申请MSF/金融数学/金工求定位

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hrx_rachel123 发表于 2014-7-19 14:52
math/stat course: calculus and differential equations, linear algebra, probability and statistics

programing language: NONE

econ course: micro econ, macro econ, IET

others for reference: financial math, financial econometrics, FE

well.........
some more academic MFE will require some senior year applied math & stat course, e.g. numerical analysis, (partial) differential equation, stochastic process, time series and etc..........
while some more practical program (or more business one) will have less
to be precise, one need to view each website of the program and feel how much they emphasis on mathematics, but in general yours is just at and reached most of minimum requirement

Programming..........what are you using for your datamining job then? MFE is all about implementation, and programming is a must for it. Learning it while the program will results in tons of sleepless night, not the mention that some may even consider as a weak point while admission (especially engineering school.......)

Economics.......that's not important for MFE, but important for applied economics / financial economics.
In general a solid program requires appliants to have studied intermediate micro & macro, and also econometrics, unless they have a very solid quantitative background.

P.S. 我其實很懷疑樓上的那位, 連樓主的數課上過多少都不知道的情況下, 如何估計取錄的機會........

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-7-19 17:59
well.........
some more academic MFE will require some senior year的applied math & stat course, ...

机会渺茫吗？%>_<%

大学的时候觉得课程不够，倒是有自学数学咧~不是很扎实，不过有涉及numerical analysis, (partial) differential equation, stochastic process, time series这些

接下来打算自学programming

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hrx_rachel123 发表于 2014-7-19 18:58
机会渺茫吗？%>_

我覺得要想的問題, 主要不是機會渺茫與否, 而是你會接受到低去甚麼級別的課程.........

自學的唯一用途是, 如果有admission test/interview的話, 可以表現出來, 要不都是白幹.

Programming比數學更易自學, 更重要的相信是, having more hand-on experience, 多動手coding.
個人估計, US的話, top 5 如princeton, NYU, CMU, UBC, Columbia MFE的機會極少,
重點試衝一流稍弱一丁點的, 如chicago, Cornell, Columbia MAFN等等.
再申一堆其他二流的補底.

加拿大對專業對口有更嚴格的要求.....建議省下申請費, 因為你的comparative advantage不在這方面.
也可以考慮一下英國的top 6 的financial math / financial engineering

P.S. oxford ms cf , and warwick msc fina math put their admission test online, you may look at those for reference.

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-7-19 19:13
我覺得要想的問題, 主要不是機會渺茫與否, 而是你會接受到低去甚麼級別的課程.........

自學的唯一用 ...

thx a lot！！！

心中有数了 （一开始无头苍蝇一样，觉得清楚，但是还是会乱）

话说二流是指50开外的吗？

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hrx_rachel123 发表于 2014-7-19 20:46
thx a lot！！！

心中有数了 （一开始无头苍蝇一样，觉得清楚，但是还是会乱）

二流是指有MFE的學校當中, top 10左右開外.

MFE的對口工作單位不多, top 5很穩妥,
top school 但稍弱, 或是strong local specialist (e.g. baurch)的也不錯.

到了top 20開外的話.....找工作時就只能extreme good luck


P.S. 有關MFE的學校不多, 所以overall all university ranking不能直接apply.

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-7-19 19:13
我覺得要想的問題, 主要不是機會渺茫與否, 而是你會接受到低去甚麼級別的課程.........

自學的唯一用 ...

请问“加拿大专业对口更严格”，可否理解为申toronto的mmf,或者 waterloo mqf更看重数学背景和编程背景？

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charlenelau 发表于 2014-8-19 21:38
请问“加拿大专业对口更严格”，可否理解为申toronto的mmf,或者 waterloo mqf更看重数学背景和编程背景？

as far as what i feel from their website, yes in averag when compared with US.

but for US, some of them, especially quite some hosted by math school (and hen engineering school), have detailed requirement on mathematical background (Rutgers MSFM is a good example)

Waterloo, is one of the strictest math-required MFE i will say..........seldom MFE list out real analysis is strong recommended.......

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-8-20 06:50
as far as what i feel from their website, yes in averag when compared with US.

but for US, some ...

thank you so much! btw，could you pls give me some advice personally about my application? Pls Refer to https://bbs.gter.net/forum.php?mo ... age=1#pid1778761222  
thx again ~

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FEandCS2014 发表于 2014-7-16 05:13
1 希望不大 2 希望很大 但最近越来越水 3 基本没戏 4 感觉很水 因为周围根本没人去读过这个学校 5 也没听过 ...

usc现在开msf了，另外奥斯丁的msf虽然12年开的，项目时间不长，不过貌似做得蛮好的

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charlenelau 发表于 2014-8-20 10:55
thank you so much! btw，could you pls give me some advice personally about my application? Pls Ref ...

for me
i will suggesg just apply lv 1, 2 and most of 3
forget 4 but juse hkust nus and ntu as safty

waterloo worth consider, since tornoto and id is the only two quant school for mfe
lv 3 safety school, i think no need apply all, just select some god one
btw i don think you tofek need exam again…just prepare better oral conversation while interview

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cheesechan 发表于 2014-8-20 17:19
for me
i will suggesg just apply lv 1, 2 and most of 3
forget 4 but juse hkust nus and ntu as s ...

thx a lot! and since toronto and cornell never admit those were admitted by some other good programs like lv 1 directly, even no waitinglist, according to seniors experience. so I think the opportunity for these two programs is little for me. What do you think about such a problem?

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charlenelau 发表于 2014-8-20 18:04
thx a lot! and since toronto and cornell never admit those were admitted by some other good progra ...

the key point seems to be how many reference letter you can have……

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