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Just out of interest, are they just looking for full time positions or are there internships as well? I'm asking as I will need to look for a summer internship for next year (I'm doing the Cornell 3 semester ORIE FE program at the moment). @The people looking for a pdf converter, I'm pretty...

It'd be interesting to see a break-down of the average FE student nationalities. From what I've seen, the majority of applicants, students and forum users (here and at GD) seem to be asian or indian (US nationals or otherwise). Is there some reason that white people seem to steer clear of...

I did OR at undergrad and got to final round interviews (~10 ppl left) for IB positions at Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Bank last year in Australia (Didn't get the job though). Saying this, all others were finance/accounting graduates. You'll probably notice that some FE programs are housed...

You can game and still be successful. Hell, I'm an avid PC gamer (mostly RTS though) and I'm going to Cornell to study Financial Engineering with scholarships being chucked at me from all sides. Some of us are actually good at time management. But yeah don't spend too much time on that Xbox...

Sadly I fall under this category, although I did manage to also obtain 2 fellowships from Cornell's ORIE department and the engineering department in general, totaling $30k. I feel slightly guilty accepting them (though not really, they'll make a nice addition to the CV) when my dad was...

Dude don't worry about your undergrad university ranking. Case in point, I did undergrad at the University of Auckland (I doubt anyone on this forum has heard of it, let alone know of any professors or research to come out of it). Even though UoA is hardly prestigious on a global scale, I...

The third guest sounds like he is on crack - he comes across as an aggressive douche. Such a contrast in character to the other two. Props to the HFT dude who shoots him down.

Another vote for 'Dive into Python'. An awesome guide to Python tbh.

Obviously Australia has a bigger financial market than New Zealand - but there are next to no 'quant' jobs in New Zealand (i.e jobs that would require an MFE or similar) - I don't know if the situation across the ditch is similar or not. Imo I wouldn't bother with a job in Australia - I recently...

Lol it's good to see people using R internationally (It was developed at the University of Auckland - my alma mater).

Way to nitpick - congratulations, you win the internets. Sure, discard one of the top FE programs (not to mention one of the oldest) because you get an M.Eng instead of an MFE.

Yeah it's a mass mail thing you probably signed up to when you sat your GREs. I've received numerous emails from Berkeley, IIT, Rochester, Claremont, Pratt etc... Straight to the bin. Committed to Cornell MFE - bring on August!

Does anyone know how exclusive the fellowship awards given out by Cornell are? I've been offered a $7.5k fellowship by the ORIE faculty, and a $20k fellowship by the Engineering school (they are additive). I'm asking as it seems some of the other schools (CMU) seem to give out truckloads...

Yeah agreed - it'd depend on how strong the rest of your profile is. Personally I got 770 quant, but still got accepted to Cornell (with $27.5k scholarship - starting this fall), CMU, MIT, Columbia, LSE and Imperial. Got rejected from Princeton and Stanford though - likely because of my quant...

A quick question to the current MIT MFin students... From the students that have job offers, how many are international students? I've been accepted to the MIT MFin for 2010 but I am worried that I will graduate and not get a job (in the US) due to the fact that I'm an international student...