Need help with polishing my resume for Masters in Quant

[redmastic]

@Andy Nguyen
@MikeLawrence

Hey there! I'm currently a 2nd year undergraduate student at a tier-1 university in India. (my total course duration is 4 years, so still ~2 years to go for completing my undergrad.)
I'll be getting Bsc.(Hons) Computer Science at the end of 4 years of my undergrad.

My current CGPA is 8.2/10 and, expected CGPA at the end of 4 years is >8.5/10.

I would be graduating in june 2027 and would want to apply for fall 2027 intake

I'm inclined towards EU -- Oxford/Imperial/Cambridge specifically.

Oxford requires a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours (which means 8.0 out of 10.0 for my country-India for strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours.)

Oxford neither requires GRE not any publications/research papers

Apart from this, I completed an Internship at Oxford as an AI & Deep learning intern under a postdoc fellow (by the end of my 1st year)
Right now, working as a Quant Research Intern at a relatively smaller Indian Firm -- working with Crypto

What do you think about my profile? Your guidance could genuinely help me get in!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

The only Indian applicant who got accepted to Oxford MCF program this year is @ram_havya who got a 9.75/10 from IIT.
Other admitted applicants seem to have a degree in math or stats. It appears they favor candidates with more mathematical maturity who can handle the course work there.

R

University of Oxford

4/11/25

MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

• ram_havya
• United Kingdom & Europe

R

Thread 'Decision between Oxford's MCF and EPFL's MFE'

4/10/25

Hello everyone,

I’m a quantitative researcher with nearly two years of experience, and I’ve applied to several master’s programs this year. Last month, I was offered a place in Oxford's Mathematical and Computational Finance (MCF) program, and I’m in the process of arranging funding (around £70k). However, just a few days ago, I also received an offer from EPFL for their Master's in Financial Engineering (MFE) program, which comes with an Excellence scholarship covering nearly all tuition and living expenses.
Both programs offer courses that align with my career goals, and I’m...

• ram_havya
• Replies: 9
• Forum: United Kingdom & Europe

 

[ram_havya]

The only Indian applicant who got accepted to Oxford MCF program this year is @ram_havya who got a 9.75/10 from IIT.
Other admitted applicants seem to have a degree in math or stats. It appears they favor candidates with more mathematical maturity who can handle the course work there.

R

University of Oxford

4/11/25

MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

• ram_havya
• United Kingdom & Europe

R

Thread 'Decision between Oxford's MCF and EPFL's MFE'

4/10/25

Hello everyone,

I’m a quantitative researcher with nearly two years of experience, and I’ve applied to several master’s programs this year. Last month, I was offered a place in Oxford's Mathematical and Computational Finance (MCF) program, and I’m in the process of arranging funding (around £70k). However, just a few days ago, I also received an offer from EPFL for their Master's in Financial Engineering (MFE) program, which comes with an Excellence scholarship covering nearly all tuition and living expenses.
Both programs offer courses that align with my career goals, and I’m...

• ram_havya
• Replies: 9
• Forum: United Kingdom & Europe

My suggestion for @redmastic would be to take any relevant math courses during your bachelor's, if possible, that could set the foundations for the courses offered by the MCF program, and to maintain a good GPA well above the cutoff mentioned on the MCF website throughout the bachelor’s. If you want to go to Oxford’s MCF right after graduating, then make sure you also have relevant internships in a financial firm or have done some research in this computational finance space, either through a thesis or, otherwise, a publication is not necessary, but wouldn’t hurt. Since you interned at Oxford already, this could help too. All of these should help. To give context on my profile, I was a computer science graduate from IIT Bombay. I did a lot of machine learning/ deep learning courses, and my thesis was on speech recognition and got my work published, but I did very few math courses during my bachelor’s. I graduated with honours and maintained a very high GPA(9.85/10), and have been working for 2 years now as a quantitative researcher at a high-frequency trading firm, this must have helped me get the admission. I was also selected for International mathematics, physics and chemistry camps during high school, and this might have also helped me.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Really impressive profile @ram_havya
Are you set to join Oxford MCF?

 

[ram_havya]

Really impressive profile @ram_havya
Are you set to join Oxford MCF?

I'm thinking not. I haven't heard from them about any scholarship, I will be joining EPFL unless I get a scholarship to cover most of the tuition fee to study at Oxford. Last week, they informed that scholarships for the MCF program are rare and that the majority of the students fund themselves fully. This said, Oxford releases scholarships till mid-June, so I'm still not sure about going to Oxford.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I'm thinking not. I haven't heard from them about any scholarship, I will be joining EPFL unless I get a scholarship to cover most of the tuition fee to study at Oxford. Last week, they informed that scholarships for the MCF program are rare and that the majority of the students fund themselves fully. This said, Oxford releases scholarships till mid-June, so I'm still not sure about going to Oxford.

Makes sense. I haven't seen any Oxford admit with a scholarship on the Tracker. When they say it's rare, it's really rare
Please let us know if you hear back about the scholarship and when you make the final decision.

 

[ram_havya]

Makes sense. I haven't seen any Oxford admit with a scholarship on the Tracker. When they say it's rare, it's really rare
Please let us know if you hear back about the scholarship and when you make the final decision.

Yes, I will update my resources page with the information.