* **Why phd, why finance/acct**
* **What is your understanding of AP/CF research, why AP/CF**
* **RA experience, big picture, details, obstacles, intuition**
* **How did you get the RA experience**
* **Future research fields, examples, details**
* **Your favorite paper in finance/acct**
* **Specific ones: Explain DID if you are a professor; How to analyze for casualty in a certain setting; Read an abstract and share your thoughts**
* **Chicago Finance Predoc: Booth***15+FMC*10+BFI*?+Econ*?+Accounting*?*
* *Harvard: HBS*5\~10+Econ*?+Accounting*?
* **MIT: Sloan?+Econ***?+Blueprint*?+???\*
* *Stanford: GSB*10+Econ*?+Accounting*?
* **Upenn: Wharton5\~10+Econ***?+Accounting*?+Applied Econ\*?
* **Northwestern: Kellogg5+Econ ***?+Accounting*?
* **Yale: Tobin\*5\~10+ Econ ***?+Accounting*?
* **NYU, WUSTL, NUS, HKUST, HKU, CUHK, CKGSB, etc…**
* **This year, I believe at least 40 top school excellent predocs are on the finance phd app mkt; there are also students from other predoc programs, master programs, etc. Also, people with excellent working exp in IMF/Fed/Investment Bank will be preferred by certain programs like LBS**
* **如果你想去一个Top项目,比如Top5,Top10,还是最好做一个predoc。我个人的情况是因为我能接受任何Top30(有\~50个)的项目。如果不是如此的话,我也会去申请predoc的。**
* **Top5之外没有完美的项目,Top5也不一定完美**
* **大系有大系的优势**
* **Love letter matters?有时候是的,但对于Top10左右的项目应该就不是了**
* **Advisor’s email/call matters?我个人的经历似乎不支持,我的老板也有提到目前这个占比在降。当然,这依然是很重要的,只不过对于我的情况——一个有短板的本科申请者,绝大多数方面不如predoc们——可能老板就算发了邮件也不会造成太大的区别**
* **博士槽位数量减少,但是面试数量增加。面试转化率早已远远低于1/3或者1/4。拿到面试不代表多好的信号了...必须好好准备,或者让老板在面试之前就推**
* **从今年申请情况看,商学院相比于econ,可能更不偏好本科直申的同学。目前有不少极为优秀的本科同学拿到了very top school的Econ offer,但是没有本科同学能拿到very top finance/acct offer。个人的理解是,商学院对于各类经验尤其是工作和全职RA会更加重视。**