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Guidance for pursuing MFE in US

nickD

nickD

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I'm a programmer with 3 years of experience as Software Developer at an MNC. My work ex is completely in C projects many of whom are commercialized. I am thinking of pursuing an MFE degree in the US. What are the chances of my making a career in Trading space.I am applying for Fall 2019.

As I said, I do not have any official work ex or degree in the field of Finance or Maths. However, I have done some online courses on Finance, Statistics, ML and Options Trading. Also, I have been doing some Shares and Options Trading on my own for a year now. In my engineering I had Mathematics in 4 semesters.
I am thinking of applying to:
1. NYU Tandon School of Engineering (Masters Financial Engineering)
2. Georgia Institute of Technology (Quantitative & Computational Finance)
3. Baruch College (Financial Engineering)
4. University of Washington (Computational Finance and Risk Management)

Do you think I have chances of getting into one of these colleges. I have GRE score of 324 (Q - 167, V - 157, AWA - 4.0) and expecting TOEFL score of 100+.
I have CGPA of 8.3 in B.Tech, CS from VJTI, Mumbai
 
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> I have GRE score of 324

For most schools, your subscores (especially quantitative) matter more than the composite. You might get more informed responses if you include those.

Best of luck!
 
umqfrm said:
> I have GRE score of 324

For most schools, your subscores (especially quantitative) matter more than the composite. You might get more informed responses if you include those.

Best of luck!
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Thanks for pointing that out :)
 
I agree, include all scores. Also, you have relevant work experience which is nice. Do you have all the math prerequisites? Probability is an important one.

Also, you could start a small financial math research project which you could speak of in your letter.
 
I updated my scores.. what are my chances for aforementioned universities?
 
Mikey V said:
I agree, include all scores. Also, you have relevant work experience which is nice. Do you have all the math prerequisites? Probability is an important one.

Also, you could start a small financial math research project which you could speak of in your letter.
Click to expand...

I updated my scores.. what are my chances for aforementioned universities?
 
umqfrm said:
> I have GRE score of 324

For most schools, your subscores (especially quantitative) matter more than the composite. You might get more informed responses if you include those.

Best of luck!
Click to expand...

I updated my scores.. what are my chances for the aforementioned universities?
 
Michsund said:
where did you update them ? I can't see them.
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In the post. Anyway, here it is, GRE score of 324 (Quant - 167, Verbal - 157, AWA - 4.0) and expecting TOEFL score of 100+.
CGPA of 8.3 in B.Tech, CS from VJTI, Mumbai
 
I think you can get into Georgia tech. For NYU Tandon I know there average GRE quant is 169.3 so maybe that’s a reach. Just again it’s a guess.
 
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