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[申请定位] 金融PhD 刚开始想这个问题 期待大家的建议

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发表于 2017-6-7 11:40:20 来自手机 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
请教各位大神~~~

本科国内985 211 金融专业
毕业之后就开始读研了
研究生美国100以内的大学
今年十二月份毕业
名气一般 但在当地还是搞得还不错
金融的话也是我们学校比较重视的专业
是Stem
学了很多计量 Stata是在研究生学的
之前本科学过Eviews和Spss
当然也学过高数 简直惨不忍睹
但长大了意识到了数学的重要性
开始狂补
不过还是学的很浅。。。非数学geek 哈哈哈
但还是很喜欢计量

我的话 GPA是弱势
研究生目前只有3.32
但是还有半年可以努力!?
托福过期了要重新考
Gmat 750
当年也是感谢ChaseDream帮我圆梦
所以我又回来了~

我个人觉得首先
很想读博士
就是说白了还想继续多学点
之后工作再回来
可能就难了
虽然只要有决心就都能做成
但是反过来看 不想浪费现在的机会
想趁热打铁

很喜欢做Reasearch
读博的原因还有很多就不一一列举了
目标是名校 就不用多说了
尽管很难还是想试一试
主要希望是有Cover学费的项目
不想给家里添麻烦

希望大家可以给些建议和想法
以及努力的方向吧
谢谢!!!
发表于 2017-6-7 21:28:49 | 显示全部楼层
Looking good. Just trying to get some exposure of finance literature...start thinking about recommendations and intended working fields in PhD...
发表于 2017-6-8 00:08:07 | 显示全部楼层
Where is you RA experience?
How strong/weak is your math/econ background?
What is your interested subfield?
How is your coding skill?
 楼主| 发表于 2017-6-8 05:50:52 | 显示全部楼层
cheesechan 发表于 2017-6-8 00:08
Where is you RA experience?
How strong/weak is your math/econ background?
What is your interested su ...

I have no RA experience in Graduate period but I do have back in my undergraduate school.
I think I'm not that talented in Math but I finished calculus, metrics as well as statistic. I'm better in statistic than other subjects or say that I'm interested in econometric. I've been a finance student since college so all the subject in this field was covered. But still, I don't think I have a particular sub-field that I'm mastered at and that's the reason for wishing to acquire a PhD in the future.
I learned Eviews, Stata, if that's what you were asking.
Thanks for the attention and looking forward to your suggestion.

 楼主| 发表于 2017-6-8 05:55:03 | 显示全部楼层
cheesechan 发表于 2017-6-8 00:08
Where is you RA experience?
How strong/weak is your math/econ background?
What is your interested su ...

And I just start to think about this recently. So please send me some information if you have any good source for me to get familiar with these programs. Thanks
发表于 2017-6-8 06:06:00 | 显示全部楼层
If you like econometrics, why do you choose finance?
 楼主| 发表于 2017-6-8 11:12:51 | 显示全部楼层
Miss.Unintended 发表于 2017-6-8 05:55
And I just start to think about this recently. So please send me some information if you have any  ...

because we don't have any major called econometric. Also, it's useful in Finance field.
发表于 2017-6-8 16:37:08 | 显示全部楼层
Miss.Unintended 发表于 2017-6-8 05:50
I have no RA experience in Graduate period but I do have back in my undergraduate school.
I think I'm not that talented in Math but I finished calculus, metrics as well as statistic. I'm better in statistic than other subjects or say that I'm interested in econometric. I've been a finance student since college so all the subject in this field was covered. But still, I don't think I have a particular sub-field that I'm mastered at and that's the reason for wishing to acquire a PhD in the future.
I learned Eviews, Stata, if that's what you were asking.

(agree with 目标是名校. 學術界競爭已經那麼激烈, 起點再低一點的之後就坎坷了)
Assumed field of interest: somewhere closed to Financial econometrics.

1a. Multivariate Calculus, linear algebra, calculus-based probability and stat, econometric 之類是人人都有的basic assumption, 就不用浪費時間提了.
We should spend the time talking about which advanced bachelor level / master level math/stat course one has taken.
Are there something that is missing? If it is just a bit, self-study. If it is really a lot, get a useful degree.
1b. and seems you forget to mention how your trainig in economics is.....that means sounds like only introductory UG level then......

2. "I don't think I have a particular sub-field that I'm mastered at and that's the reason for wishing to acquire a PhD in the future."
is a quite horrible reason for a personal statement, especially if the school ask you for a research proposal in the application.
You need something reasonable there.

3. Lack of RA experience in graduate school (i.e. US) put you in disadvantage while application.
Where can you get a good reference letter? the most common source are your thesis / dissertation supervisor, and someone you have worked with closely while study.

4. When people talk about coding, or programming, it is about scientific language. EViews, Stata don't count.
Even you didn't have any experience with OOP language like C++, it is a must to have some experience in MATLAB/R/similar scientific language for conducting empirical research (especially when you are interested in research related to econometrics)

5. Econometrics is under the Department of Economics for most of the case.

6. 正常來說, 除非某人是top of the class, bachelor / master 要上PhD的, 往往是要從第N流, 轉到第N+1 / N+2流的.
你現在去申請的話, 可能要有drop out of top 100的心理準備.

7. Econometrics is a methodlogy, which is very useful in finance.
When you are saying that you are interested in that, it can be either you are interested in using it to look into some question in finance, or interested in researching the methodlogy itself.
Any idea which side are you are more closed to?

你的目標, 和你的現況的gap很大 - 大概有一個solid bachelor in some quantitative discipline (而且不能是只是US top 100水平的大學) 之大.
除非你真的很有心搞研究(怎看也不像), 還是建議回國後努力找工作吧.

发表于 2017-6-9 00:32:51 | 显示全部楼层
Also, do you have a family? Would you like to relocate to a remote college town for 5 to 6 years?
发表于 2017-6-9 04:56:23 | 显示全部楼层
Doing research is very isolated. Do you think you will enjoy the process?
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