Double Major/Major+Minor

Finance freshman here, interested in trading and more speicifcally towards commodity, risk and derivative trading. I have a pretty good base of knowledge from my random reading and practical from trading.

Would love to know what would be better? A finance major + statistics minor, Finance major + economics/econometrics minor or straight up a double major in either of them. I love math and I'm caught in between these choices.

Personally, I want to try to aim for HF/Quant shops but at the same time would love to have a net to fall back on if that doesn't work so I can just get to IB/PE.

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If you want to aim for HF/Quant then double in applied math and stats. I would just drop the finance major altogether, it will open 0 doors that a double math / stats could not. Same can’t be said the other way around though. If you can get good grades doing these majors you’ll have your pick of sell side/buy side internships. These majors will force you to learn to code anyway and unless you want to be a dev then there’s no reason to go compsci.

 

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