Anything from Stanford MCF ?

latus_rectum · 2/17/24

Anyone heard anything from Stanford MCF ?

latus_rectum · 3/3/24

Anyone heard anything ? There isn't much data around Stanford on the tracker. Though I noticed that decisions usually start coming around 3rd-5th of March.

bootstrap · 3/3/24

The chances are, only one person (or at most two) on this forum will get a call from Stanford. So you should hope that nobody here is answering your question.

The Stanford name is prestigious so it attracts a lot of applicants. But they only take in like 5 people every year.

latus_rectum · 3/3/24

What, really? 5 people to their masters program ?
How come I never found this info anywhere. Oh man, why did I even applied if there are only 5 seats.

bootstrap · 3/3/24

People

mcf.stanford.edu

Unless they are not showing all students. But it makes total sense. Stanford MCF is like one of the four streams within the more general ICME Master program.

Lukee · 3/3/24

bootstrap said:
People

mcf.stanford.edu

Unless they are not showing all students. But it makes total sense. Stanford MCF is like one of the four streams within the more general ICME Master program.

They don’t show them all, I’ve seen people on linkedin not listed here.

To be honest though it doesn’t seem like a whole lot more than 5, definitely among the smallest of cohort sizes.

bootstrap · 3/3/24

Lukee said:
They don’t show them all, I’ve seen people on linkedin not listed here.

To be honest though it doesn’t seem like a whole lot more than 5, definitely among the smallest of cohort sizes.

Oh thats good to know. Let's assume it's 10, then I revise my guess to seeing two people on Quantnet getting an offer.

I think they took in more people in the old days, when it was still a stand-alone program. But after they merged it into ICME as literally 1/4 of the more general program, hardly anybody can get in now.

latus_rectum · 3/3/24

Didn't knew Stanford was such a big deal and this much difficult to get into. I thought it would be similar to MIT or UCB.
Looks like I will have to forget that I even applied to Stanford.

bootstrap · 3/3/24

latus_rectum said:
Didn't knew Stanford was such a big deal and this much difficult to get into. I thought it would be similar to MIT or UCB.
Looks like I will have to forget that I even applied to Stanford.

Dont give up hope, miracles do happen.

But you shouldnt be longing for any of the rest us to hear back from Stanford lol

Andy Nguyen · 3/3/24

Yes, we have people here applying to Stanford every year but they go to different tracks. They used to have a much larger cohort.
Boris Beltinoff admitted 2019 and already graduated 2021 according to his LinkedIn but still on that site.
This means the website is not current and doesn't have any useful info so applicants like @latus_rectum applied without all the basic info?
I gotta say we have tracked the Stanford program over the years and they haven't improved much in this regard.

Andy Nguyen · 3/3/24

Lukee said:
They don’t show them all, I’ve seen people on linkedin not listed here.

To be honest though it doesn’t seem like a whole lot more than 5, definitely among the smallest of cohort sizes.

Can we deputize you and others into getting people from LinkedIn to write a review for their program on QuantNet?

Andy Nguyen · 3/3/24

Andy Nguyen said:
Yes, we have people here applying to Stanford every year but they go to different tracks. They used to have a much larger cohort.
Boris Beltinoff admitted 2019 and already graduated 2021 according to his LinkedIn but still on that site.
This means the website is not current and doesn't have any useful info so applicants like @latus_rectum applied without all the basic info?
I gotta say we have tracked the Stanford program over the years and they haven't improved much in this regard.

To bolster my claim that we do not know any more about them in 2024 than we did since 2010.

Stanford Financial Mathematics

So little information about the program at Stanford. The website doesn't look to be updated and even here in the forum, few threads about Stanford. How can we get more information? Any Quantnet Stanford members or alum? Does Stanford offer any online chat/webinar like Baruch and CMU did in the...

quantnet.com

Why isn't there any discussion about Stanford Financial Mathematics?

Just like the title

quantnet.com

Any know about the placement of Stanford financial mathematics program

Actually I see very little information about the financial mathematics program in stanford on quantnet and the program list review also do not contain any comment about the program. Any could give any advice about the program especially for the placement?

quantnet.com

bootstrap · 3/3/24

Andy Nguyen said:
Yes, we have people here applying to Stanford every year but they go to different tracks. They used to have a much larger cohort.
Boris Beltinoff admitted 2019 and already graduated 2021 according to his LinkedIn but still on that site.
This means the website is not current and doesn't have any useful info so applicants like @latus_rectum applied without all the basic info?
I gotta say we have tracked the Stanford program over the years and they haven't improved much in this regard.

I heard Stanford also has a Management Science Program, which includes a Financial Analytics track.

But I suppose that program is not nearly as rigorous as a regular MFC or MFE program? And so isnt good prep for a quant career?

I agree it's really hard to get information about their programs in general....partly because there are so few alum to reach out to.

Lukee · 3/3/24

Andy Nguyen said:
Can we deputize you and others into getting people from LinkedIn to write a review for their program on QuantNet?

I don't use linkedin much, only for looking to see what companies certain programs place people at I can definitely reach out to some people asking them to leave reviews here though

eminenceInShadow · 3/4/24

latus_rectum said:
What, really? 5 people to their masters program ?
How come I never found this info anywhere. Oh man, why did I even applied if there are only 5 seats.

On their FAQs page, they say that they target ~10 masters students per cohort.

trader____ · 3/9/24

my guess is the result will be out on 3/22 based on prev years

WSBquant · 3/13/24

Has anyone received an update?

affine-quant · 3/13/24

Per their website, decisions come out first week of April.

ICME Application Deadlines

icme.stanford.edu

eminenceInShadow · 3/14/24

affine-quant said:
Per their website, decisions come out first week of April.

ICME Application Deadlines

icme.stanford.edu

Did they change the admit decision timeline? I clearly remember it was Late Feb for PhD and Late Mar for MS during the time of application.

Most other MS programs have their deposit deadlines before April

BigDicker · 3/15/24

eminenceInShadow said:
Did they change the admit decision timeline? I clearly remember it was Late Feb for PhD and Late Mar for MS during the time of application.

Most other MS programs have their deposit deadlines before April

Yes they did changed their decision timeline, I guess they changed it last week

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