Profile Evaluation

[Jooowang]

Could anyone give some suggestions on my profile and application? I would really appreciate if you could give me some suggestions!!! (I have read the trackers but it is hard to find someone to be an exact match)


Profile:

Senior at Claremont McKenna College (Ranked #9 by U.S. News Liberal Arts College in U.S.)

Major I: Economics
Major II: Applied Mathematics
Minor: Finance

GPA: 3.83 Major GPA: 3.95

GRE: Q-170 V-165

Experience:
-Two finance internship:
A large asset management firm in U.S. ($70 billion AUM)
PWC Corp fin M&A team in Shanghai, China

Research:
Research Assitant on Economic Forecasting
Senior Research on Sector response to monetary policy, positive on publication in two years

Relevant Coursework:

Math: Calculus, Linear Algebra, P/ODE, Calculus-based probability, Stochastic Processes, Fin Math, Real/Complex Analysis

CS: Two courses using Python, Java, and Racket. Will take data structure and program development next semester using c++

Finance: Accounting, Corp Fin, Investment & Valuation, Derivatives, Financial Statement Analysis, Intermediate Micro- Macro- Economics


Programs I plan to apply to:

Princeton, Baruch, Columbia MFE, UCB, CMU, MIT, Stanford, NYU, U Chicago, UCLA and GIT

Among these schools, which group do I have the best chance of getting into? Also, do I have enough safety schools if I really want to play safe and make sure I will have at least one school that admits me?

Thank you so much!!!

 

[Jooowang]

Please help!!!!!

 

[Jooowang]

Anyone? Please guys!!!

 

[Ken Abbott]

Anyone? Please guys!!!

Your application will be stronger with real work experience. Teach at NYU and Baruch (and at Claremont Grad School as well). I see backgrounds like this all the time. What often distinguished them is the actual work experience.

 

[Jooowang]

Your application will be stronger with real work experience. Teach at NYU and Baruch (and at Claremont Grad School as well). I see backgrounds like this all the time. What often distinguished them is the actual work experience.

Hi Ken, thanks for your reply! Yes, I have this problem that I don't have any quantitative experience but I do have two finance experience in the past, one at Fortress Investment Group and one at PWC IB section. Will this compensate or be transferable?

Due to the nature of my school, (mostly investment banking front office roles and management consulting), few quantitative roles recruit from CMC. I tried to do finance at first but then I realize I really really love math and computer science and I have been taking these courses at my next door engineering school HMC. I really want math and CS to be part of my career. That's why I am trying to apply for the FE programs. It's kind of a tricky shift I know and I did not find many people like this. Most people are shifting from CS EE to FE.

 

[xugouzi]

you background is very strong and a perfect fit of all top MFE programs such as Princeton,CMU or Columbia. If you check current student profiles of these schools, you will find you are very competitive in the fresh undergraduates pool which composes at least 50 % of entire student class of these top MFE programs except UCB.
Have you received interview invites from Princeton ?