Columbia MFE Columbia MFE Admission Discussion

[Juny]

Maybe the admission team is sorting the applicants to give an offer

 

[Geekynoob]

Wow, they are still sending interview invites. Looks like easily 200 ppl have been interviewed

 

[tianxias]

Wow, they are still sending interview invites. Looks like easily 200 ppl have been interviewed

Yes, because there is no cost for interview. It is just fully automatic. It looks like there are many interview invites, just as last year 2017.

 

[tianxias]

Wow, they are still sending interview invites. Looks like easily 200 ppl have been interviewed

So we can imagine there will be a lot of rejection coming out in March. I guess it will be 60% rejections among all applicants receiving interview invites.

 

[Geekynoob]

There's no cost, agreed. But isn't it difficult to judge based on behavioral interview as opposed to a well compiled profile? I didn't even have much time after office, gave my interview in a haste, without prep, no re-recordings, and gave it in low lit room. If you just judge me based on interview, you would most likely reject me.

 

[CavQuant]

There's no cost, agreed. But isn't it difficult to judge based on behavioral interview as opposed to a well compiled profile? I didn't even have much time after office, gave my interview in a haste, without prep, no re-recordings, and gave it in low lit room. If you just judge me based on interview, you would most likely reject me.

I think that says a lot about your candidacy if you blew off the interview. If you show a lack of preparation in the interview for the school, what should Columbia think about your preparation towards job interviews or your interest in the school itself? At the end of the day, an MFE is a professional degree, and being hireable is important for these programs.

 

[Meandonlyme]

200 Interviews sounds about right for 100 places.

 

[jiafei]

same automated one? with 5 questions.

Yeah. Just doing it for fun, already have another offer. It looks like there are more programs are using this automated interview recently.

 

[Matt A]

But wouldn't they be admitting far more than 100 out of the ~200 people interviewed? Their class size was around 100 this year if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Juny]

So we can imagine there will be a lot of rejection coming out in March. I guess it will be 60% rejections among all applicants receiving interview invites.

Based on the last year’s tracker, 55 people had done the interview and 37 people got admitted.
So I guess there is 67% chance to get an offer after the interview, but we can’t judge all depending on the tracker.

 

[Juny]

I think that says a lot about your candidacy if you blew off the interview. If you show a lack of preparation in the interview for the school, what should Columbia think about your preparation towards job interviews or your interest in the school itself? At the end of the day, an MFE is a professional degree, and being hireable is important for these programs.

I agree with you.

Also, all applicants who have received an interview invite have the similar level of candidacy. It’s kind of a zero based competition within those applicants. Appealing the hunger to learn financial engineering and giving insightful answers are important in this behavioral interview. The interview questions might seem simple and easy, but the depth of the answers is all depending on the applicants.

 

[Geekynoob]

That week I was in the office for an average 15 hrs a day. That's banking unfortunately. Couldn't find time.

 

[Aadithya Narayanan]

Hey, let's get to kNow our prospective classmates, (just to ease our anxiety)
@Geekynoob: which bank do you work for ?? Everyone, please join the discussion.

 

[Geekynoob]

Credit Suisse. About to join a HFT firm.

However, I don't think I would be selected anywhere.

 

[Aadithya Narayanan]

@Geekynoob : that's great. You will get in this time, that's my hunch.

 

[Susan Chen]

Since they are still sending out interviews, it seems likely that the results will be out later than last year.

 

[Geekynoob]

I think they will start the first round of results by 5th March.

Susan, when is your deadline to confirm for Cornell?

 

[Susan Chen]

I think they will start the first round of results by 5th March.

Susan, when is your deadline to confirm for Cornell?

Oh then maybe I should expect to get both the results form CMU and Columbia on 5th Mar. lol.
The ddl for Cornell is 15th April, pretty lenient.

 

[Zhaofeng Liao]

THE most horrible thing just happened to me...I missed the first email for the interview invitation, because it went into spam...and when I received the reminder, it expired already!!!

 

[Geekynoob]

Please call admission department. Send an email too, but give them a call during their working hours and explain the situation.