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Princeton MFin Interview Tips for Princeton MFin

Interviews are an arbitrary thing to begin with since every candidates application is different. Depending on what you've stated in your SOP / shown in your resume & application, the committee probably has different things they want to get out of each candidate before providing admission. I guess it also helps that the program is so selective / small, I'm guessing if the program was much larger they would have to standardize the process like some of the MBA programs do (i.e. Wharton or even MIT's MFIN)
 
josephron said:
Could you share a bit about your background?
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Yeah, dual BS in applied math and industrial engineering from university of illinois. A master from Harvard. 3.6-3.7 GPA in both schools. 2yrs experience in Microsoft and 2 yrs experience in a top hedge fund, both role are software engineering though. V162 + Q170 + AWA 3.5 GRE. No research experience or anything. I position myself as strong candidate but nothing super star at all.
 
noether-skolem said:
To the best of my knowledge, no. But I never actually had one so take that with a huge spoonful of salt.
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The Email said the alumni interview is a "brief" one. So I doubt if it will be a technical one. Anyway, there nothing too much we can tell until the decision day. So I'd rather just do what I got to do and hope for the best.
 
Zelong Qiu said:
Yeah, dual BS in applied math and industrial engineering from university of illinois. A master from Harvard. 3.6-3.7 GPA in both schools. 2yrs experience in Microsoft and 2 yrs experience in a top hedge fund, both role are software engineering though. V162 + Q170 + AWA 3.5 GRE. No research experience or anything. I position myself as strong candidate but nothing super star at all.
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Lmao your trolling at this point. You are a superb candidate. You work at very good companies, your probably one of the top candidates.
 
_xd said:
I also received one invitation 24 hours after my initial interview. The email stresses that the alumni interview is brief and not guaranteed.
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Yeah, I think the process maybe different from previous years and the second round is more like "we want to know a bit more about you". Good luck to everyone :)
 
What is the first interview like? More like just behavioral or CV discussion?
 
Is it guaranteed that the decisions will come out March 15? Could they come out in batches/rolling or is it standardized?
 
josephron said:
Is it guaranteed that the decisions will come out March 15? Could they come out in batches/rolling or is it standardized?
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I don't know where you got March 15 from, but they've typically come out before then (like first week of march/last week of February)
 
anonym said:
3.8+ CGPA, 4.0 major GPA. Worked at OTPP for 16 months in risk with traders, doing a thesis in reinforcement learning. From a top Canadian university studying financial engineering.
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wow very interesting profile - really different from the previous profiles posted
 
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