Columbia MSFE Columbia Masters in Financial Economics

[tips]

Yeah, kinda strange that they haven't released anything yet

 

[lty]

Yeah, kinda strange that they haven't released anything yet

Maybe it do be a ding for all of us lollll

 

[Qui-Gon]

You would think all things remaining the same, programs with app deadlines close to one another (ex. Columbia MFE (01/05/21) and Columbia MSFE (01/07/21)) would release their first wave of admits close to one another. My Columbia MFE admit came 02/09/21 ... fingers crossed at least one of us hears something today or tomorrow.

 

[lty]

You would think all things remaining the same, programs with app deadlines close to one another (Columbia MFE (01/05/21) and Columbia MSFE (01/07/21)) would release their first wave of decisions close to one another. My Columbia MFE admit came 02/09/21 ... fingers crossed one of us hears something today or tomorrow.

Have u interviewed with them yet?

 

[tips]

I believe the MSFE program said during the information session that they do admissions for this program (which is in CBS) in conjunction with PhD students for the business school, so the timetables are definitely different than the MFE (which is in the Engineering school) and might also be impacted by PhD admissions?

 

[Qui-Gon]

I believe the MSFE program said during the information session that they do admissions for this program (which is in CBS) in conjunction with PhD students for the business school, so the timetables are definitely different than the MFE (which is in the Engineering school) and might also be impacted by PhD admissions?

Ahh that's a good point. The "all things remaining the same" assumption is certainly violated.

 

[Qui-Gon]

Have u interviewed with them yet?

Nope, I'm in the same boat as everyone here

 

[tips]

Ahh that's a good point. The "all things remaining the same" assumption is certainly violated.

I'm still optimistic one of us will hear something this week or next week; They don't seem to do rolling interview invites like Princeton based off prior year posts, so once one of us has heard something that's probably it.

 

[tips]

Guessing no one heard anything yet today?

 

[tips]

bump

 

[lty]

Nothing yet as of now

 

[tips]

Any updates over the weekend? Guessing not

 

[Qui-Gon]

Any updates over the weekend? Guessing not

Nada

 

[tips]

Bump

 

[Zelong Qiu]

I asked the admission office on 01/25 and they said they were going to interview ~ 50 candidates in 2-3 weeks. Let's hope for some updates this week.

 

[tips]

wow, considering they accepted 50 total candidates last year I'm guessing they're either accepting much fewer students this year or they just have a very high interview -> acceptance conversion

 

[tips]

I ended up emailing them, they said that they met about candidates last week and will likely be sending interview invites this week with admission decisions coming very shortly after (i.e. beginning of march/last week of feb)

 

[Zelong Qiu]

I ended up emailing them, they said that they met about candidates last week and will likely be sending interview invites this week with admission decisions coming very shortly after (i.e. beginning of march/last week of feb)

Nice, thank you for the update . But I guess you are going to Princeton anyway if both of them admit you, aren't you?

 

[tips]

Tbh the programs are very comparable IMO in terms of what I want to get out of grad school + it helps that I have friends from undergrad / lived in nyc for two years so I'm pretty ambivalent between the two; Just want to get into one at least!

 

[Zelong Qiu]

Tbh the programs are very comparable IMO in terms of what I want to get out of grad school + it helps that I have friends from undergrad / lived in nyc for two years so I'm pretty ambivalent between the two; Just want to get into one at least!

Hah, I see. Pretty sure you should be able to get into at least 1 if not 2. Princeton isn't far away from NYC anyway. I think we are in similar situation where I want to gain potential research experience and evaluate if I want to do a PhD afterward.