Listing SATs, SAT II's, GRE's, courses taken, individual grades for specific courses, etc.?

I'm aiming for an internship at a quantitative prop trading firm as an undergrad. Could anyone who has experience with the recruitment process for places like this please chime in:

Should I list any of these stats on a resume? - SAT: 2310, SAT II's, 800 math, GRE's: 800q, 710v. Since the math is elementary in these standardized tests, would the inclusion of these stats be mocked at? - Listing specific technical courses taken? For example I've taken quite a few graduate courses in financial engineering, stochastic processes, nonlinear programming, bayesian statistics, statistical modeling, algorithms and data structures, etc... should I list all this or would this be somehow detrimental?

I've also designed and implemented various models for predicting trade impact costs, intra day stochastic volatility with tick data, etc... should I list an overview and backtesting performance of these models even though I've never had the opportunity to actually use them?

Thanks for all the help guys

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List the shit you designed if you can do so in one or two lines while describing what they do/how you did it/why etc

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dogglefoxI'm aiming for an internship at a quantitative prop trading firm as an undergrad. Could anyone who has experience with the recruitment process for places like this please chime in:

Should I list any of these stats on a resume? - SAT: 2310, SAT II's, 800 math, GRE's: 800q, 710v. Since the math is elementary in these standardized tests, would the inclusion of these stats be mocked at? - Listing specific technical courses taken? For example I've taken quite a few graduate courses in financial engineering, stochastic processes, nonlinear programming, bayesian statistics, statistical modeling, algorithms and data structures, etc... should I list all this or would this be somehow detrimental?

I've also designed and implemented various models for predicting trade impact costs, intra day stochastic volatility with tick data, etc... should I list an overview and backtesting performance of these models even though I've never had the opportunity to actually use them?

Thanks for all the help guys

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