What should I major in? Finance+accounting or something more quantitative

I've heard that if you're at a target, it doesn't matter what you major in. However, at non-targets they prefer more quantitative majors. I'm a freshman at Emory and I'm wondering if a finance+ accounting/consulting major would suffice for IB and consulting or if I should do something more quantitative. Also outside of that I'm currently doing BBA+QSS(kinda like data science) however I feel like the QSS classes might have a negative impact on my GPA. However it does give me the ability to be quantitatively adept. So I'm wondering if I should major in QSS too and gain those quantitative skills or just stick to finance+accounting. These days tech people are in high demand so I guess it may give me some sort of boost for that but for now my goal is mainly IB/Consulting so should I do it for the potential hit in GPA and gain in skills. Or do I have to do it to have a chance from Emory for these roles. Any advice would be appreciated!

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If you want to do IB, do finance and accounting. That is, unless you’re particularly keen on studying something else only because you truly want to. I really don’t think “it’s better to do a quantitative major at a non target” is true one single bit. That’s not to say something like CS is not a useful skill to have, but you very rarely see those people in ib

 

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