Boutique private wealth management/operations or Summer Business Program?

chuck001:

Hey I just want to know when you go to interviews do they give you crap for being a poli sci major? I'm at a non target in nyc that is mainly a business school, I'm wondering if majoring in poli sci will raise eyebrows when I go to interview for something like wealth management ?

Dude, I see u been bumping ~2 year old topics, but I'll answer you anyway. Depends on what your story is, ie how you decided to try finance. Boutique PWM places didn't ask. Tho here's a piece of advice: you want to do PWM because you want to someday own/run your own business, NOT because you wanna do PE/HF/IBD cuz few ever go from PWM to those. If u give them the latter answer, they'll respond: "so why didn't you go be a financial analyst?" And you don't wanna say "I didn't get recruited/I couldn't get one" because thats like saying "I wasn't good enough." Remember, in PWM you are little better than a salesman in a Best Buy selling to mom, pop, and grannies.

You might also look at a trading arcade. Arcades might ask how you got interested, and know your market (levels of indeces, prices of stocks/commodities, etc.). And some places did ask why poli sci, an ops position. Have a good answer, and have a good backstory about why you majored in it in the first place, what you wanted to do. And don't let your answer be "because no one would hire me at a think-tank," or "law school was too expensive for me" because that makes the discussion about money.