Hedge Fund/Econ

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>I am a senior in highschool and will be majoring in econ next fall at one of the top economics programs in the world. My dream is to someday become a hedge fund manager. What must I do to succeed in econ besides earning high marks from professors? Should I be starting now looking at internships though I have no background in econ? Are there tricks to breaking into the field? Or should I just relax for now? Though I have not taken AP Econ I have taken a number of challenging math courses and enjoy both international relations + math. </p>

<p>Please give me your input, thank you!</p>

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<p>Take as much math as possible. Math and comp sci skills are the two most important criteria for getting a job in the hedge fund industry (finance is good too).</p>

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<p>Econ is becoming more and more common, and thus more useless. Hedge funds prefer math majors to econ majors, although you must know something about finance.</p>