<p>With this not being as common at Brown as other top-tier institutions, does anyone have advice on which major/courses are helpful? Is the COE program the best bet, or will pursuing random academic interests like math or psychology put one in a better position? Anyone have any helpful experience with Wall Street careers coming from Brown undergrads?</p>
<p>COE, Econ, Applied Math are typical. Anything quantitative is helpful.</p>
<p>Get experience. Majoring in something quantitative as wolfman says is helpful, but there are thousands of people to compete with who did the same. Go to networking events, and get summer finance-related internships.</p>
<p>I would say doing well at the internships is far more important than the major, but presumably to do well at the internships requires having skills that are more likely to be taught by certain majors.</p>
<p>There are also external programs that help for people with non-business-related majors.</p>
<p>No direct experience, but I read an article in the NY Times recently that essentially said that a large part of the reason there are fewer finance/consulting people from Brown is that there are fewer applicants, not because they are necessarily of a lesser quality.</p>
<p>Do something quantitative (but it could be CS or physics as well as econ etc.) get related internships during the summer, and if you work hard and are talented, it’ll work out.</p>
<p>Brown does see recruitment. COE+networking should put you in an ideal position.</p>
<p>for finance:
apma-econ is your best bet, but if you don’t think you’ll be able to get mostly A’s in those classes, you’re better off having a really high GPA in econ or, i suppose, COE.</p>
<p>math, csci, physics, and engineering are also recruited majors.</p>
<p>for consulting:
also, brown is one of bain’s most heavily recruited schools, so the myth about finance/consulting not being common from brown is, well, a myth.</p>
<p>Bain does consider Brown a core school but that does not mean that consulting and I-banking are the most common post-grad choices. Some other schools have much more interest when it comes to those fields, not a bad thing. Other schools may also see a wider variety of firms recruiting on campus.</p>
<p>How could I prepare freshman year for a summer internship? Certain classes, etc.?</p>