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Thanks a lot for the info

Hey just a question about the field, I understand most of the jobs are on wall street if I'm a Canadian citizen is there any chance employers in the states would hire me, or is the paperwork too much? does it make a difference if i do grad school in the states? keep in mind I'm still in...

I mean I'm guessing the answer would be no you can't but I figure it would be worth asking anyway looking to get into quantitative analysis

Thanks so much for the replies Twofish. One more thing- would you say more difficult courses or the ability to branch out (as you said, take writing, history, philosophy, etc.) is more important? I could take the absolute hardest program and have it be extremely focused, or take a less intense...

I'm already in a university. It's not especially good. Can anyone answer my specific question above about the various math degrees I'm considering?

Thanks so much! Ok, now I understand that there really are no sets of rules on what I need.. but when you say get a good Undergraduate degree, I have quite a few options. I can take a 4 year applied math program, or a more intense math honors degree with an 'applied stream' or 'pure math...

Thank you for the reply. All I've read about the different types of quantitative analyst jobs was at http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf Basically I'm just attracted to being able to learn difficult math in undergrad and get a career applying it to finance using CS techniques The...

IE. What should I take for undergrad? Pure math or applied math? Physics? Do I need a masters in mathematical finance, or financial engineering or something similar? Do I need a PHD after the masters? Can I JUST get the PHD and skip the MSC?

Ok so I started this year as a pre-health major so I took the non-major physics classes (non calc based) and enjoyed them so much I want to take the calc based classes and start anew with physics next year. I did mechanics in semester 1, and E&M and optics and briefly touched on modern physics...

Excellent post thank you so much for typing that up!

How "sure" a job is quant? So I would like to do a PhD in physics when I am done my undergrad, this is something that I personally want to accomplish because I really love the field and want to satisfy my own curiosity. But of course I want to learn more about my future AFTER the degree as...

I can't even claim to understand 'spin' as a property (even after reading that big thread about it :P) but I'm sure with the amount of discussion that generated, this could be worth talking about http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/spin.cfm

So, its kind of a hard decision, just looking for opinions. I assume its more suited to theoretical stuff than Honors Physics, but if you just take Honors Physics will it still teach the mathematical methods necessary if one decides to go into theoretical physics? One major difference I've...

You...you might want to reconsider North Korea.

I'm actually not sure why I said admissions O_o I didn't mean to. I'll edit the post.