T30 CS/Math Student Profile Evaluation Request

[didey]

Hey everyone, was hoping to get a profile review to help me figure out what schools to target for a financial engineering/computational finance/etc masters, here's my stats.

Year: Junior

Majors: Computer Science, Mathematics

School: Top 30 in CS

GPA: 3.6/4

Relevant Classes: Data structures(B+), calc 2(A), func programming(A), discrete math(A), calc 3(A), probability for cs(A-), systems(coding in c, A), linear algebra(A-), numerical analysis(C-), algorithms(C-) (I shouldn't have taken these classes together in a one month compressed semester...) Current Classes: NLP, data science, machine learning intro, ordinary diff eq, SWE

Relevant experience:

• Worked as a full time software engineer for two years after having to take some time off. It was at a startup and I got exposed to a lot of cool technology and gained some experience in NLP using LLMs etc. I have some fun AI-leveraging projects still in production there that I could show off in an interview or something, but nothing too fancy.
• Interned at a medium sized tech company before that, working on internal tooling and CI/CD infra.

My end goal is to be something like a quant analyst I think? All I want to do is create models and implement them, not execution(I know this is weird for a CS student but I like stats/math modeling a lot at the moment). As far as schools I'm interested in, I'm thinking somewhere decently close to NYC.

Thanks!

 

[weab]

There really aren't that many programs. Just apply to the ones that you would go to.

 

[didey]

There really aren't that many programs. Just apply to the ones that you would go to.

Agreed. However, I would like to hear some guesses about what chances I have at various schools.