较特殊背景？北美选校，求大婶们指点迷津

xidianngh

好久不混论坛，今天实习的时候又来了，事情源于，家里人提出到底要不要留在加拿大这边工作移民，感觉可以视野更开阔一点，看看有没有更好的path。

添加一个回复可见，求筒子们顶贴~
本科武汉大学 985 211 金融工程 绩点3.1？
国内实习有银行，券商，毕业后在一个小金融公司工作9个月，做risk analyst.G 730 雅思7.5？（雅思好像过期了需要重新考）


研究生在加拿大Wilfrid Laurier University 读Master of Finance, 在校有两个Co-op, 一个在一个政府funding的供应链公司做business analyst, 一个在Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan加拿大第二大pension fund,职位是 private market modeling.都是四个月的工作.


CFA 过了1级, 明年考2级，大学期间发表过publication,time series方面的,其中一篇是国际的论文，EI搜索.


个人觉得金融方面或者更偏数理金融的专业比较适合我，有其他选择也可以推荐。




除了加拿大自己的U of T的MMF 或者 MFE, 更想看看筒子们在美国或者其他地方在读或者了解的，有木有比较好的选择哇（当然是条件差不多能够得着的）。


还望达人们指点一二，或者就随意探讨也ok~

cheesechan

the problem i see for UofT MMF / MFE (or indeed any other mathematical finance program):
1. GPA, GPA is very key factor for this kind of solid academic program......and also the related matheamtics (economics) course had taken before.
2. CFA 1 passed is indeed....well not useul for MSc application.
3. Grade for Wilfrid Laurier University's master of finance? won't save your day totally but if it is top it will help a bit.

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xidianngh

cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-6 00:19
the problem i see for UofT MMF / MFE (or indeed any other mathematical finance program):
1. GPA, GPA ...

Yes I agreed with you that GPA is essential. One thing is that when I apply for another Master degree, the GPA for Mfin at Laurier would at least be b+ or A-. Maybe it helped? And as to me, grades is only a part of the whole admission decision making process, important but, not the only factor.

Laurier is not a top university, also agreed. It is a business school well-known in Ontario, mostly, locals go there. It has strong career centres and Co-operative programs where I gain 8 months work experience here in Toronto. That's the main reason I chose Laurier instead another program I got admitted at U of T. Do you think the local work experience makes any difference?

CFA is kinda value-added, but limited, I understand that, and I didn't count on it haha.

cheesechan

xidianngh 发表于 2015-10-6 01:56
Yes I agreed with you that GPA is essential. One thing is that when I apply for another Master degr ...

For admission, there are few key factors, GPA is one of them only for sure. What I want to say is, different program have different weighting on a certain factor, just say GPA, it is very important, say for a math master, but not really important for a marketing master.

A solid academics / mathematical master like MMF / MFE counts very heavily on GPA, kindly of unless you have a few year of relevant experience (e.g. a equity analyst role doesn't counts as so for MMF). I guess you finance master GPA will help a bit but not much, since the university is not top tier enough, and more importantly
a finance master is not solid enough to show mathematical/ economics ability.

Working experience helps a bit for sure (e.g. risk is a bit relevant indeed, but depends on the duty of the job for sure), but not really that much if you don't have a suitable background. The department have to make sure their student can handle their coursework in the very first place, where preious working experience have no use in proving so (this is indeed can only proved throgh previous coursework, but not GMAT/GRE too).

and to make it precise, for master application, CFA is not even kind of value-add, especially when you have a finance background already. It is correct that you didn't count on it, as it is a ZERO.

For a program like math & econ, another factor is the related coursework you had taken before. e.g.
MMF: "Exceptional math skills are the most important qualification."
MFE: "Applicants must have a strong preparation in economics"
and both of them states explicitly which courses are required. Better check yourself first before application.
This is not only for Toronto, but bascially for all solid MFE program. Toronto is just the one who states this out explictly, at thus I tend to believe it is quite strict on this.

Not quite sure how engineernig your bachelor is, but 3.1 is in general not competitive for Toronto, but
of course it still worth a trial, but I guess the chances is not high, and you need a plan B. (maybe also Western MFE, Stat (Fina modeling), I don't think you stand any chances for Waterloo MQF as it is even more academic than UofT MMF, but how about McMaster Financial Mathematics? I don't really know, but there are not much choice in Canada, and the simplest solution is just to apply all of those are useful (useful in sense of can lead you to your goal), and then sit and wait....

P.S. Actually I don't see anything special for your case. Tons of students wanna go to good school good program but don't have a good enough GPA, which is just as common as the sun rising from the east........Life is like that, indeed me too.....

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