2023 MFE Admissions Roll Call

[sweet]

Admits: CMU MSCF (15k), Columbia MFE, Cornell MFE (10k), NYU MFE (8k), NCSU MFM
Rejects: Princeton MFin, MIT MFin
Pending: Stanford ICME MCF (Rejected 3/23/2023)
Joining: CMU MSCF woooo!!!!!!

 

[the_tyler]

Admits: UChicago FinMath (60% scholarship), NYU MathFin, UCLA MFE ($10k scholarship), UC Berkeley Stats
Rejects: Cornell MFE, CMU MSCF
Pending: Columbia DS
Joining: Leaning towards UChicago not only due to the scholarship but also the school's reputation in industry and the robust program. Also, I want to work at prop shop/quant trading firms with high/mid frequency. There are many opportunities in Chicago and I am flexible to travel to New York for super days and other face-2-face interviews.

Happy to hear any comments. Thanks!

 

[AlteredSkies]

Admits: UCLA MFE ($10k scholarship), Stanford MCF
Rejects: Princeton MFin
Pending: Columbia MFE
Joining: Stanford!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

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.

 

[drumil]

Admits : NYU Tandon MFE, Rutgers MQF, Stevens MFE, Uni of Buffalo MS QF
Rejects : UIUC MFE, NCSU FinMath
Pending : Columbia Engineering MFE, UCLA MFE
Joining : Not Decided Yet

 

[tnguyen]

Admits: Columbia MFE
Waitlist: MIT Mfin
Rejects: CMU, Princeton

Joining: Columbia unless MIT moves forward. Feel free to get in touch with me if anyone else is going for columbia

Hi, can you share your profile?

 

[yyds]

Admits: Princeton MFin, CMU MSCF, Yale AM, Columbia MSFE MFE, Cornell MFE, NYU FinMath, UChicago FinMath
Rejects: Stanford MCF, Baruch MFE
Joining: Princeton MFin

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Admits: Princeton MFin, CMU MSCF, Yale AM, Columbia MSFE MFE, Cornell MFE, NYU FinMath, UChicago FinMath
Rejects: Stanford MCF, Baruch MFE
Joining: Princeton MFin

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

 

[yyds]

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

I realized I have already added the results under another account. Thank you for your kind words Andy. I think a lot more applicants will report if all the results can be submitted at once with dates as optional fields.

 

[Jaspxx]

Admits: CMU MSCF, Columbia MFE, UChicago FinMath
Rejects: Yale AM
Pending: Columbia MAFN, MIT MFin (waitlist)
Joining: CMU MSCF

 

[Kevin Griffin]

Admits: Baruch MFE
Rejects: N/A
Pending: N/A
Joining: Baruch MFE. Only applied to Baruch and very excited to have been admitted. Feel free to reach out if you're part of the incoming class as well!

 

[tnguyen]

Admits: Baruch MFE, CMU MSCF ($30k scholarship)
Rejects: Princeton MFin, Stanford ICME
Joining: CMU MSCF. Very hard choice to make between Baruch and CMU

Can you share your background?

 

[Kevin Griffin]

Can you share your background?

Sure. Currently a mechanical engineer. I went to UCSB for undergrad (2017) and worked at JPL before moving to NYC. I completed the C++ certificate, probability pre-MFE course, and ACFE pre-MFE course.

 

[tnguyen]

Thank you so much! Do you think those courses are helpful?

 

[Kevin Griffin]

Thank you so much! Do you think those courses are helpful?

Extremely helpful for a couple of reasons. I primarily needed them to fulfill pre-reqs for the program. However, they also give you a good idea of what information is likely to be tested on the QBA and in the admission interviews. Furthermore, the professors from the program can provide letters of recommendation.

 

[nawakmeister]

Can you share your background?

Don't know if your message asked for my background (since you replied to me) or Kevin's but here is my background anyway :
French Grande Ecole + MSc Operations Research at top 10 UK. 3.9 GPA, GRE 168Q 154V and machine learning internship amongst others. Hope it helps!

 

[MikeLawrence]

Don't know if your message asked for my background (since you replied to me) or Kevin's but here is my background anyway :
French Grande Ecole + MSc Operations Research at top 10 UK. 3.9 GPA, GRE 168Q 154V and machine learning internship amongst others. Hope it helps!

Yep, that'll do it. Congrats.

 

[Shannnnn]

hey bro, may you share that why you choose Uchicago but not NYU Courant?

Admits: UChicago FinMath (60% scholarship), NYU MathFin, UCLA MFE ($10k scholarship), UC Berkeley Stats
Rejects: Cornell MFE, CMU MSCF
Pending: Columbia DS
Joining: Leaning towards UChicago not only due to the scholarship but also the school's reputation in industry and the robust program. Also, I want to work at prop shop/quant trading firms with high/mid frequency. There are many opportunities in Chicago and I am flexible to travel to New York for super days and other face-2-face interviews.

Happy to hear any comments. Thanks!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Anyone with recent decisions, please update and let us know where you will end up joining if possible.

 

[Eiko]

Admits: Columbia MFE
Rejects: UZH/ETH MSc QF (Zürich, Switzerland)
Pending:
Joining: Columbia MFE. I only applied to these two programs and Columbia has always been my #1 option, so happy ending