Help with Financial Engineering prep courses!
Hi, my name is David, I'd like to know if my resume is good enough to meet the requirements of Financial Engineering School. I am a Freshman at Mississippi State University, I am majoring in Banking and Finance, and Economics. Also, I am minoring in software engineering, and Math and statistics.
The reason why I want to study Financial engineering is because i want to become an investment banker, or a quantitative strategist/high frequency trader. Could someone help me with this matter? What should i do to improve my resume?
These are the classes i plan to take:
Pre-Business Core
Principles of financial accounting
Principles of managerial accounting
The legal environment of business
Business Statistical methods I
Principles of microeconomics
Principles of macroeconomics
Upper Business Core
Management Information systems
Business Statistical methods II
Financial systems
Financial Management
Principles of Management and production
Organization Communications
Principles of Marketing
Business Policy
Banking and Finance Classes
Financial Markets
Intermediate Financial Management
Senior Seminar in Finance
Investments
International Financial Management
Managerial Economics
Banking Management
Advanced Bank Management
Working Capital Management
Section analysis and portfolio management
Economics Classes
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Economic Forecasting
International Economic Relations
Introduction to Public Finance
Problems in State and Local Finance
Economic Analysis and Forecasting
Mathematics and Statistics Classes
Calculus I
Calculus II
Calculus III
Calculus IV
Linear algebra
Linear Programming
Differential Equations I
Differential Equations II
Numerical Analysis I
Numerical Analysis II
Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
Intro To Mod Algebra
Discrete Mathematics
Introduction to Statistics
Introduction to Statistical inference
Introduction to Nonparametric Methods
Introduction to probability
Introduction to Mathematical statistics I
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II
Data analysis I
Data Analysis II
Software engineering Classes
Introduction to computer programming
Intermediate computer programming
Data structure and analysis of algorithms
Discrete structures
Operating systems
Introduction to analysis of Algorithms
Introduction to software engineering
Distributed Client/Server Programming
Designing Parallel Algorithms
Sigh... I hope you're trolling, but if not...
Okay, so you just listed of some 60-ish (didn't bother counting) courses -- each of which is most likely 3 to 4 credits at a normal university. These classes alone are quite literally twice the number of classes you'll need to graduate. If you honestly think you can survive and want to take 200-220ish credits, then more power to you -- you just won't have a life.
Go out and live life a little bit. Take some of the classes on this list that actually interest you, get involved in extracurriculars, and find yourself -- that's what college is for. What makes you think that you want to be a high frequency trader / quant / whatever?
Do not get an MFE if you want to be a banker. Decide what you want to do first. Just make sure you have great grades, especially in your math and stats courses.
You failed at the anonymous game...
I want to become a quant because it is a booming career with good salary expectations, also my father is a financial analyst and i really like what he does. I really like the prestige the careers in finance have. I am assuming i will finish everything in 4.5 or 5 years. I think i could sacrifice entertainment time for a few years to study hard so then i can have a prestigious and very profitable life.
Prestige? So you can say you have a bigger E-dick than me?
Don't do finance just for prestige and money. You'll be miserable.
Take it from someone who's done quant work. It isn't sexy at all. I didn't like doing math all day and find the big picture work in consulting much more interesting. Math is fascinating. Financial math, not so much.
wtf you can't take all those classes in undergrade and wth is calc 4 ?
Scrap all the business courses.
Calc 4 (at shitty schools) is basically the equivalent of Calc 3 in regular schools.
It's because most shitty schools declare pre-calculus as "Calc 1" hence therefore, they have 4 calculus courses.
At least this is based on what my friend at his state school told me - his Calc 3 was equivalent to my Calc 2 class.
Wow "Chubbybunny" you are so offensive, it is surprising that a person like you assisting a top university (assuming you actually do) uses that kind of language. It is not how you start, it's how you finish what matters. Besides, if you do not have any relevant information concerning this forum, or any constructive criticism adressing these questions please do not comment.
Calc 4 is usually the 2nd half of calc 3 at most schools.
Calc 3 at most schools = One semester of Calc 3 (Partial diffs) + one semester of Calc 4 (all the integration stuff) at some schools
At my school, we had Analysis I and Analysis II. Each was a full year, and by the end of the second course, we had covered basic point set topology, tensor algebra, and integration on manifolds.
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