CMU MSCF CMU MSCF Admission Discussion

[jasonshieh]

No, I'm waiting for it...

Hi, friends!
Eh...students from waiting list of R1&R2 have been interviewed last week. Do you have any information about the number of 3rd Round applicants or admission rate?

 

[Quant4Life]

Hi, friends!
Eh...students from waiting list of R1&R2 have been interviewed last week. Do you have any information about the number of 3rd Round applicants or admission rate?

Have no clue. My guess is that next week invitations should start coming...

 

[jasonshieh]

Have no clue. My guess is that next week invitations should start coming...

Yep. From the tracker I found that the interview invitation would be available between 2 wks and 3days before the decision date.
Good luck for all of us.

 

[ABA]

All the best guys... from what I understand of the process, only serious candidates are interviewed... but keep in mind that if you ace the interview then you definitely bag some $$$!

Cheers!
Abhishek

 

[jasonshieh]

All the best guys... from what I understand of the process, only serious candidates are interviewed... but keep in mind that if you ace the interview then you definitely bag some $$$!

Cheers!
Abhishek

Aha, I know. The interview invitation means the unofficial admission.
Thank you ~

 

[Quant4Life]

Got an email today with an interview invite. Good Luck guys!

 

[jasonshieh]

Got an email today with an interview invite. Good Luck guys!

Big Cons!!!!!!! You will be a MSCFer >_<

 

[Rajat Kathuria]

Artur, Congrats! All the Best!

Were all invitations sent at once? Did anyone else get an interview invite in R3?

 

[Quant4Life]

Thanks! I believe if there are still any invitations for interview they will be out by no later than today, cause the time slots start tomorrow. So far there are already 16 students registered for interview during 05/08 - 05/14. Anyone knows how many students get admitted during each round?

 

[ABA]

Guys dont worry, I had my interview 3 days before the deadline for R2 decisions and my invitation was also about a week before!!! all the best!

 

[jasonshieh]

Artur, Congrats! All the Best!

Were all invitations sent at once? Did anyone else get an interview invite in R3?

I have asked admission team and they told me that the invitation would be available in the following weeks.

 

[Rajat Kathuria]

Any updates folks? How was the interview experience? Any recent interview calls?

 

[Quant4Life]

My interview was great. It was with Mr. Richard Bryant. I was asked where else I applied, about my internship, and about a Financial Markets Program at my school. Total time for that was about 10-15 minutes. The rest of the time I was asking questions. My understanding is that they interviewed a lot of students 30-40+ I'd say... Good Luck to all of us!!!

 

[Baixue]

Does everyone who got admitted to CMU MSCF have to go through an interview?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Almost all https://www.quantnet.com/tracker/?filters[program_id]=5&filters[result]=qnt_field_result_accepted
I don't know if those admitted that does not include the interview date info in the Tracker simply forgot it or did not have one.

 

[Stefan Du]

Hi, could anyone here give me some advice about the structure of essay B? It ask you to describe your background and preparation in the four concentration areas of the MSCF program – finance, computer science, math and statistics.

I have two methods to describe my experience but due to the restriction of number of words, I can choose only one:

1 I have 4 projects synthesized 3 concentrations (Stat, CS, Finance) and they have relations: I built models to predict the market and through these 4 projects, I gained experiences and improved the model. I am going to write along this line, describe the experience and talk about the growth of my understanding and what I have learnt related to the predictive models.

2 Ignore the relation between these 4 projects. Describe every projects and be more specific about my experience and what technical skills I have learnt like using Matlab do data cleaning.

Which is better? Is there any ways to improve one of these methods or combine them under the words limit?

Thanks!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I just did a quick search for "essay B" and there are dozens of threads from CMU MSCF applicants on this topic so you should get plenty of info from it.

 

[Stefan Du]

I just did a quick search for "essay B" and there are dozens of threads from CMU MSCF applicants on this topic so you should get plenty of info from it.

Thanks Andy, I will do my search again. But I still hope someone could give me some advice related to this specific question.

 

[tonylxy]

Anyone applied for the 1st round got interview invitation?
I just received it today, and it seems that the interview will take up to 45 minutes. Not sure what will be asked. Any past interview questions to share?

 

[mhy]

My interview (and from what I know most/all interviews are the same) was basically asking about my background and motivations, and career goals. Also a little bit of discussion regarding whether to do the program full time or part time (I chose part time, but was asked if I was thinking of doing it full time - not sure what the intent of this was)

You can also search this forum for past interview experiences. In general it is a conversation about your fit with the program.