Ph.D. Financial Engineering
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Just finished my undergrad. Ended up with two honors degrees in mathematical fields from a big state university. Had two internships, one in insurance, the other in financial engineering.
Got a good introduction to Stochastic Calculus as a RA. Took a few PhD level courses as a senior. GPA over 4.0.
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I remember blowing through a bunch of my college courses finishing with 100+ points due to extra credit and all, but that only earned me an A, also I had a couple of painful 88's and 89's and of course that earned me a B. If I recalculated my GPA based on A+,A,A-,..etc criteria, I would probably be up to at least a 3.85.. Do grad school administrators take this into consideration..or do they treat all GPA's as equal and just a number.
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Well I just applied to Stony Brook for a Ph.D a month after their January 15th Master's (or all graduates?) deadline. The one reason being: Robert J. Frey. 12 years at Renaissance and built a fixed income strategy that got folded into the flagship Medallion fund itself. He's developing the quantitative finance program in their applied math/stats college currently, so I'm hoping I can somehow get in because all the quant practitioners I've emailed told me that even the entry level market is really horrid since all of the Lehman/Bear people will take even entry level stuff if only to take a job right now.
If not, it's back to the job hunt. Either way, I want to end up at D.E. or RenTec before I'm 30. I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I want to climb to the peak of the mountain, and hopefully passion and ambition will make up for my lack of utter top notch 800 Quant GREs Putnam Winner platinum superstar talent.
If not, it's back to the job hunt. Either way, I want to end up at D.E. or RenTec before I'm 30. I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I want to climb to the peak of the mountain, and hopefully passion and ambition will make up for my lack of utter top notch 800 Quant GREs Putnam Winner platinum superstar talent.
"I have heard good news from Princeton's ORFE program (departmental decision only, not the final university decision yet)"
What doed that mean? I had some kind of phone interview, very brief where I was just told that I had a good chance of being admitted.
But have you heard anything from Cornell, Columbia or Stanford yet?
What doed that mean? I had some kind of phone interview, very brief where I was just told that I had a good chance of being admitted.
But have you heard anything from Cornell, Columbia or Stanford yet?
There were only 1 acceptance posts for each of Stanford and Columbia at thegradcafe.com
Either they applied early or they are students that have very good profiles and schools noticed them early. Because, most of the students did not get the results so far(including me)
I was told that I've passed the departmental evaluations. That's what I meant.
I got similar news from Columbia last week.
It is not easy make preference. I will do:
1)Stanford 2) Columbia 3) Princeton 4) Cornell
chintanm, you should answer your question, too
I like all 4 of them - and would feel lucky to go to any of the 4.
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