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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best major for people not smart enough to do math or physics and not invested/intellectual enough to excel in history or the humanities. [/quote]

Best major for those who want a job after graduation perhaps. [/quote]
[b]Any math major is better at a finance job than an Econ major.
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It’s cute that Econ majors have to pretend they do anything productive in those four years, but the truth is all these firms have to give boot camps on trading or whatever investment strategy they use anyway to their new hires.

Econ is a great degree for people who are just smart enough but have no passions and are too lazy to try anything that doesn’t have a simple path.[/quote]

This is untrue. It may be relevant for quant jobs but there is a whole universe of non-quant jobs (esp at the banks) where they are looking for more skills than doing advanced math. Most banks these days are doing limited “trading or whatever investment strategy.”

There is a reason these institutions recruit at business schools, SLACs, etc.[/quote] Those places don't care whether you majored in econ or history or communications as long as you went to the right school. Bonus points for being an athlete, 0 bonus points for being an econ major.[/quote]

Right, that’s why there are so many econ majors there.

But I guess thanks for confirming the actual point that was being discussed, which is that it doesn’t require math.[/quote]

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