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Just for data point, I interviewed yesterday night and got an alumni interview invite today morning.
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Could you share a bit about your background?
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If I recall correctly Princeton invites ~100 people for the first interview and admit ~25-30 of them? I guess depending on your confidence, getting a second interview could mean anywhere between "Yay I'm close to the top 30" to "Shit I'm not among the top 10".
I think an alumni interview is generally a good thing, because based off prior years posts it seems like most people who got in had Alumni interviews. That being said Ms. Bracken hadn't even mentioned an alumni interview when I asked about it, so I either bombed it or it doesn't really matter :^)
I think they admit somewhere around 40 or so folks because the total class size they target is around 20-30, assuming that like 50-60% of the accepted candidates take the offer that would land around 20-30 students in the forthcoming classes, don't know how COVID is changing things though
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Last year 33 offers sent, 24 accepted with 4 deferrals.
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Quant Guide 2021: Princeton University (Bendheim Center for Finance) - Risk.net
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Got it, thanks for the correction!Last year 33 offers sent, 24 accepted with 4 deferrals.
Quant Guide 2021: Princeton University (Bendheim Center for Finance) - Risk.net
Princeton, New Jersey, US
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Are the top people in the pool usually not interviewed by alumni at all?
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I don't think anyone can really answer that other than those in the admission office of the program. I do seem to recall that there have been people with exceptional background who got admitted without a second interview, but of course I have no idea if they were among the top of the applicant pool or not.
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Got it thank you. Also do you know if these alumni interviews are technical?
There was at least one candidate who had their second round interview scheduled prior to their first last year, so if that was truly the case then the alumni interview seems more like it's an additional data point for the committee (maybe if a candidate doesn't have a strong finance/quanty background, I don't really have a good intuition for this)
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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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Last year people got in without second round interviews. That being said alumni interviews are some what technical from what I’ve heard. Think markets and stats. Also this year the director has changed so the entire admissions process could’ve changed.
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Stats as in statistics or stats as in market stats
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Statistics from people in the program I’ve heard from. As well as markets in general. Depends on the alumni’s background as well. It can go behavioral or technical again depends on the alumni.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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