Yang_Pop
Tina.Yang
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Hi, I am in the applying to the MFE program in U-Michi, and a 2-3 minute video is required.
I have written a draft for that, but it seems a little too long, the target length is 250-320 words.
Please get some revising advises.
Here is the requirement:
introducing yourself. You may give any information about yourself that you feel is relevant, but you must explain why you are interested in Financial Engineering in general and the MSFE program at the University of Michigan in particular. In this video, you should also argue why you would be a good fit for the University of Michigan program, what your strengths and weaknesses are and what career options you see for yourself in the future.
Here is my draft:
Hello, my name is Yang Yuting. I am a senior student majoring in financial mathematics in the school of mathematics at Shandong university, a leading university in the research of financial mathematics in China. curious about how finance works to balance the market, I chose financial mathematics in my undergraduate study. some courses, such as time series, securities, options and futures, investment, could always lead me to think about the differential equations, methods for maximum, and feel the strong desire to price it, and to find the optimal portfolio.
During my two-month internship in an asset management company, I participated in running one of the best quantitative funds in China. there I saw how the quants work, and felt disappointed with the naive models and strategies for pricing. Fragile as it is, Chinese market is fulfilled with arbitraging opportunities. Thus I made up my mind to pursue further education in financial engineering.
My three years’ undergraduate education makes me a good fit for this program, with a solid mathematical background, unique intuition of the market, research enthusiasm, and team spirit. I have solid mathematical background and received the merit student scholarship every year. The four-month internship in the sales department and asset managing company taught me how to analyze and trace the portfolio, and communicate with the clients. When participating in the American interdisciplinary modeling competition, I built up the model and find the optimal solution with Matlab. Besides, I served as the monitor of my class for two years, and have organized various social and academic activities, including the weekly discussion class, where the students share opinions about the hot financial issues and homework problems.
However, I don't have a good command of C++ programming. In order to make up for that, I am studying SAS, and taking the online C++ courses led by Dr. Daniel Duffy, Baruch college. As an interdisciplinary program with the balanced curriculum, I think FE program in U-Michi could help me combine my knowledge of mathematics and finance with programming well, and further develop my optimization and risk-management ability.
After graduation, I want to work in hedge fund or investment bank in wall street to cumulate experience, while in long term, I’ll return to China to seek my career and or work in the Chinese investment cooperation to help companies control their risk. Owning the good international fame and ranking top 10 in the wall street, I believe he FE program in university of Michigan-Ann Arbor could help me realize my dream.
I have written a draft for that, but it seems a little too long, the target length is 250-320 words.
Please get some revising advises.
Here is the requirement:
introducing yourself. You may give any information about yourself that you feel is relevant, but you must explain why you are interested in Financial Engineering in general and the MSFE program at the University of Michigan in particular. In this video, you should also argue why you would be a good fit for the University of Michigan program, what your strengths and weaknesses are and what career options you see for yourself in the future.
Here is my draft:
Hello, my name is Yang Yuting. I am a senior student majoring in financial mathematics in the school of mathematics at Shandong university, a leading university in the research of financial mathematics in China. curious about how finance works to balance the market, I chose financial mathematics in my undergraduate study. some courses, such as time series, securities, options and futures, investment, could always lead me to think about the differential equations, methods for maximum, and feel the strong desire to price it, and to find the optimal portfolio.
During my two-month internship in an asset management company, I participated in running one of the best quantitative funds in China. there I saw how the quants work, and felt disappointed with the naive models and strategies for pricing. Fragile as it is, Chinese market is fulfilled with arbitraging opportunities. Thus I made up my mind to pursue further education in financial engineering.
My three years’ undergraduate education makes me a good fit for this program, with a solid mathematical background, unique intuition of the market, research enthusiasm, and team spirit. I have solid mathematical background and received the merit student scholarship every year. The four-month internship in the sales department and asset managing company taught me how to analyze and trace the portfolio, and communicate with the clients. When participating in the American interdisciplinary modeling competition, I built up the model and find the optimal solution with Matlab. Besides, I served as the monitor of my class for two years, and have organized various social and academic activities, including the weekly discussion class, where the students share opinions about the hot financial issues and homework problems.
However, I don't have a good command of C++ programming. In order to make up for that, I am studying SAS, and taking the online C++ courses led by Dr. Daniel Duffy, Baruch college. As an interdisciplinary program with the balanced curriculum, I think FE program in U-Michi could help me combine my knowledge of mathematics and finance with programming well, and further develop my optimization and risk-management ability.
After graduation, I want to work in hedge fund or investment bank in wall street to cumulate experience, while in long term, I’ll return to China to seek my career and or work in the Chinese investment cooperation to help companies control their risk. Owning the good international fame and ranking top 10 in the wall street, I believe he FE program in university of Michigan-Ann Arbor could help me realize my dream.