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The list of pending applications on the Tracker is looking sad. Hope those waiting get the results soon. https://quantnet.com/tracker/?program_id=2&result=pending&order=application_updated&direction=desc

@MRoss is great. Being able to come up with useful contents frequently is not an easy task.

Just came across this "blast from the past". This is the kind of posts that extremely valuable for people looking to get into a specific program.

A relevant finance job or internship is much more valuable than a bunch of certificates. Lots of people collect Coursera certificates so those have much less weight these days. CFA is a huge investment in time which may not be necessary. Some programs like their applicants to do that but it's...

You have a good profile for a college junior. Stats and CS are great major to have. As evident by your SWE internship, this sets you up nicely for a career in FAANG or related industry. To get into finance which is highly competitive, make sure your coding skills are really good. I had a CS/Math...

I didn't see your Tracker so I want to see where you applied and which programs you got into. Would be great if you can add them there. What concerns you about the Imperial RMFE program? I'm not familiar with that specific program but Imperial has another Math Fin program which seems to get high...

What other programs did you apply?

Reading the books will help you express better why you want to do an MFE and how you fit into the picture. They will interview you. Many programs have courses in DeFi, crypto so your experience will help. Again, there are hundreds of applicants for every program so they expect you to at least...

Once you got the right amount of C++ skills, say after the Quantnet C++ advanced course, you can contribute to many open source quant libraries through github. That way, you can build a profile that will lead to many opportunities. There is always good paying job for those with excellent coding...

You need a focused plan on how to strengthen and transform your profile. Research on the best programs that will accept you. Dont just apply randomly. Take math courses that these programs require. Take the C++ courses which will satisfy the programming requirement and make you hireable right...

@NYU Tandon MS FE Admissions Team

Best bang for your bucks would be to take the QuantNet courses (all of them) which will make you really good C++ developer, enough Python skills to be useful on day one, and the options pricing knowledge to be able to pass quant interviews. You can't work with options pricing models without...

Jan, Feb around that time.

Very impressive. You must share your profile on Tracker so people can see. Congrats and enjoy your time at Princeton.

We have a new review for the Princeton MFin program, 10 years after the last one. Thanks @hardrock https://quantnet.com/resources/princeton-university-master-in-finance-program.6/reviews#resource-review-1302

The author has been teaching securities derivatives in the NYU Tandon MFE program since 2008. https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/keith-lewis

Congrats. Can we see your results on the Tracker?

And we shall make those data more accessible to everyone.

Funny enough, I was in my second year Math PhD when I learned about MFE degree by chance. QuantNet did not exist then. The rest is history as they say.

Of course, employment stats are very important and we treat them as such. We have a process with all the programs to ensure we report correctly the numbers they provide. We don't audit their numbers. We stand by the numbers we report in all of our rankings. Hopefully, in the future, this is a...

If you want to work in London, go to Cambridge, otherwise it's advantageous to go to US programs. It's easier for recruiting. Firms will arrange travel, interviews, etc only for exceptional cases so applying for jobs across continents is just adding another geographical barrier. Getting into...

We have the very first review of the program. Excellent review by the way. https://quantnet.com/resources/columbia-university-financial-economics-msfe.74/reviews

Thank you for sharing your amazing story and journey @ibpkpnu. You have a very unique experience in both finance and DS space, I hope you would consider doing an AMA. Would be interesting to hear more on the data science/ML/AI perspective now that ChatGPT is all the rage.

By the time you walk through the book with all the new members, you will know the materials by heart. Great job. @sucker for smiles take this chance. You won't get another offer as generous as Mike's.

Here is another one to get you started. https://quantnet.com/threads/projects-idea-for-students-going-into-quant-field.53603/

Join a group study with some of the members here and get some support. It is hard to do this alone without direction. @MikeLawrence @Quasar Chunawala

@QuantCoach @Igna may be able to give some pointer on the timing of internship application. In the meantime, go read on their respective AMAs. There are plenty of valuable tips in there. Would be good to indicate the type of internships you are looking for. We have a massive list of finance...

I have read many reviews on QuantNet over the years and most of them are superficial. When a member took the time to write a review that describes his experience in the program, his likes and dislikes in vivid details, it's a win for all stakeholders. We all benefit so much from it. The recent...

Did anyone get an admit and any kind of scholarship from Cornell?

Thanks for giving back to the community and paying it forward. It's rare to see that these days. It says more about one's character than anything. Now that you have finished your MFE journey and started your career as a young finance professional, how can we make QuantNet as useful to you as...

https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-billion-parameter-llm-tuned-finance/ Bloomberg today released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPTTM, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. This large language model (LLM) has been...

Pocket protector has its own interesting history https://www.americanscientist.org/article/rise-and-fall-of-the-pocket-protector

@QuantCoach Thank you for sharing your advice. I appreciate this a lot. What are the classic mistakes/pitfalls that many MFE graduates make during their internship and job search?

You can now run #GPT locally on your MacBook with GPT4All, a new 7B LLM based on LLaMa. It's completely open source: You can access to demo, data, and code to train an assistant-style large language model with ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

The Master of Science in Financial Economics is a two-year STEM eligible master’s degree program offered by the Finance Division of Columbia Business School. The MS in Financial Economics is also eligible for the STEM OPT extension. Students complete a minimum of 16 full graduate-level courses...

If you haven't shared your admission results here, please do. Also, please remember to add your data to the Tracker. If you have all the results and made your decision, please update your post. It's very important for many who are in the similar situation.

@BeckyBian Congrats of getting two admits from Columbia Business School and Sloan. Would be great if you can add your profile and application timelines on the Tracker? This way, it's easier to find and connect with people who going to be your classmates.

This is from the Admission Director of CMU MSCF program, Gwen Stanczak https://quantnet.com/threads/graduate-schools-looking-for-thoughtful-well-rounded-students.46410/ This is from Akram Khan, UCLA MFE student https://quantnet.com/threads/tips-for-applying-to-mfe-programs.52334/...

Congrats. Are you joining the program?

Hey @Xu Ryan When do you plan to apply to MFE programs? The answer will determine how long you have to strengthen your profile. We have so many resources here to help applicants like you get into the best MFE programs with their profiles. There are many guides and articles here that are always...

A lot of financial engineering sites have died out over the years. https://quantnet.com/threads/r-i-p-financial-engineering-news.1027/

OpenAI announced a product extension for ChatGPT allowing the chatbot to interact with external data and services. With plugins, ChatGPT now can search for real-time information on the web, order groceries from DoorDash, and book flights, hotels, or rental cars on Kayak. In short, plugins have...

For anyone interested in financial firms in the Chicago area, the list below is helpful. It's maintained by wikipedia so the list can change at any moment but it will give you a starting point when you begin applying for internships and jobs. Banks Alliant Credit Union (Chicago) Amalgamated...

https://kx.com/kdb-personal-edition-download/ Download to experience how kdb+ is: a high-performance cross-platform time series columnar database. an in-memory compute engine. a real-time streaming processor. an expressive query and programming language called q, optimized for time series...

Small items like pens, coffee mugs, mouse pad, etc that you put your company brands on and give away as promotional items.

Here is the class of 2023 profile. 73% of the class is with finance and economics degrees.

@Ken Abbott suggested a great idea that we provide QuantNet-branded swags to members who help answer questions on our site. This is something we definitely should do given we have many wonderful members here who are now practitioners in finance. It's good to help out fellow members but it's...

For those that applied to the Columbia MSFE (Financial Economics) program, I have added the program so please add your timelines to the Tracker. @mowmow @LouVega @sonny_song @conquerv @shirlch Much appreciated.

I had a Zoom with people from Yale Business School yesterday and we hope to be able to provide more insights about the Asset Management program to our audience. Stay tuned.

@BenShui @LakeYang Did the results come in for you?

Congrats @AlteredSkies You are the only two 2023 admits among the dozen we have on the Tracker here. Would be great to have your profile and timeline added on the Tracker so we can see which type of applicants got the offer. Also, you need to be clear of your desired career path out of each...

Go Tracker or go home.

We still have a few pending results so hopefully they got converted to admit.

It's just10AM in California time so they could still come out today.

Sorry to hear that. I assume you applied to other programs and still waiting? I didn't see your on the Tracker so just want to confirm it.

https://quantnet.com/threads/quant-internship-and-graduate-recruitment-a-firms-list.10000/ https://quantnet.com/threads/big-list-of-quant-employers.26716/

Daniel, You can use the Image button to upload a picture or enter the url of the image you found so they can show properly.

On a second read, I agree with this. I think most people will approach this as a 100K investment and they want to have a >50% probability to regain that investment right after school. Unfortunately, some programs make it very difficult to make a good decision. Many students went back to China...

Pretty funny username. Thank you for adding to the Tracker and our prayers are with you for just one offer.

Congrats and time to light up the Tracker with your green color of admittance, guys

Awesome. Thank you @Rey_De_Leon I'm very curious about the Stanford MCF program as very little is known about them. Please share with us anything you know. Anyone can volunteer to provide some info like application deadline, tuition, admission, employment stats?

@Rey_De_Leon Can you add your timeline to the Tracker so we can all track when the decisions are coming in. We need to break at least 10 data points for the 2023 group and we need 2 more.

They are all gone.

C++ is the acid test for most quant interviews and positions. Everybody can claim they know Python but it's harder to make that claim with C++ with its reputation. I will say that many MFE grads do not use C++ at work at all but knowing C++ will open many more doors for you than with only...

Get solid programming with C++ (at least 2 courses, some coding projects), Python (some real world projects with big datasets). You can get into MFE program right out of undergrad but if you can get at least one internship before, you will have a stronger profile and more importantly, you have a...

Most of the data can be found in the QuantNet MFE rankings but the reviews are much harder to obtain. We may have to form Seal teams to hunt down reviews. It's always "what is in it for me" mentality that we have to overcome :)

Question to all the MFE applicants. When you research MFE programs through QuantNet, what are the crucial data that you need to help you decide which program to apply and to join? Obviously, these are data you can't find it elsewhere. Admission: acceptance rate? Employment: average salary, %...

Lovely. I will keep an eye on when you let us know the Stanford MCF results come out. Best of luck.

Then hold on. Wait until you have an official offer.

Curious to know which one? Data Science track?

This week is going to be crazy for you guys.

Thank you to @Dr Strangelove @nawakmeister @MrCoolGuy for sharing your timelines on the Tracker. I think we need more representatives for Stanford. It's the school that Elon Musk briefly attended after all :) I'm calling out @DegenTrader @aristegos @LakeYang @test- @bwoods Let's make it to 10...

How much is the deposit and what is the policy regarding the deposit? I would assume it's nonrefundable but you have nothing to lose by inquiring about it. Worst case they will say no. If you are pretty sure about your choice of taking on the better offer, it's wise to proceed with caution since...

I will be inviting a top head hunter who is based in Chicago to be here and do an AMA with QuantNet members. He has been a member here for a long time and is very generous to offer his advice. Are you guys interested in learning about the job market in Chicago, specially around the hedge fund...

This is so great to see you share your experience. I'd ask for a favor that you post your review here https://quantnet.com/resources/university-of-chicago-master-of-science-in-financial-mathematics.11/reviews This way, it's easier for students to look at reviews over the years and see how the...

Interesting. 61K tuition for 32 credits, 2 semesters course. They do offer a 10K scholarship to some admitted students.

If anyone knows of any more master programs in big data, fin tech, etc please suggest.

Take it for what it's worth. Please let me know if it's something you find helpful.

Promoting this to the front page. Thank you @Igna for your time helping out inspired quants.

I learned SQL on my first job on a prop trading desk at Deutsche Bank as I was finishing my MFE. Also, gotta learn VBA/XLL and all that fun stuff. There was a huge disconnect between what you learn in MFE and what's actually going on at work.

This is great, Ken. I have a few practitioners who are looking to start discussion on this ESG as it is becoming more relevant to their quant work. @Christian @Dimitri Vulis

Good luck with the admission and hopefully when you go there, you can lobby for them to participate in the ranking. It's better for a program to be in the best quant ranking in the world than not.

I can answer that as far as QuantNet ranking is concerned. Stanford program reached out to me several years ago after we released our ranking to inquire about having them ranked. They have not responded to the survey for subsequent years rankings and my repeated attempts to reach out to them got...

I heard from a few people that they have good results from this book. And a lot of MFE admission interviews use this book to screen applicants. Most people refer to this as the "green book" because of the cover color...

We do have a directory, forum index right below the list of latest posts. The latest posts is just a list showing 20 or so latest posts. You can get the same thing by clicking on the What's New link on the top menu. I'm not 100% convinced of keeping or removing the latest posts on the forum...

Many programs in different fields (like law school) already have quite intensive data reported. Here is an example https://www.lawschooltransparency.com/schools/fordham Just imagine the potential. I think what we like to do is to provide as much info as we can gather and display them in the...

Microsoft Just Launched Copilot 365 — Basically A ChatGPT-4 Powered Microsoft Office Here’s the summary of what it can do for you: • Excel - Helps you analyze trends and create professional-looking data visualizations in seconds. • Powerpoint - Helps you create presentations with a simple...

@sakmad @cthreetangerines @conquerv @Patrick_Bateman @sundev @LouVega @CSong @legendkt @akmahto

It is on the Tracker now. Please add your timelines there everyone.

This is a cycle where successful programs produce happy graduates who got a successful careers and want to give back to their alma mater by providing data, reviews, mentoring, job leads, etc. On the other hands, there are many programs that can't track where their graduates are, let alone gather...

There was many discussions and applicants for the Columbia MSOR in the past. I haven't seen much mention of MSOR program last few years.

Same here. I think it's time. We will get it done at some point. I would need help from many members like you who familiar with UK/EU programs to point us to those worth rankings. Reach out to me if you can help us in that regards. What would you suggest about getting these data points?

When I started QuantNet in 2006, I never envisioned that QuantNet will grow into a global hub for students inspired for a career in quantitive finance. I heard it from many program's directors and administrators that as many as 90% of their incoming students did their program research on...

@MRoss may be able to answer this.

What other programs did you apply to? Can you share your timelines at Rutgers MSMF on our Tracker?

Rutgers has 3 programs: MQF, MSMF, FSRM. I notice the MSMF program's enrollment has been steadily decreasing. Before Covid, it has close to 50 students every year and now it has 9 FT students. That may explain why you can't find many of them. To get a quant job at a WS BB bank is no easy task...

Shashi, This is wonderful to read about your journey. Thank you for sharing. As more people explore career in fintech, crypto, I hope your story and experience will help people make informed decisions.

Sorry to hear that. You still have a few pending results, correct? Best of luck and hope to hear your final decision soon.

Just a few days ago, I reconnected with an old member here through LinkedIn. He posted the same admission questions about MFE programs back in 2007, asking QuantNet members to help him with decision. I met him at one of the MFE program open house events so I still remember his distinct profile...

Thanks @Igna for taking the time to share your knowledge with our community. Much props to you. I hope prospective applicants take the opportunity to learn as much as possible. This is the type of mentors you need to land you a job.

I emailed the director to see if they want to explore idea on how to increase the exposure for their program. I believe there is a lot of ignorance about the program because many people will assume Columbia MSFE is the same as Columbia MFE.

Microsoft just introduced Visual ChatGPT It enables you to send, receive, and edit images during chatting. You can also ask questions about any images.

We have hundreds of applicants checking their admission status and posting updates on QuantNet daily. I think it would be a fun idea to bring back this topic from someone that went through the same experience. Have fun and enjoy checking your status guys. Don't forget to put it up on the...

There is no part time option at Columbia MFE.

Put it in the Tracker guys !! If you don't have a Tracker, nobody believes you are real.

The World's Most Successful Hedge Fund, Citadel Is Currently Negotiating With OpenAI To Purchase An Enterprise-Wide License For ChatGPT 🤯 Billionaire Ken Griffin (net worth $36 billion) has said that ChatGPT will be a game-changer for the economy and that this branch of technology has had a...

It's a tie between MIT and Cornell to see which one has more applications tracked here. Same for Baruch and Chicago.

@ftst_modeller @johnnyb Once you make your choice of which program you will join, please update the Tracker for the program and choose "Joining this program". This will add a start to this tracker and make it easier for you and everyone to find your incoming classmates. Congrats and enjoy the...

I'll start.

@SKP_MFE @Eldiablo @Frank Chen @nyac @Bill Tao @ciciyang @ultimatron @kkp @daxabooi @Gquant @Llama @Suyang @ytlithium @Elastoplast @johnnyb @PolarLow @Shannnnn @Jiamin Li @marcusaurelius @Jaspxx @v_k @rexquant @SuyashS @RedDevilSlayer @jshree @CuandoQuanto @HenryZhuuuuu...

Whenever anyone sks how to get into a field involving #programming or #machinelearning, the advice is always "do projects and upload them to GitHub." The same applies to #quant investing, but what #quant projects would impress a prospective employer? Well, I can tell you what would impress me...

This is one of the most beautiful post I've ever read here. Thank you for sharing your story and how we played a part in your journey. Your story is one that similar to many of us who came to the country as immigrants. We strike to provide the knowledge and a supportive community that everyone...

Have you looked at this? https://quantnet.com/forum/risk-management-resources.107/ @Ken Abbott is your guy who has answers to your questions. He is a former Managing Director in Risk Management at one of the big WS banks.

We all appreciate your contribution to the Tracker. It's an additional data point that we don't have for a very competitive program so it's worth 10 normal points. Imagine when we have enough data for this program, we can show the prospective applicants the probability of his admission given his...

There is an option where members can choose to hide their username on the Tracker. I think there is a balance here. We want you to only share things that you are comfortable with. On the same token, the Tracker is only as helpful as how much you decide to share. I plead many times for every...

Congrats to all with the admissions. Time to light up the Tracker with your status guys.

Hundreds of interview questions and answers for people interested in data science jobs. The topics are statistics, data science, machine learning, data analysis, deep learning, etc. Credit: Steve Nouri,

Baruch press release on this news https://newscenter.baruch.cuny.edu/news/baruch-college-mfe-students-claim-first-place-at-2023-rotman-international-trading-competition/

@Peter Wagner is a managing director of a recruitment firm. He posted market updates here. His firm has a blog which has several useful for technical quant candidates. https://www.affinityny.com/for-candidates I'll see if he can come and do a Q/A with us.

Hey Alex, Very glad to see your first post here. Welcome back. Your observation is similar to everything I heard about C++ skill is high in demand now. @Pavlos Sakoglou can give some pointers as he utilized his C++ skills into his current role. I'm actually reaching out to a few technical...

There is a post by a UCLA MFE student sharing his thoughts on why he chose the program. Worth reading to get a first hand experience. https://quantnet.com/threads/why-ucla-anderson-mfe.52335/

I found this clip on Youtube from Columbia Business School. It was posted in 2021 but still a good overview for MSFE students.

Added to the Tracker as well as the list above. If there is enough data, maybe there will be a future UK rankings.

I updated the name of Warwick on the Tracker. If you see any missing UK programs from the Tracker, please let me know and I will add them.

Please try again. I have made the GRE optional since many programs do not require them.

This is excellent news to hear Felix. Congrats. I would strongly encourage you to share your timeline on the Tracker and mark Chicago as your choice so others who going there can easily connect with you. Thank you for your contribution.

WSO Patrick and I go way back to the ealier days of both of our sites. We still keep in touch these days. Glad that you found your way here and I appreciate you being with us.

Forum are for old geezers like me :) I am curious where the youngsters hang out these days?

The latest release 0.5 Source PyStatMl — Statistics and Machine Learning in Python 0.5 documentation Link to PDF https://raw.github.com/duchesnay/data/master/pdf/StatisticsMachineLearningPython.pdf

The link to the QuantNet Python course is here https://quantnet.com/python/ Please let @APalley or us know if you need any further information.

I'd like to welcome everyone who recently joined QuantNet. We have a huge spike of members and it is our tradition to do a little introduction and get to know other members who potentially become our future classmates or colleagues. I started this in 2006 so I've been around here for a while but...

Congrats. Can you update the Tracker with your admit? That will brighten everyone's day :)

Please use the Watch function on the top right of this thread and you have the option of getting instant email notification of any question or post on this thread.

Prof. Lawler, very nice to see you here and thank you for post. If you don't mind, I'll post the link to your page on University of Chicago's Financial Mathematics program which contains link to your Stochastic Calculus ebook. https://finmath.uchicago.edu/about/faculty-and-lecturers/gregory-lawler/

Thank you Pavlos for coming back and sharing your experience. We appreciate you, sir. I'm featuring this on the homepage so this can get more attention. Now, what would you do differently if you went back and were in the positions of many members here, planning to get a finance job? How would...

There are a few members here went to Chicago according to the 2021 roll call thread https://quantnet.com/threads/2021-mfe-admission-roll-call.48253/ You can message them directly to see if they are willing to leave a review here.

The 2023 ranking page has been updated with an overview of the average students ratings. Hopefully, this will give more prominence to the reviews and in turn, encourage more alumni to write a review. https://quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/

Hey @shedinja, Say hi to Tim and Sarah for me when you go to UW CFRM. It's good that you want to get a jump start on it and you come to the right place. You can start with this and ask any question here if you need help. How will you prepare for your coding skills so you can be ready for...

Would come in handy if you use Bloomberg terminal at work and need to learn these shortcuts.

I said this before but worth repeating. We see great value and huge demand for the MFE rankings we do every year, otherwise we won't do it because it is A LOT of work to get it done. It literally takes months of survey, emails from 30+ programs to get the data and then weeks to calculate the...

They must be the one writing the 5 stars reviews lately :) If not, can you please ask them to give us a review here?

The struggle to get reviews for program is real and dated back years ago. Student reviewers of MFE programs I think we need to ask the fundamental question of whether people only motivated to do that when money involved? We offered Amazon giftcard before for reviews but it doesn't make a big...

@Qui-Gon had some logical thoughts. We rank programs of the same discipline together. The fact that Columbia already has 2 different programs in our ranking that target similar applicants for similar job profiles, it is hard to see the Financial Economics program wants to be in the same pool...

Congrats. Can you please share you profiles and timelines in the Tracker?

https://mcf.stanford.edu/

I believe you and @Lukee bring a lot of fresh perspectives into the discussions here and they are extremely appreciated. I agree that there are lots of questions that left untold over the years and lots of topics that many people avoid to bring up. I'm glad that new members like you bring it up...

Meaning the programs have not been very successful of attracting domestic students. I met many young, talented US-born undergrads who would do really well in MFE programs but on papers, they may not measure up against the talents coming oversea as far as GPA, GRE scores go. @Christian and @Brad...

@Lukee Looking at this from another angle, since you are a domestic student, you have a better chance getting into a program than many international students with a stronger profile. I have discussion with many program directors and they all indicate a desire to attract more domestic students...

We tried this years ago but it did not result in any uptick in quality reviews.