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I meant this mostly as a joke, Wharton kids don't get PhD's. Though here, the really smart kids do go to quant finance, so maybe we're just playing at a lower p
by huac 10y ago
I meant this mostly as a joke, Wharton kids don't get PhD's. Though here, the really smart kids do go to quant finance, so maybe we're just playing at a lower part of the curve than MIT.
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoI was a quant trader and hired quants out of MIT, et cetera. I never found them as brilliant as MIT's proper engineers nor as creative (or savvy) as other schools' proper financiers. (Part of the effect may arise from pure finance aspirants focussing less on their studies than research aspirants.)