<p>Well, we assumed you want to do banking because you posted the thread under the
“INVESTMENT BANKING” section of CC.</p>
<p>To echo others before, unless you are very well connected, I don’t see how you can skip the number crunching part of finance before you go into management.</p>
<p>Anyways, good luck. Wish you the best.</p>
<p>“I do not wish to be an analyst mucking around in excel from 7-10 for the first two years out of school, that is not who I am and will never strive to be that. I am the type of person who can act on the numbers once they are crunched by those excel people.”</p>
<p>I find this particular statement especially ridiculous for many reasons. I’m sure other finance students agree.</p>
<p>You interned at a top hedgefund in NYC between freshman and sophomore year? In this economy? You’re probably a lot better connected than most people looking to go into finance. I still can’t imagine any entry level jobs that don’t consist of excel and/or powerpoint. If you can find one please let us know because I don’t know anyone who enjoys being on excel 8+ hours a day. I’ve talked to friends working for banks, PE, hedgefunds, consulting, government, NGO, and random office jobs. All of us are working a decent amount on excel.</p>
<p>About calculus, I couldn’t imagine my sophomore level economics classes without an understanding of basic calculus. I’ve also been able to better understand some of the business and stat courses I have taken because of calculus. A knowledge of calc isn’t necessary and you can still get As in those classes and take away a decent amount of information. However, I believe that you’ll be missing out. It’s like reading a book in its original language. If you read an english translation you can get the plot and other stuff, but if you read it in the original language you are able to see exactly what the author tried to communicate in the original message.</p>
<p>So you want to go straight to HF? Very few people do that out of undergrad, especially now that the number of funds has significantly decreased. Is that what your intention is?</p>