<p>Hi. I want to transfer to Wharton as a sophomore next year, as I was turned down ED. I ultimately want to do business in the future.</p>
<p>Right now, I plan on attending Rutgers U. I'm not sure what I should do, do arts&sciences the first year with economics courses, or whether i should go do engineering or math major. I know hedge funds and investment banks need strong quantitative ppl, but I also want to give myself a chance at a transfer and have a sky-high GPA next year and probably free time to do some leadership stuff.</p>
<p>If you are smart enough you should be able to have a sky-high GPA in a quant major and do leadership at the same time. Why not go to Berkeley or UCLA?</p>
<p>I went straight into a hedge fund with just an undergrad degree in Econ and concentration in Math. But I don't understand your question entirely. In your first year you really don't have to pick a major. It might help set your schedule but you can easily fill up your first year with typical college requirements and base courses. If you're really serious about wanting to transfer after the first year you should focus on those kinds of core courses that you'll need at either school, so at least they can transfer over and be applied to your degree. For instance whether you choose to do econ or math/engineering you'll need some of the same math courses, science requirements, humanities requirements, etc. Ultimately as far as which degree will help you more in getting into a hedge fund it would be the math degree. My personal feeling is a math degree (as an undergrad) is the single best major nowadays to land a good starting job on Wall St. There just arent' enough math majors, a math or physics degree still stands out.</p>
<p>I would agree that a math or physics major, while demonstrating some general business acumen (maybe an internship or other EC involvement), would be the single most impressive course of study to have to land a Wall St job. However, these are two of the toughest majors there are, so I don't necessarily think that a 2.4 GPA in math or physics is better than a 3.4 GPA in economics or finance as far as getting a top job.</p>
<p>If you are transferring after one year, your GPA at Rutgers won't matter one bit when you are applying for jobs after college. </p>
<p>And SilverSpy, why would a math degree be better than a very math-intensive engineering major such as Electrical & Computer Engineering or Computer Science? I have no idea what I want to do after I graduate (just finishing up my second semester, will graduate after 5 more [a semester early]), but I am majoring in ECE. I love math and computer science though too so I am planning on taking electives in that (have already done multivariable calc, differential equations, linear algebra this summer, and registered for discrete structures (CS) for next semester). I'm just curious how a pure math or physics major would really have an advantage if I decided to try and go into finance or whatever.</p>
<p>No offence to the OP, but if you got rejected ED from Wharton- you have a very small chance at entering for sophomore year. Since they didnt even defer you - you were not in strong consideration for being accepted. </p>
<p>Also, you will not have any new grades to submit since you havn't yet completed a full semester of college behind you. </p>
<p>That being said: Why not try for somewhere else? So many people have gone on to be successful from a plethora of schools. Just because your not at the number 1 school for a major doesnt mean you cant study it elsewhere (and still be recruited for whatever field you want to get into)</p>