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Extra Year In Undergrad for additional Triple Major?

WeBigPimpin

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Hi,

I'm a rising sophomore, I got lucky taking so many dual credit classes in high school that credit wise I am a rising junior. My uni has a one-year math master's program that I will almost certainly get into, so it would essentially be like completing a 4-year undergraduate degree just more rigorous (3-years in undergrad plus one in grad school). But recently I have been contemplating not graduating early and doing a triple major in math, Chinese, and finance or another language. My end goal is to get into quant finance or financial engineering grad school, which path would be more beneficial to this goal?
 
Paul Lopez said:
Math, Finance/econ/business knowledge, and software engineer/programming will be your three main pillars. Zhong wen will definitely come in handy!

I'd look to make sure you have the computing/comp sci aspects of things solidified.
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My main worry about going straight to math grad school is the lack of programming experience I'll have. A lot of the math classes I'm taking are proof-based, and even if I did do computational math I'm a little worried that it'll be less valuable than computer science classes.
 
WeBigPimpin said:
My main worry about going straight to math grad school is the lack of programming experience I'll have. A lot of the math classes I'm taking are proof-based, and even if I did do computational math I'm a little worried that it'll be less valuable than computer science classes.
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Pure math is great and has its place. Make sure you do applied math courses as well so you practice both applying the math you've learned along with the programming side of things.
 
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