Need help regarding choosing undergraduate degree

[Merged]

Hello,
im a student in the last year of my school and im planning to move into quant field later in my future. Im really confused which undergrad degree to pursue. Im planning to study in the UK, my choices for university are Imperial College, Warwick, LSE and 2 other uni which i didnt select at the time of writing this. I would really appreciate some help as i feel really lost in my options and i dont have anyone to talk to regarding these matters. Im also trying for USA and Australia universities like UNSW,Monash, University of Sydney or melbourne.
I looked into data science as undergrad but some people were suggesting me EEE and others.

Thanks for reading my post!!!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Math/Applied Math/Stats with a minor in CS. Take some quant finance course (John Hull level) to learn about options theory, etc.
There are people with engineering degrees that break into MFE programs but with the hindsight, they would prefer to take more math and programming courses.
Make sure to get your hands dirty with projects, financial data, coding and see how it works in real life. Participate in trading competitions. There are dozens of them every year.

 

[DominiConnor]

The game theory of UK admissions can be daunting, especially with the DEI policies of some UK unis.
First up you should not use up one of your slots on somewhere you don't want to go, sounds obvious put that way but many do.
I must with all due respect ask why the fuck you want to be a Quant ?
You're 16/17 no way have you any idea what you want to be with any such degree of precision.
Your first job in this field is something like 5-6 years away , maybe 10 if you take PhD.
Things will change.
So will you, changing yourself being the most rational purpose of spending >50,000 and 4 years on uni.
Therefore you must start thinking like Quant even if you may not ever be.
An intuition behind the Black Scholes formula for pricing options is that the value of an option increases with the degree of variance in outcomes.
Or in more normal English the less you know about what might happen, the more you want to be the one making choices when it does happen.
@Andy Nguyen makes a valid point about programming as it is a way to stand out among the horde of bright young things, but also if you go in another direction it does a lot for your optionality.
That being said, the teaching of hardcore programming universities is at best mediocre.
A superior way to increasing optionality is to do what my daughter did and write actual code to do hard things.
That being said it is a harder path.
You need to get some objective advice on how good you are at maths. You need to get it now.
Without that you're not making good life changing decisions.
But assuming youre in the top 1-2% of your year then it's Imperial then Warwick then LSE
If you're top 10% LSE, Warwick and put Imperial and UCL as options for if you do better than expected.
If you're not doing double maths then it's a different game.

As you have no one to talk to, might I invite you to the London Quant Group for the Christmas debate ?
It will be held at Blackrock hosted by their Chief Risk Officer whose job is to ensure the 13.46 trillion with a T they manage doesn't get lost.