MIT MFin MIT MFin Admission Discussion

[devconnolly]

Nice! Think the highest i heard from last year was 50k for the 12 month, and 70k for the 18 month.

Must be nice! Mine wasn't quite as high as that.

 

[hoyuan]

Anyone on the waitlist?

 

[shortvix]

Yap. I am on WL. Anybody else?

 

[hoyuan]

Yap. I am on WL. Anybody else?

I‘m on the WL.

 

[scramble]

hey, has anyone heard back from the waitlist yet?

 

[shortvix]

No not yet. Do post if you hear anything from them.

 

[Vatey]

Hi! Have anyone who is applying to MIT Mfin Round 2 (deadline Jan 06 2020) for the 2020 intake received an invite to the interview? The application confirmation email said that they will send out invitation in late Jan, but I haven’t seen anyone posted about this topic on the forum yet as of now.

 

[jmzfwjnfw]

I haven't heard back yet. Also, I think it would be better for you to add the prefix filter "mit mfin" to your post -- this way more MIT applicants will be able to locate this post.
fyi: Quant Programs

 

[Jayant Panwar]

Hi! I just received an invite from MIT MFin for an interview. It is scheduled on 14th Feb.

 

[fsez]

I received an invite too. There is a quantiative assessment section for 15 minutes? Any idea what that is about?

 

[Jayant Panwar]

I've heard alumni say that it's pretty basic and people who have received an interview invite should be be able to guide through it easily. Don't know the specifics though.

 

[jmzfwjnfw]

Does anyone know if all the invites have been sent already? thx!

 

[Finengg]

I've heard alumni say that it's pretty basic and people who have received an interview invite should be be able to guide through it easily. Don't know the specifics though.

what do they generally ask? Math, programming? Can you please elaborate slightly more on this. That should go a longg way in helping out!

 

[PongoShib]

going to cambridge on the 18th ;

@Finengg i think its just math

 

[onlineman]

good luck

 

[Potato Eater]

I've heard alumni say that it's pretty basic and people who have received an interview invite should be be able to guide through it easily. Don't know the specifics though.

So I have an interview early Feb and I am kinda freaking out about this assessment because I haven't taken a calculus or linear algebra in 5/4 years and I need to refresh on the topics. Do you know if it will be questions on these subjects that we should know, or if it is a generic quantitative assessment like the GRE or some IQ test? Thanks!

 

[fsez]

Hello,

The interview invite for MIT MFIN mentioned a quantitative assessment section. Can anybody elaborate on what this is about?

 

[smiguel]

I don't know what it will be about. I'm just practicing differential and integral calculus, differential equations and some stats. What are you studying?

 

[bambuu]

I received an invite and will be interviewing on Wednesday. If anyone has any insight on the quantitative assessment I will gladly take it! Good luck everyone!

 

[pretty new]

Just did my mfin interview last week. Interviewer was very kind and chill. The 15 minute quant section was pretty straightforward, and as many have mentioned, if you have the quant courses background for this program you shouldn’t have a problem. New to this year is a separate 5 minute basic coding question. I was lucky in that I took a programming class during my final semester so I kinda solved it, probably with some syntax errors though. According to some other interviewees who asked about the coding part, what I hear - and only what I heard 2nd hand, not from an admissions officer - is that if you're not from a coding background and it's not one of your skillsets then generally they don't expect you to complete the coding part anyways.

Edit: removed some details to be closer to the level of detail that most other posts go to