UCLA MFE UCLA MFE Admission Discussion

[Bahar Abghari]

Hi, i was on a trip and just got saw your comment.
Sure, the interview was very good and comfy, no technical Q, mostly about your background and resume plus why mfe and why ucla. In the end also couple of brain teasers!
They said they will let me know of their decision by end of june!

 

[Vipul Sharma]

Hi, I want to pursue financial engineering from UCLA....Recently wrote GRE and scored 316(Verbal-150,Quant-166)....i am having 3.5+ years of work ex....Do u have any idea about the chances of admission at this score????....could u please suggest some good universities other than UCLA where i might have a chance of admission????.....Thanks

 

[antonycm]

Is there anyone who applied in the 3rd cycle and received some update from Ucla?

 

[dexter_]

Did anyone hear back from UCLA regarding round 3 results ?

 

[Kou]

yep, some of them got admit in the third round

 

[Bahar Abghari]

Did anyone hear back from UCLA regarding round 3 results ?

Hi Dexter,

yeah I got an offer, not sure if I want to accept or not yet. How about you?

 

[dexter_]

I got an offer too.

 

[Bahar Abghari]

I got an offer too.

Nice. Congrats. Are you going to attend? we might meet there!

 

[dexter_]

Congratulations to you too..

I am planning to join it. How about you ?

 

[dvaysburd]

If you were admitted to the UCLA MFE and plan to attend, please comment here below! Perhaps this could be useful in helping to find like-minded roommates.

A little about me:

• UCLA Undergrad, Mechanical Engineering
• Work experience in some research labs and at Boeing Satellite Systems
• Interested in asset management

 

[pushkark]

Has anyone received an interview invite yet from UCLA MFE program?

 

[Jose Cespedes]

I received an invite a couple of weeks ago... actually today I received an admission recommendation to be admitted to UCLA MFE. It is not the official admission offer yet, I will receive that one after they go through a due dilligence process, which is why I haven't updated the tracker yet.

I am unsure if they're still in the process of sending out interviews. Their decision deadline for this round is March 10 so to me I would guess that after the end of this week it would be a little late to be sending out interview invites although anything is possible.

 

[pushkark]

Congrats for your selection. What were the interview questions Jose? I just got an interview invite.

 

[Jose Cespedes]

Congrats for your selection. What were the interview questions Jose? I just got an interview invite.

I believe that divulging the questions that I got would be inappropriate. What I can tell you is that as they briefly and ambigiously specify they will ask you a set of questions to get a feel for who you are as a person (behavioral) and a couple of questions to test your quantitative skills.

Without going into detail it would be safe to say that you should be prepared to answer questions about your career, your experience, your aspirations and your interest in UCLA in the program. It would also be safe to say that you could get asked a couple of very basic quantitative questions. Without telling you what they were you can expect it to cover various fields like Statistics, Programming, Calculus, Algebra. I found that the level of depth of the questions was not very deep and it is more a test to see how you can convey and organize your thoughts about mathematics and communicate them in a simple way.

There is a time limit to prepare after listening to each question, there is a time limit to answer each questions and you cannot re-record unlike the Columbia interview.

 

[Matt A]

Congrats Jose! I just got the recommendation for admission yesterday aswell. I'm confused because you said you were interviewed, but I only did the video interview through an external website. I was under the impression that every applicant was required to complete this video interview. I never actually talked to anyone.

Edit: Now I see that it looks like you went through the same process as me.

 

[Zicheng Liu]

Hi Matt! I just got the same video interview invitation as yours. Would you mind if you could give me some hints on the interview questions?

Thank you very much!

 

[Matt A]

Hi Matt! I just got the same video interview invitation as yours. Would you mind if you could give me some hints on the interview questions?

Thank you very much!

Hey zicheng congrats! Jose made a good post above which covers pretty much everything you need to know. I cant really think of anything to add to his post. Good luck!

 

[Devharsh]

Hi everyone got an email from UCLA that the going forward decision will be emailed on rolling basis.. And it is being actively reviewed. Also do all the applicants get an video interview invitation. Can someone please help me with the above query.. Thanks

 

[troybarnes]

Has anyone heard back from UCLA round 3 yet? Got nothing back so far and getting worried

 

[RahulRaj]

No communication yet ... when have you had your interview?