Low GPA- Am i cooked?

[anaysk]

Hey, I am currently in my 4th year studying Btech in Computer Engineering in India planning to apply for fall 2026 intake my overall GPA till 6th semester is 8.03/10 and my math courses grades are a bit low- Calculus-D-4/10,Linear algebra-A+-9/10 and Statistics-A-8/10. I am currently interning at a Startup as a Quantitative Developer and i have worked as a Research intern in my College but that was not finance related and i plan to take GRE and TOEFL soon.I want to offset my low math grade and make my profile stronger so i am doing my capstone project a bit more math related and for which i will try to write and publish a research paper as well.Other than that I plan to take Gre math test and also courses like Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance(idk which other courses to take)..My capstone project mainly focuses on Calculus and its application in real world and combined with Machine Learning. My goal is to make my application very strong by the end of this year and i want suggestions to do so.Any advice from you all would be very helpful.Thank You!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

You are cooked, well done, finished!!!
Some people will say that but I would point you to many examples that show otherwise.

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I wanted to share my journey to getting accepted into Columbia's MAFN program, NYU's MFE, NCSU's Mathematical Finance, and Nanyang Business School's MFE in Singapore. I'm still waiting on decisions from Columbia's MFE and GaTech's QCF. My hope is that this post helps those who feel limited by a low CGPA but are passionate about breaking into the world of quantitative finance.

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