CMU MSCF What's the idea structure of essay B?

[Stefan Du]

Hi, could anyone here give me some advice about the structure of essay B? It ask you to describe your background and preparation in the four concentration areas of the MSCF program – finance, computer science, math and statistics.

I have two methods to describe my experience but due to the restriction of number of words, I can choose only one:

1 I have 4 projects synthesized 3 concentrations (Stat, CS, Finance) and they have relations: I built models to predict the market and through these 4 projects, I gained experiences and improved the model. I am going to write along this line, describe the experience and talk about the growth of my understanding and what I have learnt related to the predictive models.

2 Ignore the relation between these 4 projects. Describe every projects and be more specific about my experience and what technical skills I have learnt like using Matlab do data cleaning.

Which is better? Is there any ways to improve one of these methods or combine them under the words limit?

Thanks!

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I just did a quick search for "essay B" and there are dozens of threads from CMU MSCF applicants on this topic so you should get plenty of info from it.

 

[Stefan Du]

I just did a quick search for "essay B" and there are dozens of threads from CMU MSCF applicants on this topic so you should get plenty of info from it.

Thanks Andy, I will do my search again. But I still hope someone could give me some advice related to this specific question.