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I kind of have the same dilemma with my grades too. I assume most of you guys here are studying in universities that follow the US format of course assessment (i.e. roughly 30% homework, 30% midterm tests, and 40% final exams or any combination of the three with final exams <= 50%). In my...

What about taking some CVN courses as an undergrad? Would it bolster my chances for admission to columbia ieor phd program? The thing is, my current university doesn't offer a lot of courses related to operations research/financial engineering and perhaps taking some CVN courses before I finish...

startover: wow thanks for the insights. But what if you have no exposure to OR during your undergrad and was inspired to pursue a phd in OR after your undergraduate studies? (i.e. EEE major deciding to do OR) Wouldn't a master's degree be beneficial in that case?

atreides I did. However, I haven't heard from him at all...

Hi guys, I'm an undergrad hoping to pursue mfe. Anyway I've read on the forums and suggestions by others that if there's anything you need to add to your resume, it would be a finance internship. Just to let you guys know, I'm based in Singapore and I find it hard to look for a hedge fund here...

MRoss, Yeah I had the same thoughts as your friend 'till you clarified them now. Thank you very much! And oh, what do you think of a student's chances to get into a top MFE program in the US if he/she came straight away from an undergrad school in singapore? I mean compared to other...

MRoss Oh yeah, what you said is true. my friend reviewed for it over the summer and at that time i did an internship with a bank, right after my first year in university. this year's summer, my friend reviewed for the second exam which is financial mathematics while i went for a 6 week...

thanks MRoss, SYau, rajanS. are you from baruch too, rajanS? It would be interesting to note that all of you from Baruch have suggested the same thing. I'm honestly against it as well but the fact that the actuarial exams also test on these financial models bothers me. I may be a bit naive but...

and oh, now that i've checked the SOA exams, it seems that the exam P (probability), FM (financial mathematics), and MFE (models of financial economics) overlap with MFE (financial engineering)... this makes me think that i'm doing the wrong thing of doing research when i could've taken these...

hi guys, i'm an undergrad hoping to pursue mfe. anyway, i was just wondering whether taking the SOA exam P will be a plus on my application. the thing is, i don't have the time to review for it as i'm also involved in research in my university (field related to probability & risk, the second...

I couldn't agree more. I know of Chinese students (from China) who studied for the old GRE for less than a week yet they scored 700+ on the verbal. Perhaps it's an insult to those who devoted more time reviewing for it and to semi-native speakers like me. (semi because I think in English and am...

hi Dibbs, thanks for the reply! yup it's an internet application. does this mean i just write: Human Resources Manager Credit Suisse ?

hi guys, I'm applying for an internship with credit suisse and it asks me to specify 3 locations that I prefer. In my cover letter, I was wondering what I should put in the company address - do I only write the address of the credit suisse office I most prefer to do my internship in or do I...

@Connor I haven't made up my mind yet...but did you think I'm leaning towards UCLA?

@Connor: By the way, if the research project @ Imperial College would be about mathematical finance, I wouldn't lose my steam. This one about contraint optimization leaves me hanging. I have until April 15 (SG time) to decide :(

hi guys, thanks for the replies. Well, I'll be taking two courses at UCLA - game theory and ODE. (they moved the mathematical finance course from Session A to Session C but due to the differences in the academic calendar of my school and UCLA, I can only go for Session A.) I lost steam because...

Hi everyone, I'm currently an applied math undergrad in Singapore. I aspire to pursue MFE after graduation, preferably in a top school in NY. I've been seizing any opportunity that my school can offer me to boost my resume as well as add value to my technical skills (like computing). Recently...

I have this function: (K_{i\mu} (z) = \frac{1}{\sinh{({\pi \mu}/2})} \int^\infty_0 \sin{(z \sinh{t})} \sin{(\mu t)} \,dt) which appears in a bond pricing formula I'm trying to implement in C++. The function inside the integral seems sinusoidal as it is a product of two sinusoidal functions (ie...