Merits of Middlebury-Columbia 3-2 Econ/FE towards becoming a portfolio manager
I am currently a high school senior, and I will be attending Middlebury College next fall. I have always enjoyed following the markets, and making predictions. In terms of subjects, my favorites would be Economics, Math, and History. With these two things combined, I am truly interested in finance (so i'm not just an ignorant high schooler solely interested in making money). Personally, IB sounds terrible, and the whole deal-making side of finance (IB, VC, PE) sounds far less interesting to me than public markets. Thus, my career goal is to be some sort of portfolio manager in public markets (preferably hedge fund).
My question is: to be most likely to achieve this goal, would it be worthwhile to do the Middlebury-Columbia 3-2 program (3 years and BA @ Midd, 2 years and BS @ Columbia) and get a BS in financial engineering from Columbia with a BA in Econ from Midd ---- Or ---- would it be equally beneficial to just double major in Econ and something quantitative?
Keep in mind: 1) Entry into Columbia engineering is guaranteed as long as some basic requirements @ Midd are met. 2) I don't want to be a back-office quant, but would be using the BS in FE to help break into industry and have more education in finance. 3) I am legitimately interested in the courses offered in the BS in FE and not wouldn't just do it to have a degree in something finance. 4) I plan on getting some combo of CFA, MBA (finance), MS (finance, FE, mathematical Finance) after whatever I end up doing undergrad.
Thanks