Quantnet MFE Application Tracker

[Deleted member 2387]

@Andy Nguyen. If you build it. They Will Come.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

NYU just took the lead in the number of cases tracked. I hope to beat the magic 1,000 number when the 2011 admission season is over.

 

[Paul Mithouard]

NYU just took the lead in the number of cases tracked. I hope to beat the magic 1,000 number when the 2011 admission season is over.

With CMU & Berkeley round 3 & 4 everything is possible
Columbia& Baruch &NYu seems to have so many applicants. I wish i could see the exact figures

 

[Andy Nguyen]

We currently have 53 MFE/MathFin programs in our Tracker with 1260+ cases and growing fast.

If you notice any notable MFE programs missing in our Tracker, please let me know.

 

[Umnik]

Bocconi MathFinRisk, Italy - http://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/co...titative+Finance+and+Risk+Management/?lang=en

Erasmus Rotterdam
http://www.eur.nl/master/masteropleidingen/masters/econometrics_management/quantitative_finance/

Waterloo, Canada
http://sas.uwaterloo.ca/finance/

HEC Montreal (in French)
http://www.hec.ca/en/programs_training/msc/options/finance/financial_engineering/index.html

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks Umnik
They are added now.

 

[KaiRu]

Master in Finance with spec. in Financial Engineering, HEC Lausanne.

http://www.hec.unil.ch/mscf/Welcome,
http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/masters/127


It was established in 1993 if I recall correctly but reorganized few years ago from 1 year to 2 years master program. If you search through linkedin there are a lot of people in FO in Europe who graduated from this program.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I guess HEC Lausanne FERM would be a good name that people can google up?

 

[KaiRu]

I guess HEC Lausanne FERM would be a good name that people can google up?

Actually, googling for "HEC Lausanne FERM" doesn't yield any reasonable resutls. Maybe "UNIL MScF - FE" or "HEC Lausanne - MScF - FE" would it a better choice? This program also has 2 more specializations which are held by other Swiss universities, but only in Lausanne one can study Financial Engineering.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Ok, change it to "HEC Lausanne MScF FE".
And I wonder why these European institutions have problems marketing their programs.

 

[KaiRu]

As for Switzerland, I have never heard that any Swiss university has advertised something outside of the country. It applies even to elite programs like Math / CS / Physics / Biology from ETHZ and EPFL.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Would the Tracker be more useful for you guys if we require people to enter GRE Q, GRE V, GRE AWA, GPA?
The way things are right now, we have to rely on the kindness of the applicants to supply those info. They have been entering those numbers but not in a format that is sortable.

Suggestion?

 

[BBB]

Yes, I would like if people had to enter their stats. It would give us more information about the competitiveness of our own applications.

 

[Li Cai]

Would the Tracker be more useful for you guys if we require people to enter GRE Q, GRE V, GRE AWA, GPA?
The way things are right now, we have to rely on the kindness of the applicants to supply those info. They have been entering those numbers but not in a format that is sortable.

Suggestion?

That would be so much more helpful. Maybe undergrad institution as well?

 

[jackcoke]

Would the Tracker be more useful for you guys if we require people to enter GRE Q, GRE V, GRE AWA, GPA?
The way things are right now, we have to rely on the kindness of the applicants to supply those info. They have been entering those numbers but not in a format that is sortable.

Suggestion?

I'm thinking maybe percentiles for GRE will be good to reconcile the old and new formats. GPA could have score and total score since not everyone converts to US standards.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

To make this universally applicable, I would add only the following fields: Undergrad GPA, GRE Q, GRE V, GRE AWA.
Other extra info (undergrad school, internship, award, programming skill, work experience) would go to the User note field.

Using the existing filters, one can easily display all applications who got admitted at program X and then can sort by GRE/GPA/etc. In sort, an invaluable glance of profiles of everyone admitted to that program.
This would be the easiest way to answer "please evaluate my profile at program X".

Sounds like a good idea?

 

[Umnik]

Would the Tracker be more useful for you guys if we require people to enter GRE Q, GRE V, GRE AWA, GPA?
The way things are right now, we have to rely on the kindness of the applicants to supply those info. They have been entering those numbers but not in a format that is sortable.

Suggestion?

I agree but I would also add major - to have background statistics

I have another question - may be there should be another tracker for PhD in FinEng or FinMat programs

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Ok guys I have the new fields set up. Please go ahead and help me repopulate your data.
Major/undergraduate institution/work experience/etc should go to the Notes field. I only have so much room to display data

 

[darth]

I think there should be a "/" symbol in GPA column . With GPA's like 4.53 and 6.04 it becomes difficult to guess the scale.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Yes you can.