CFI CMSA Certificate on Resume for Target UK?

Incoming Maths student at Oxford and trying to get into either HF/IB by my 2nd year summer or hopefully 1st year summer at a boutique. I'm planning on reading investing books this summer alongside studying for some basic certificates like BMC and CFI/WSO interview prep / certification programs. I know that it's dumb to put something like "read X, Y, Z" on my resume, but is it ok to put that I am a CFI CMSA certificate holder under my "Education" or "Certificates" section in my resume? Will this ruin the Oxford Math brand image? 

I would ideally like to take my CFA L1 exam 1st year summer so I can have that, but I can't do that this summer as I'm still in high school. 

In terms of my experience section, I only have like teaching skiing and selling private lesson to clients (I'm from Canada). I also have a lot of technical projects suited for quant positions, but also want to build my IB resume hence looking into certificates. 

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