Recent content by WilliamRFrost

How important are the verbal and AW sections of the GRE?

"BP Supply & Trading (I could be a little off on the name- it's been several years) is still very competitive- you'll be up against the second and third decile of students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Notre Dame, and maybe a sprinkling from Berkeley and Northwestern- but it's easier than...

MSF - Master of Science in Finance MSF - Master of Science in Finance Numbers don't seem consistent enough to tell you much.

I imagine some people here would know... Do Princeton students usually get some more GPA leniency than other Ivy league schools because of this policy?

" the average student does 1-1.5 standard deviations above average in the most competitive programs, and maybe about 2 standard deviations" That's probably the most useful number I have seen, but for that, what would you classify UMich Engineering as?

You actually had me thinking that was a real book.

Well... It's called a Masters of Finance, not a MFE...

How useful is an educational background in Data Mining & Information Analysis to the finance industry?

"In general, C is the maximum number of coins, then no pirates older than (2C+1) will survive." Can you explain why (and why those pirates won't simply instead vote in favor of any proposal?)

A question about the general case where N (number of pirates) > 1000... Do pirates of N-index < N-1000 (for instance, the first 200 if N if 1200) vote in favor when they get 0, because they don't want to risk the split coming to them, and they're unable to satisfy enough people, so they die?

I'll be nit-picky and say that only happens if the lions know the other lions are intelligent, which was not stated (so I assume to be false). Is that something you're supposed to ask in the interview if they don't say? For the pirate problem, Pirate 2 won't ever vote for anything that...

I'll have to assume where you said starvation at the end, you meant being eaten, because otherwise it makes no sense. If n > 1, the meat won't get eaten. If n = 1, the meat gets eaten, if n < 1, there are no lions to eat the meat.

"but the MFE has some foundational finance classes (ie Capital Markets & Investment Strategies). Also the MFE lets you customize with a concentration." But the IOE degree lets you take them as well, they're just not required. Also Financial Engineering is the concentration with IOE. I guess...

Edit: By the way, I am talking about at Michigan, not everywhere. So I'm looking at this here... and I'm wondering what's missing from what classes are part of that, and a full MFE program. The only three MFE only classes are Statistical Methods in Finance, Optimization Methods in Finance, and...

I definitely do want to get an IE degree. Firstly, it is much better at guaranteeing a good job out of undergrad (this is one of the top schools for IE). Secondly, I have more credits toward it than I am willing to abandon. I am not a 100% sure on finance either. Right now I'm saying "Yeah I...