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Do you really need to create original results in maths honours? I thought it was more about demonstrating that you've mastered something difficult on your own. So the HD average is for MATH subjects only right? It shouldn't include subjects from other Schools? Do you think Pure subjects...

Lol...as if transfer to USyd to do financial maths. UNSW is much stronger at financial maths both in terms of research and teaching compared to USyd.

Dealers are essentially market makers making money off the bid-ask spread, and don't take positions for hedging and/or speculation. Proprietary traders usually take hedging/speculative positions using the banks money.

They can pick up the knowledge but from what I've observed, they seem to share common traits with regards to personality, motivation, etc.

In maths, what range of marks should you be getting in ur undergrad yrs to be reasonably confident of achieving 1st class hnrs?

What's his name? And what exactly does a strategist do?

Stop making this racist shit up. I bet you are the one making up these "rumours".

Yes, but the bigger issuer is if your program authority lets you, and whether it counts to your program.

I'm guessing Wharton? :D

According to Tacon, streaming is initially based on HSC results. Not sure what's gonna happen now he's retired.

What exactly do you do in TSP? I thought they just led you overload/skip prereqs. Also, I think tutes for MATH1151/MATH1251 are streamed, which I suppose is something like TSP.

So no one does Financial Maths here?

At UNSW, as there is a lot of competition to do exchange at Wharton from Commerce students, you usually require a HD average as a minimum (usually 90+).

They changed my final maks.

I know of some school friends who transferred quite easily from BCom and BCom/BA to BCom/LLB with a strong DN average (80+) even though their UAIs (97ish) weren't very close to the law cutoff. The chance of transferring from BCom to BCom/LLB is high if you have good marks (DN) and a UAI close to...

Such a Norweigan-wannabe smartass:p...

The degee is 2ndary as you are either born to be a trader, or your not. I suggest going to the UBS Mock Trading Game and finding out how you handle under the pressure. I think BE (Elec) @ UNSW is actually quite a good degree for finance, since you its maths and problem-solving intensive, and...

Also, its curious there are so many Applied vac scholars @ UNSW. I thought it would be mostly Pure: http://www.ice-em.org.au/students.html#scholarships07

I am thinking of doing applied/stat honours in financial maths. Will I be able to cope if I have not done any 3rd yr Analysis but have taken the postgrad measure/probability theory course?

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