[录取汇报] offer: Cornell finance (phd)

First of all, thanks all cders for sharing information.

They admit 2% out of 500+ applicants and ask me to respond before Mar 5 because of a long waiting list.

Let me introduce my background:

95~01: shishi middle school in Chengdu

01~04: peking university with math major overall gpa 3.5, major gpa 3.83

         Rejected by all schools in my first around application in us (apply for stat)

04~05: unemployment ( This tells "gang tie shi zen yang lian cheng de", hehe)

        Get only 1 offer from IUB only otherwise I cannot come to usa (apply for math)

05~07: IUB math, expected to get a m.a. on this may

two  recommendations from math professors and one from economics professor. No recommendations from finance.

Two working papers about market microstructure

That is it. Also, it can be used for reference how one switchs his major to finance phd.

I would like to answer any questions, my email would be liheng.xu(在) gmail.com

interview contents on saturday

1. why do you like Market Microstructure?

2. How do you feel when you work with prof.A(we coauthered a working paper)

3. Why do you choose Kyle(1985) model rather than Glosten and Milgrom(1985) model in your paper?

4. Why do you choose to work with Prof.A?

5.Have you gotten some other offers or news so far?

6. We are really excited about what you did (2 working papers) in the Market Microstructure and will recommend you to the committee. The result will follow in the next week and there would be another interview.

恭喜恭喜！！

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楼主带来开门红啦!

What did they ask you in the interview? Do you have any suggestion on interview for us?

Thanks!