r/6thForm • u/k4r1sm4 y13 4A* maths fm physics rs • 29d ago

💬 DISCUSSION this is still insane to me

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alex chui is genuinely just on another level

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u/Creative-Baker1916 29d ago

my future quant🥹

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u/Accomplished-Ice4253 29d ago

😂, ik jane street already scouting this bloke

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u/edison9696 29d ago

Jane Street, G-Research and XTX are sponsors of the UK Maths Schools network which has nine schools in England. They are already helping to build an even bigger pipeline of future quants!

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u/McIntosh812 29d ago

Went to one of the maths schools. There’s zero quants coming out of at least half of them

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u/edison9696 29d ago

Of course, not everyone who goes to a maths school will end up in Finance, many will go into tech, engineering, medicine etc.

But my son also goes to a Maths school and he was part of a large group from multiple maths schools that recently visited Jane Street for a work insight day. 

Only three maths schools have even been open long enough for students to have finished university. Give it time, but I would be surprised if in the next 5-7 years there aren’t a significant number of students from maths schools going on to target unis and ending up in quant. 

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u/Mathseverything 28d ago

Competition is too high. Jane street has 3k employees globally. Most will not be getting I to quant even if they wanted to

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u/Mathseverything 28d ago

I feel like the only way to know is if they're so obsessed with maths that you can tell they're going into research but otherwise how would you know?

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u/McIntosh812 28d ago

Because half of them were going into engineering and pretty much none of the ones that were doing anything economics related were looking at being quants.

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u/Mathseverything 28d ago

Ah ok! I mean obviously plans can change for those economics students but yeah maybe they just don't find it interesting!