BA vs BS in CS
Hey guys,
I am interested in working for a firm on Wall Street as an analyst(writing code, creating models, etc.) and I am a freshman. I am considering switching from the engineering school of my university to the liberal arts/humanities college of my school. There I would double major in CS( getting a Bachelors of Arts, which basically means I would be taking less CS, math, and science classes(which the Bachelors of Science in CS would have more of) and would have to take the college's general reqs for english, social sciences and others) and econ, which I am genuinely interested in. Also if I switched, my GPA would definitely increase. This one guy I talked to told me it would be better for me to keep going for the BS and try to double major in econ and get the BS. I am pretty sure this would be pretty hard, and also very stressful. But he said the BS could easily get me jobs(in tech) and that I could just network to get the analyst offers in financial firms.
A guy I know is double majoring in stat and econ and has learned a good amount of programming(R, Stata, and probably some others), so I am almost considering just switching and doing that.
Thanks.
Stick to the BS if you want to be a quant (and maybe double major in math/stats/physics), otherwise it doesnt matter
BS in CS vs BA in CS (Originally Posted: 11/13/2016)
Hey guys,
I am interested in working for a firm on Wall Street as an analyst(writing code, creating models, etc.) and I am a freshman. I am considering switching from the engineering school of my university to the liberal arts/humanities college of my school. There I would double major in CS( getting a Bachelors of Arts, which basically means I would be taking less CS, math, and science classes(which the Bachelors of Science in CS would have more of) and would have to take the college's general reqs for english, social sciences and others) and econ, which I am genuinely interested in. Also if I switched, my GPA would definitely increase. This one guy I talked to told me it would be better for me to keep going for the BS and try to double major in econ and get the BS. I am pretty sure this would be pretty hard, and also very stressful. But he said the BS could easily get me jobs(in tech) and that I could just network to get the analyst offers in financial firms.
A guy I know is double majoring in stat and econ and has learned a good amount of programming(R, Stata, and probably some others), so I am almost considering just switching and doing that.
And just for context I go to the University of Virginia.
Thanks.
Wahoowa! Just get in the McIntire if you go to UVA, it is one of the biggest feeders into IB lol
He doesn't want to do IB - "writing code, creating models, etc." It sounds like his interests are in being a quant.
Exactly right
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