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I think he meant 800 out of 800 on the quant......and 630 out of 800 on the verbal

Actually I am going for a PhD in Finance and just created this thread only out of curiosity. Of course from each student's point of you, you don't care how the rest will get a job as long as you get one/the one. And of course once you have the job you don't care if the other quants get fired...

I have followed the forum for a short period of time and it looks like that MFE(and similar degrees) are becoming very popular. It seems that there are more and more universities starting such programs. Roughly speaking the top 20 programs have graduating classes of about 50 students or so...

i'd be happy to share my info with you. although, I have not received the decision yet(I could have been rejected) and I am not sure how my profile will be helpful to you. I do not know exactly what it is that may make them reject or admit a person besides the things i mentioned in my earlier...

not technical at all. Most of the questions were on my resume, background and future goals. They are looking for someone that has either a strong background in math, programming or finance. If you have them all you are in good shape. They want to make sure that you are capable of...

I did some research on the Carnegie Mellon computational finance program and it seems that job placement upon graduation of this master's is not correlated with work experience prior to entering the master's. There is a summer internship while studying at Carnegie Mellon and that is highly...

Does anybody have any advice on how to prepare for the interview of the MSCF at CMU?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Dear Joy: For the last 2 years I have been preparing to enter a PhD of finance with the long term goal to work in the private sector. When I decided to make the list of my applications I wanted to diversify them. I ended up applying to three groups of...

I have an interview with Carnegie Mellon for the MSCF coming up next week (I applied for the full time NY campus program). I did some research and it seems that this is one of the best places to study in order to start a career as a quant. They have a great network and very interesting...