I am currently a junior in a 5 year year accelerated BS/MS program majoring in Computational Applied Mathematics, and minoring in Economics.
My problem is my schools reputation, or serious lack there of. I attend a state school with little to no reputation. I chose this school because I was recruited for soccer, and received 2 different full academic scholarships, which made it seem like I'd be a fool to not get a masters in 5 years, and not pay a dime. and at the time I really didn't know what I wanted to do with my life.
Over the past year or so I have become extremely interested in a career in finance especially the more analytic fields such as trading or quant finance. I really want to pursue a career in finance however, i could not land any finance related internship for this upcoming summer and I am afraid full time recruiting will be even worse. I have a really good summer internship in high performance computing/physics and have a 3.8 cumm so I can't help but believe my school's name is what is turning my resume into toilet paper because I have a decent amount of connections and I am still coming up short.
So finally to my question(sorry for the long post)... Should I try to go straight into a mfin or mfe right from undergrad here or just suck it up and finish out my 5 years. My fear is that if I do the masters here then want to do another one, having two masters, one from a no name school, and no work exp will really kill my chances for full time jobs.
I know I can get the test scores needed to get into highly reputed masters programs, I just do not know the extent to which this school's name will weigh me down...if I knew I wanted to be in finance in high school I would be reading the post from a target school :(
Sorry for the post and thanks for any help/advice...its much appreciated
Stick with it. Its free. You cant argue with that. When you finish, take the tests and apply to MSF or Work Experience...but either way finish it.
Network Network Network. Also keep trying at those internships because I know its damn near impossible to get into a decent firm w/o any work experience.
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