First of all, take courses you enjoy. If those happen to coincide with our recommended curriculum, then you may be a very good candidate for our Program. The best preparation for our Program is lots of math.
Specifically, we recommend some sort of theoretical probability or real analysis, linear algebra, and ordinary differential equations. Basic statistics is also very useful. More advanced mathematics such as stochastic processes or partial differential equations don't hurt.
We usually recommend that students not go out of their way to take finance or economics courses since we cover most of that in our Program. More.
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