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Exactly. I know they prefer the GRE, but they will also accept the GMAT. However, neither is required, and their site doesn't provide any details regarding class profiles which makes it very difficult to see whether one is competitive for admission.

I am looking for anyone who can shed some light on the columbia ms math.finance especially those who have applied/and or attended. I am particularly looking for some info regarding the background they look for, class profiles, etc. They do not advertise this sort of information on the website...

I am also interested in this topic. I am looking to apply to MFEs this year straight from an unknown undergrad. How is this program looked upon when applying to MFEs and what advantages might it have in my applications.

Andy was right in stating that most people aren't familiar with HPC, and it is indeed dominated by gov/university research. That being said there are people out there applying computational finance to these machines. I attended the Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans this year and sat in...

crazycai...thanks for the link, very helpful.

Any other advice/tips?? Again everything is greatly appreciated..this site is a great resource. Also its hard not to notice that most MFEs are dominated by Asian/Indian students. Does being a domestic applicant help my chances at all??

AndrewChang..thanks for the input. I forgot to mention I also have also taken a prob and stats course, and have experience in Java, C, MATLAB, Mathematica, Lindo/Lingo, and some of the API's in supercomputing like OPENMP, MPI, and little experience in CUDA.

Looking for any feedback...thank you in advance. Rising senior studying computational applied math, and minoring in economics. I attend Kean University, a state school in NJ, not really prestigious at any level, chose to go there to play a sport and because I went on a full academic...

I have an interview coming up for a summer internship where I will also be meeting some of the members on the trading desk and shadowing some of them. I am search for some advice on how to best prepare for the interview. In particular the shadowing segment. I am assuming I should be abreast...

First off just wanted to say thanks and that I consistently am on this site and love all the resources it provides. I am a current junior studying applied math and minoring in economics and I have hopes of attending a top MFE program. I am in a 5 year bs/ms accelerated program on a full...

thank you for all the advice, will take all into consideration while preparing for the interview. it seems the majority believes it could be very technical. I was not sure what to expect, my resume was given internally and I was called to be informed i will be meeting with Operations heads as...

I have an interview with Pru fixed income for a quant intern position. What kind of an interview should I expect for an undergrad quant position..more technical??? more brainteasers??? the position includes building and maintaining derivative models, and building spread sheets in excel any...

although that seems very interesting, a little over my head i would really like to get some ideas/advice from some industry experts or current grad students..

I am in a research based course this upcoming semester and I would really like to focus my research on some quant finance topic. I have access to my schools cluster and many cluster across the country, most with high powered GPUs, so I would like to incorporate high performance computing...

thanks for the advice guys,i also thought Rutgers would be my best bet because of the location. However, they dont always have convincing placement stats and I havent read the greatest reviews from their program. Even with a high gpa and high test scores, with some solid research in quant...

No rutgers, Kean Univeristy, state school in north jersey. Again I am in a good but fairly new honors program, but the school itself is not ranked very high. Had aacceptances to schools all over the country, but at the time was more interested in soccer than school and I couldnt pass up 5 free...

I played on their soccer team for two years before having to stop, due to constant conflicts with my cs classes. And no I do not attend USC, my school is a state school in north jersey that makes USC look like Princeton. The program I am in is very good and attracts some top students in the...

Hello, I am in need of any advice to help me on my way to getting into a top mfe program upon graduating. I had very good grades and test scores out of high school but chose a low, low tier school because of athletics and the fact that I received two different full academic scholarships...

Thank you for the response. So the field of hpc in finance is dominated by multithreaded C. I am more into message passing for clusters or CUDA for gpu's speedup. I guess I should learn multiC then. I am only a junior in undergrad who is pursuing bs/ms in comp. applied math, heavy on the...

I am involved in hpc especially with clusters and distributed systems API, such as MPI. I also have a big interest in the quant finance sector. Could anyone point me in the right direction, I know supercomputing is big on wall street. Any certain vendors or firms big on hpc or any other...

I am a rising junior with decent gpa(3.73) in computational applied math. Problem is I am from a state far from target school. What sort of companies and internships should i be looking into for the upcoming summer 2011 that will help me enhance my resume to hopefully get into a top mfe or phd...