CFM vs AFM vs BBA/CS programs at waterloo

I am looking to apply to UW. My top two programs that I am applying to are FARM and BBA/Math. I was deciding between cfm, afm, and bba/cs for my third. I have heard that the waterloo accounting school has a high placement rate for internships and ive seen posts that show students interning at Goldman Sachs and other bulge brackets. I was wondering what program/school I would need to join to land these internships. I also heard that cfm leans more towards cs while afm leans more towards accounting. I don’t want to be an accountant after I graduate and id much rather get into high finance or fintech but I heard that afm has better internships. Given this I was wondering what my 3rd program choice should be. 

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FARM student here. You are right. CFM leans more on quant side and AFM on IB/accounting. Farm is somewhere in between but still more aligned to quant/SnT. I know people from both cfm and farm who has worked in quants/SnT/IBD. However Afm is mainly aligned towards IBD with some people breaking into SnT

 
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