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Jake_Shah dude im not sure which employment report are you talking about! the 2011 employment report? its for people who graduated 18 months ago! 2012 class graduated 6 months ago and they didnt publish the employment report yet! I am an Master of Finance student at MIT btw.

It would be interesting to know if we hear some updates regarding the above discussion from the students who got enrolled last year.

I'd go with UCB because the program is hosted at the business School. The people there give potential students a lot of care and attention when it's not the case for the remaining schools. I suppose this signifies a better treatment for current students as well and that's what I heard when I...

I was wondering what would be an appropriate laptop for an MFE student, in terms of computational power (C++ & Matlab) , reliability an endurance? Would a Macbook be inconvinient? What about ThinkPads?

Where did you get your funny information about Columbia from? They have been suffering placing their students for 3 years now mate!

Listen mate, I did the GRE exam without preparation as well. I thought that what matters would be a high GRE verbal as I believe that the GRE Verbal isn't a good measure of your communication skills in English anyway. I easily got a perfect Quant score (thus, i don't think you need that kind of...

It seems UCB has gotten some good strategies to raise money!

Mind you Saurab that yes CFA level 1 is mainly about accounting more than anything else. The FSA section is something like 35% of the exam. It's not hard though, you can do it on your own, but what I'm saying is that yes, you will have to study accounting. Good luck

What about their placement records? If they are not being able to place 60 students, how are they gonna deal with 120? with this market conditions? What about expanding the program into 3 semesters Andy? No news?

what did you end up doing mate?

It won't work man! We have been living in a crisis mode only because Lehman wasn't bailed out! Imagine a permanent crisis! :D

What's the source of your information?

so Andy you mean you can't provide any insight at the moment about what might be the top 5 programs in UK for example?

you shouldn't take their suggestions seriously man! It's just an automated message. I received a very similar one asking me to prepare and take CFA level 1 when I already passed the CFA level 2 exam and asking me to get the 90th percentile quant score in GRE when my GRE quant score is perfect...

Due to the fact that all accepted students I knew got a 2nd interview during which they were told about the offer of admission, I suppose that the abscence of an email calling for this interview means the abscence of an offer! Thus, I am not optimistic and not anymore in a hurry for the decision...