Recent content by jeff

just wondering if when considering candidates for american mfe programs if there's any "extra consideration" or anything given to people with american citizenship or if it just like doesn't matter... my impression is that the big thing that all the top programs focus on is job placement, and it...

just use matlab i've actually been trying to figure out how to do it in VBA also and then discovered that matlab actually does it automatically: parmhat = gpfit(X)...

That's kinda like my main question, though... In terms of undergraduate admissions no one affiliated with universities agreed to assess applicants' chances of getting in before applying either, but it was still pretty much kind of well-known by people anyway that when you graduate from high...

re I mean I know at this point that I want to do something in quant finance but the more reading I do on it the more math there seems to exist that I've never seen before... I've done calculus through diff eq and lin alg + two semesters of engineering probability and stat + a few computer...

Hey, I'm an undergrad right now set to graduate in Dec09 (I'm staying one semester past four years because I am a dual degree student here so it takes a bit longer). I am extremely interested in quant finance, but have pretty much been trolling the hell out of admissions profiles for all the...

I am a rising senior at Penn doing dual degree finance at Wharton and computer science at Penn Engineering, am interning this summer at Allstate Investments in Chicago writing VBA programs for ABS traders, and have made the decision that my goal for a career is to become some sort of quant... I...