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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1732 here.

so the path would be applied math at atop 25 (preferrably top 10 school) -> use the alum database to reach out to employees at the aforementioned firms to set up phone chats after her first semester at school, join the quant finance club, first summer paid research internship at a university in applied math/quant finance, fall sophomore year - really work the network at on-campus recruiting to land interviews at trading shops, and each subsequent summer intern in either trading or something tangential to that so you are a strong candidate come senior fall recruiting.[/quote]
How much does the prestige level of the school matter?  Will top-50 do, maybe one that has some Wall St recruiting on campus?

Major:  suppose the school doesn't have an official "applied mathematics" major.  Will a regular math major + whatever extra courses also work?

Can a math/physics double major get on a quant path?[/quote]

Hey sorry about the delay in response. Hope you still see this.

Regular math will work supplemented with rigorous exposure to statistics and pick up a few econometrics classes from the econ department.

Prestige does matter in finance unfortunately - though less so in the quant world - thankfully. Looking at the top 50 list, pretty much all of them will have prof's in the math/econ department that do research in financial asset forecasting which she should try to get on a research assistant.

Yes a math/physics double major is a very common profile to get on the quant path.

A higher ranked school will make it a bit easier for recruiting but top 50 won't stop you. breaking into the quant world is a lot more egalitarian than traditional IB or MBB consulting. She'll just have to pound the pavement harder and bolster her resume with more research. [/quote]

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