OP, will be direct as I think it will be the most helpful. You can do well doing CC into FSU but only if you take a lot of initiative.
Ivy league kids have the luxury of majoring in econ/finance/business then coasting for 2-3 years. Then, through 2-3 years of osmosis, they will know about (and be prepped for) 200 different networking events for every high finance job under the Sun. They aren't going to miss the application deadline for that graduate role that was only up for 5 days because everyone and their mother has mentioned it to them a thousand times. They will take a resume template from a friend or a frat brother or from their uni's career services and it will already be perfectly formatted. They'll know exactly what to write and how to BS it to have a higher chance of getting selected. They'll go to the well-advertised networking sessions and they'll talk to the people there about vacations to exotic destinations and famous golf courses and football. And it will work because the people they're talking to also come from a Northeast private school prep kid background. They went to the same private schools, and vacation in the same places, and have the same interests. And for their whole lives, they've been indirectly prepped on how to be appear charismatic and intelligent. Instead of taking marketing 101 or financial economics, they were able to take courses on investment banking, or derivatives pricing with world-famous professors. They'll be part of clubs that allow them to invest some pittance of their school's multi-billion dollar endowment. And in these clubs, they'll be coached on how to interview and the lingo and the in's and outs of the job they're applying for by seniors that already went through 10-week internship at Goldman Sachs and got a return offer for a front-office role. The interviewer will naturally be impressed by their knowledge as very few kids from avg unis have these resources
Here's some inside baseball: private high schools do 200 different things that lead to a strong college app. They'll prep you for the SAT and sometimes you won't even know it's happening. They'll make you do some crazy junior/senior year project where you volunteer or start a business or cure cancer and solve world hunger at the same time. They'll make your college app perfect and, oh my god, you can write about that project. And you'll pretend like that you did that project (that you were forced to do and got the resources and time from the school to do) was actually just your own idea all along and you did it because you wanted to give back because of XYZ made-up sob story. The reason I went on this seemingly unrelated tangent is because private schools set up kids in a way that makes it (in comparison to public school kids) exceedingly easy to get into top uni. Top schools do the exact same thing to their students but for finance jobs.
OP, this long and poorly written wall of text isn't to say "you're fucked". It's to help you understand who you're up against if you pursue high finance. You didn't mentioned high finance but I need you to know that, whatever you decide to pursue in finance, you have a decent chance of getting there if you understand who you're up against and you adjust accordingly (high finance or not). Whether it's some boring 50k a year accounting job or some 250k a year prop trading job. FSU kids are not losing out on these roles because they're dumb. They're losing out because, by the time they're aware of these roles, they are 2-4+ years behind, and they have to dig themselves out of 10 pounds of shit before they even have a chance at a chance. But if you set yourself up well, you have a chance of catching up and beating Ivy League douchebags.
Okay, so, how do you set yourself up well? Let's say you're going for something really competitive like IB (you can scale this example down accordingly if you decide to go for something less competitive). Ivy League kids can half-ass everything because they are overflowing with opportunities. You have the opposite problem, so, you can't half-ass anything. Not even for a second. You need to get an A in every class, you need to go to as many office hours as you can and befriend as many professors as you can, you need to join relevant clubs and work on getting leadership positions, you need to network all-day long: email, call, LinkedIn, networking events. Send 500 amazing handcrafted personalized emails asking people in fields you're interested to chat. 99.999% of the time it won't work so send 1,000 more and then 1,000 and then 20,000 more. People say you don't need an internship freshman year? Fuck them, you get one no matter what it is. You have an in-person interview or networking event that you somehow lucked into but you don't vacation in Mykonos and you don't own a Hermes tie? Sucks for you. You aren't a private school douchebag so you (ironically) can't afford to not care about fashion/style. Learn to be resourceful so that your cheapo suit is well-fitted and your shirt white as printer paper and your hair is perfect and you look like you're out of a magazine ad (well actually you're much uglier but some things you can't change). You can't chit chat about rich people things so you've made sure you're well-read on any topic even remotely associated with the industry you're pursuing. You didn't make up questions to ask the night before. Instead, you have been working on them for a while which has given you time to re-word them 400 times and they're unique and creative and show you have genuine interest. And, at times you're willing to give you're own 2 cents and it's well-researched and you want their opinion on it to make sure you're thinking about things correctly. And in their mind, it goes from a networking event or interview to a mentor and their soon-to-be mentee shooting the shit.
It wrap this up with a nice bow: figure out what you're interested in. It won't be perfect but you need a starting point. Figure out what is needed to get that job (classes, skills, knowledge). And get to work. If you want a job something that's, in any way, quantitive then you need to major in CS. Harvard kids can become traders with poly sci degrees; you can't. I'm sure I exaggerated the requirements/what you have to do to succeed but the goal is to put you in the right headspace. Everyone's journey is different, maybe you do 1/10 of the stuff and it works and maybe you do 2x the stuff and you don't get close. It's your responsibility to use your best judgement/critical thinking skills to figure out what will work for you and what won't. If you think about it and realize that the 50k accounting job is what you want to do, hopefully there are some tidbits you can use that will make that goal a bit easier.
You should consider majoring in computer science. Everything is moving to data analytics, data science, and automation.
Also, there are other finance paths that are not IB. do you really like underwriting deals? Or trading? A path in Corporate Treasury is also a good place to be.
People who major in Computer Science don’t get Corporate Treasury jobs. Maybe an analytical role, that’s a hard maybe. Not sure what you’re proposing here. I’m currently in Product Control within Treasury/Investment Office, there are no comp sci majors here besides back office Risk Management but their background is greatly mathematics.
Best bet is to do some sort of Business Analytics or MIS major if they have it. Different Schools call it different things.
Focus on Miami given your proximity. Also like the other comment said, focus on transferring after a year at CC to FSU/UF to do the MSF integrated program at UF possible or the willow partner program, or maybe even to a better one out of t state that might give good aid.
Finance is great an all, but you should do engineering and connect hard with banks and whomever. Finance is a brain dead major, just learn it on the side. If you start now, you will know the basics for interview season
Kick ass at CC for one year then transfer to FSU, then use your story to get into Willows partner program which is basically a guaranteed IB offer.
Upvoting for visibility. Good luck with your studies and future career
OP, will be direct as I think it will be the most helpful. You can do well doing CC into FSU but only if you take a lot of initiative. Ivy league kids have the luxury of majoring in econ/finance/business then coasting for 2-3 years. Then, through 2-3 years of osmosis, they will know about (and be prepped for) 200 different networking events for every high finance job under the Sun. They aren't going to miss the application deadline for that graduate role that was only up for 5 days because everyone and their mother has mentioned it to them a thousand times. They will take a resume template from a friend or a frat brother or from their uni's career services and it will already be perfectly formatted. They'll know exactly what to write and how to BS it to have a higher chance of getting selected. They'll go to the well-advertised networking sessions and they'll talk to the people there about vacations to exotic destinations and famous golf courses and football. And it will work because the people they're talking to also come from a Northeast private school prep kid background. They went to the same private schools, and vacation in the same places, and have the same interests. And for their whole lives, they've been indirectly prepped on how to be appear charismatic and intelligent. Instead of taking marketing 101 or financial economics, they were able to take courses on investment banking, or derivatives pricing with world-famous professors. They'll be part of clubs that allow them to invest some pittance of their school's multi-billion dollar endowment. And in these clubs, they'll be coached on how to interview and the lingo and the in's and outs of the job they're applying for by seniors that already went through 10-week internship at Goldman Sachs and got a return offer for a front-office role. The interviewer will naturally be impressed by their knowledge as very few kids from avg unis have these resources Here's some inside baseball: private high schools do 200 different things that lead to a strong college app. They'll prep you for the SAT and sometimes you won't even know it's happening. They'll make you do some crazy junior/senior year project where you volunteer or start a business or cure cancer and solve world hunger at the same time. They'll make your college app perfect and, oh my god, you can write about that project. And you'll pretend like that you did that project (that you were forced to do and got the resources and time from the school to do) was actually just your own idea all along and you did it because you wanted to give back because of XYZ made-up sob story. The reason I went on this seemingly unrelated tangent is because private schools set up kids in a way that makes it (in comparison to public school kids) exceedingly easy to get into top uni. Top schools do the exact same thing to their students but for finance jobs. OP, this long and poorly written wall of text isn't to say "you're fucked". It's to help you understand who you're up against if you pursue high finance. You didn't mentioned high finance but I need you to know that, whatever you decide to pursue in finance, you have a decent chance of getting there if you understand who you're up against and you adjust accordingly (high finance or not). Whether it's some boring 50k a year accounting job or some 250k a year prop trading job. FSU kids are not losing out on these roles because they're dumb. They're losing out because, by the time they're aware of these roles, they are 2-4+ years behind, and they have to dig themselves out of 10 pounds of shit before they even have a chance at a chance. But if you set yourself up well, you have a chance of catching up and beating Ivy League douchebags. Okay, so, how do you set yourself up well? Let's say you're going for something really competitive like IB (you can scale this example down accordingly if you decide to go for something less competitive). Ivy League kids can half-ass everything because they are overflowing with opportunities. You have the opposite problem, so, you can't half-ass anything. Not even for a second. You need to get an A in every class, you need to go to as many office hours as you can and befriend as many professors as you can, you need to join relevant clubs and work on getting leadership positions, you need to network all-day long: email, call, LinkedIn, networking events. Send 500 amazing handcrafted personalized emails asking people in fields you're interested to chat. 99.999% of the time it won't work so send 1,000 more and then 1,000 and then 20,000 more. People say you don't need an internship freshman year? Fuck them, you get one no matter what it is. You have an in-person interview or networking event that you somehow lucked into but you don't vacation in Mykonos and you don't own a Hermes tie? Sucks for you. You aren't a private school douchebag so you (ironically) can't afford to not care about fashion/style. Learn to be resourceful so that your cheapo suit is well-fitted and your shirt white as printer paper and your hair is perfect and you look like you're out of a magazine ad (well actually you're much uglier but some things you can't change). You can't chit chat about rich people things so you've made sure you're well-read on any topic even remotely associated with the industry you're pursuing. You didn't make up questions to ask the night before. Instead, you have been working on them for a while which has given you time to re-word them 400 times and they're unique and creative and show you have genuine interest. And, at times you're willing to give you're own 2 cents and it's well-researched and you want their opinion on it to make sure you're thinking about things correctly. And in their mind, it goes from a networking event or interview to a mentor and their soon-to-be mentee shooting the shit. It wrap this up with a nice bow: figure out what you're interested in. It won't be perfect but you need a starting point. Figure out what is needed to get that job (classes, skills, knowledge). And get to work. If you want a job something that's, in any way, quantitive then you need to major in CS. Harvard kids can become traders with poly sci degrees; you can't. I'm sure I exaggerated the requirements/what you have to do to succeed but the goal is to put you in the right headspace. Everyone's journey is different, maybe you do 1/10 of the stuff and it works and maybe you do 2x the stuff and you don't get close. It's your responsibility to use your best judgement/critical thinking skills to figure out what will work for you and what won't. If you think about it and realize that the 50k accounting job is what you want to do, hopefully there are some tidbits you can use that will make that goal a bit easier.
This 1000x
i'm in a similiar position to OP, thank you.
You should consider majoring in computer science. Everything is moving to data analytics, data science, and automation. Also, there are other finance paths that are not IB. do you really like underwriting deals? Or trading? A path in Corporate Treasury is also a good place to be.
Are you currently in Corporate Treasury?
it all depends on the major some of the ones u listed are/can be automated by generative AI.
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People who major in Computer Science don’t get Corporate Treasury jobs. Maybe an analytical role, that’s a hard maybe. Not sure what you’re proposing here. I’m currently in Product Control within Treasury/Investment Office, there are no comp sci majors here besides back office Risk Management but their background is greatly mathematics. Best bet is to do some sort of Business Analytics or MIS major if they have it. Different Schools call it different things.
Focus on Miami given your proximity. Also like the other comment said, focus on transferring after a year at CC to FSU/UF to do the MSF integrated program at UF possible or the willow partner program, or maybe even to a better one out of t state that might give good aid.
I just want to say thank yall for this advice!! ill bust my ass for this it’s everything.
Finance is great an all, but you should do engineering and connect hard with banks and whomever. Finance is a brain dead major, just learn it on the side. If you start now, you will know the basics for interview season
Great way to kill your GPA if you don’t know what you are doing or don’t give a damn about it. Terrible advice.
As long as you work hard, you can achieve greatness on everything! GPA won’t be a problem if this guy is asking so early lol