Finance and economics
Finance is a maths path wearing a suit. What separates applicants is genuine mathematical strength, evidence of real engagement with how markets and economies work, and results in the competitions this field respects — maths olympiads, economics olympiads, investment challenges. Reading the news is not engagement; a tracked position with a written thesis is.
How old is your child?
Maths level measured and pushed — this path is won or lost in maths. A paper portfolio starts here: pretend positions, real reasons written down, reviewed honestly when they go wrong. Economics olympiad prep if the interest is real.
What most families do instead.
Most families confuse interest in money with aptitude for finance and skip the maths, or buy a trading course that teaches a sixteen-year-old to gamble with vocabulary. The field itself filters on mathematics and evidence of judgement; neither can be purchased the year before.
What the record looks like after two years on this path.
- Maths assessment levels tracked twice a year, and pushed
- A paper portfolio with eighteen months of dated positions and written reasoning, including the bad calls
- One competition — maths olympiad, economics olympiad, investment challenge — entered with the result kept
- A written piece on one economic question they actually cared about
Maths, measured and moved
Adaptive assessments give the real level and one thing to work on next. This path is decided here.
Show meThe tutor for the deciding subject
If maths is the gap, find the person who closes it now rather than at seventeen.
Show meOlympiads and challenges
Maths and economics olympiads and investment competitions, matched to age and country.
Show meJudgement, kept honest
The paper portfolio lives in the record with dates, so the reasoning and the results are both real.
Someone in the industry
A person who works in finance, willing to describe what the job actually is — which surprises most teenagers.
Show meWhat to do this month.
- 1
Run the maths assessment and set the level as the thing to move this term.
- 2
Open a paper portfolio: three pretend positions, each with two written sentences of reasoning, reviewed monthly.
Sign up and the first conversation already knows the direction. The plan Cora builds is aimed at it from day one.
A path your child has not chosen will not survive the work. We build toward the direction you have in mind by getting your child genuinely interested in it — that is not a softer version of the goal, it is the only version that arrives.
And if they change direction at sixteen, the record survives it. Finishing things, building things, working with people — the evidence transfers.