dark.deceptionz, while your marks maybe good, your attitude towards others is pretty shit. It might help to stop prancing around like a princess.
what if you got accused of conspiring to get rid of actuarial students to increase salaries or decrease competition or whatever. consider this viewpoint: if more people came in, obviously these people will be a lower intellect in general, so the smarter kids would look smarter, the more talented look more talented, and the brilliant shine even brighter.
and especially on 4chan, you kidding me? i hadn't heard of it until a few days ago when SWIM told me about it
and trust me, half the actuarial cohort are retarded. but thats ok, if more incompetent kids come in, 2/3 of the cohort can be retarded. i don't mind.
to OP, in regard to the discussion, com/sci is a big moneymaker (say a major in finance in commerce, and a major in financial maths for science); as is actuarial studies/finance. you gotta remember that an actuarial degree is more than 2/3 of a finance degree anyway, and a finance degree is 3/5 of an actuarial degree
maths requires a higher level of abstraction; it's somewhat beautiful in its purity. it teaches you to think deeply about simple things, and there are many applications of pure maths to the real world (although this is not the main focus)
imo, both are great ways to make money
the difference between actuarial studies and finance is that actuarial studies focuses on insurance applications: this is where a lot of the difficult stuff is, and is probably completely irrelevant to a trader.
most kids who do actuarial studies don't want to be actuaries; and quite frankly, who does? but actuarial studies gives you so many skills; and teaches you how to THINK and ADAPT, whereas there is less of this in a quantitative finance degree.
