2019 MFE admission roll call

[Andy Nguyen]

As admission decisions start to come in, let's get a tradition going here so we can share the programs we applied, the admits/rejects we received and the program we are ultimately joining.
Let's keep the format uniform and discussions on their separate programs threads. Please share details on each application timeline on the Tracker.
Below is an example.

Admits: MIT MFin, NYU Tandon MFE, CMU MSCF with 20K scholarship, NYU FinMath
Rejects: Baruch MFE, UCB MFE, Princeton MFin
Pending: Rutgers
Joining: CMU MSCF

 

[AmiFinance]

Admits: NYU Tandon MFE with 8k scholarship, Stevens MFE 20k scholarship, Rutgers, Boston MSMF, Columbia MFE
Rejects: -
Pending: Cornell MFE, University of Chicago MF
Joining: Columbia MFE

 

[devconnolly]

Admits: MIT MFin (31k scholarship), LSE MFin, Oxford MFE, HEC Paris MIF (20k scholarship), MIT MBan, Notre Dame MSBA (35k scholarship)
Rejects: -
Pending: -
Joining: MIT MFin

 

[Pranavsawant]

Admits: NYU Tandon MFE with 4k scholarship, Georgia Tech QCF, UCLA MFE, Columbia MFE
Rejects: - CMU MSCF
Pending: Cornell MFE, University of Chicago MSFM, UC Berkeley MFE
Joining: Columbia MFE

 

[Onegin]

Admits: CMU MSCF, NYU Math Fin, Cornell MFE
Rejects: Baruch MFE, Princeton MFIN
Pending: --
Joining: CMU MSCF, Pittsburgh

 

[Pulkitgaur]

Admits: University of Toronto, McMaster University
Rejects : University of Waterloo, ETH Zurich
Pending : EPFL
Joining : EPFL or University of Toronto

 

[yusha]

Admits: Columbia MFE, NYU Tandon MFE with 8K scholarship
Rejects: NYU Courant, Imperial RMFE
Pending:
Joining: Columbia MFE

 

[quanttrader]

Admits: CMU MSCF (70% scholarship), Princeton MFin, UCB MFE, MIT MFin (40% scholarship), Stanford ICME, UChicago Fin Math (70% scholarship), Cornell MFE (20% scholarship)
Rejects: Harvard Applied Math
Pending: Columbia MFE, NYU MathFin (assuming rejection from Columbia because haven't heard anything about interview)
Joining: Deciding between Princeton and CMU

Will put details into tracker soon.

 

[Michsund]

Admits: CMU MSCF (70% scholarship), Princeton MFin, UCB MFE, MIT MFin (40% scholarship), Stanford ICME, UChicago Fin Math (70% scholarship), Cornell MFE (20% scholarship)
Rejects: Harvard Applied Math
Pending: Columbia MFE, NYU MathFin (assuming rejection from Columbia because haven't heard anything about interview)
Joining: Deciding between Princeton and CMU

Will put details into tracker soon.

Holy shit that’s crazy, probably one of the most acceptances ever on Quantnet

 

[FrozenZ]

Admits: Baruch MFE, CMU MSCF New York, Cornell MFE
Rejects: Princeton MFin
Pending: N/A
Joining: Baruch MFE

Maybe among the applicants with least applications

 

[Adwait]

Admits: Columbia University Mafn, SUNY Buffalo msf(quantitative finance), UIUC msfe, Rutgers MQF, Stevens mfe(18K scholarship)
Rejects: None
Pending: Gatech QCF, University of Rochester ms Fin, NYU tandon mfe
Joining: Not decided

 

[Zeroxieeee]

Admits: Columbia MAFN, NYU Tandon MFE with 8K scholarship, BU MSMF, NYU MathFin
Rejects: CMU MSCF, Stanford ICME, Princeton MFin
Pending: Columbia MFE, Cornell MFE, UCB MFE
Joining: NYU MathFin(First choice all the time)
Good luck

 

[ssidoli]

Admits: NYU Tandon MFE with 11k scholarship, USC Viterbi MFE, Johns Hopkins, CMU MSCF with 21K scholarship
Rejects: Columbia MAFN
Pending: None
Joining: CMU MSCF (NYC)

Good luck to everyone here!

 

[Prospective Quant]

Admits: Princeton MFin, NYU Courant
Rejects: UCB MFE, Stanford ICME
Pending: Columbia MFE
Joining: Princeton MFin

 

[RandomGenerator]

Admits: NYU Courant, BU MSMF, Washington CFRM
Rejects: NYU Tandon
Joining: NYU Courant

 

[waxonator]

Admits: MIT MFin, Brown DSI
Rejects: MIT MBAn, Harvard Data Science
Joining: MIT MFin

 

[Quantaspirant]

Admits: NYU Tandon with 7k scholarship, Univ of Washington CFRM, Cornell MFE
Rejects: Rutgers
Pending: Columbia MFE, NYU Courant
Joining: Cornell MFE

 

[Youlan Dai]

Admits: Cornell MFE, LSE MFE, Columbia MFE
Pending: NYU Courant (not IVY, too math)，UChicago Finmath (not my choice), CMU MSCF (5/1, too late)
Withdrawl: Cambridge Mphil Finance
Joining: Cornell MFE

 

[Michsund]

Admits: Cornell MFE, LSE MFE, Columbia MFE
Pending: NYU Courant (not IVY, too math)，UChicago Finmath (not my choice), CMU MSCF (5/1, too late)
Withdrawl: Cambridge Mphil Finance
Joining: Cornell MFE

If you don’t mind me asking why Cornell over Columbia

 

[Youlan Dai]

If you don’t mind me asking why Cornell over Columbia

From the perspective of a Chinese student, 4 main reasons: 1. Tuition+ living cost (3 semesters) 2. Career service. Columbia's service= 0. I need a summer internship to get used to the new working environment 3. The quality of Chinese mainland students. I checked students profiles on linkedin. Cornell is more selective (most students come from C9 + Sun Yat-sen+ Wuhan University) while Columbia, due to its expansion, does not have a high bar on that. 4. Trend. Cornell's stat for 18 graduates is terrific. Employment rate at graduation 81%. Avg compensation is unbelievably high... Good trend is important to me. Columbia, seems not do well this year. Most importantly, in Cornell MFE (for 18 graduates), there are only Chinese students or ABC. Columbia consists of Indian and Chinese students. And I think Indian students are good at social skills and easier to get the job. Therefore when viewing Columbia's stat, I think the avg starting salary for Chinese students will be lower.