Everyone wants to break into Quant, but I want to break into Risk. Help.
I do not go to a target school.
I did not do any extra curriculars in high school, and I even took a few gap years before going to college.
I'm 24 years old now, female, and will be 25 when I graduate (August 2027, willing to push it back for internships), with a bachelors in Mathematics. I currently have a 4.0 GPA, and intend to keep it that way. I've also got one internship under my belt in private finance at a biotech company.
A masters degree is an option depending on the career I'm able to break into.
How should I pace this? Which internships should I target? Admittedly, I didn't know what I wanted to do until I discovered credit risk modeling under a reddit thread two weeks ago. That interests me. I want to do that.