I am just starting on my path to Wall Street. I was looking for any knowledge or advise anyone could give me. I know this sounds like a bad start but I am currently at Lone Star community college to do my first 2 years/ basics. Next I plan to go to Sam Houston State University for my next 2 years. Then finally go to Rice university in Houston to finish my masters degree. Right now I am on a degree plan for finance. Is this a good goal? As of right now I have a 4.0 college GPA and am very good at school and I plan to stay at the top of my class in order to have a better application at the end. Will a Masters Degree from Rice University be good enough for Wall Street, or will I need to go to a better school? Also am I going towards the right degree? If not what should I study in? Also I have been looking into actual jobs and I've started leaning towards hedge funds. Is this a good thing to work with, or should I work towards a different profession. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If you want to end up on Wall St, DO NOT transfer to Sam Houstan St. Transfer to UT or A&M (or even directly to Rice) to finish your undergrad, and you might have a decent shot. Also, there is no need to plan on a masters for finance jobs.
Sam Houston State would be an absolutely horrible decision. Transfer to UT. Even if you have to take out loans, UT would give you a much better chance. I hate to knock a school, but I really do doubt that there has EVER been anyone who went to SHSU that went on to Wall Street. Even Texas Tech would be like 100x better.
I agree with what others have said. You should definitely transfer to either UT Austin, A&M, UT Dallas, or SMU. All of these schools will give you a much better chance of finding a good finance job.
Rice doesn't even have a masters in finance so I am not sure what you are talking about. They have a new energy economics program but it is likely very competitive and you would have to transfer to a better school in order to have a chance of getting in.
clearly somebody who hasn't thought enough.
SHSU is literally the closest nonprofit to a degree-mill. If you're on that caliber, you'd probably not finish advanced degrees at SMU, A&M, UT Austin or Rice...
Sorry man, SHSU is just a local school in the town I live in. I think I am on a higher caliber. Haha hopefully.
I don't care. Do as you wish.
Thank you so much!
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