较特殊背景？北美选校，求大婶们指点迷津

cheesechan

xidianngh 发表于 2015-10-6 22:40
Lol. Thanks for your kind thorough respond here. I don't want to argue with you. You certainly mad ...

If you are applying for only professional master in business school before, that's true that grades are not that important. (so, got several admissions from good programs all over Canada too, (U of T, UBC) doesn't have much meaning unless the one you get is a solid one as MMF. I don't know which one you get so I don't have any comment on this)

In a business program (i.e. which is not that technical), they weight much more on soft skills, previous working experience, and personal statement and etc........ since those are the most important factors that affect the future employability, and thus their employment report. (for the same reason, employer don't look at the grade, but just your skillset.) Normally a general finance job is not really too technical so that GPA is not a very useful indicator for the ability of handling them.

The mindset of admission in the mathematics and economics department are quite different from that. The very first point is for a master degree, they have to make sure the student have the adequate background to study the stuffs in the master. Mathematics, economics is not finance. It is not something that can be done without the "correct" preparation. I guess you fit the one for MMF for sure (well UG financial engineering), but I doubt if you have the intermediate micro & macro for MFE.
Similar logic hold for a technical role (which is the typical way out for a financial engineering student). Not necessarily GPA, but technical skills (mathematics and programming) instead. School tends to believe that the higher the GPA is, the better the technical skills are. Previous internship does help, but not really that much unless it is also a technical one (or from a very famous firm). Of course GPA doesn't mean everything, but the weighting of it is way much higher in such a master than any others. (e.g. just image a even more extreme case, PhD: if one's GPA is not high enough, one is 99% out already..)

I guess you may not agree with some of the point, and I don't have any interest in arguing over this also. Just wish you good luck and let's see...

P.S. 1
Why did I say my case special? Firstly, individuals are all special, how can you generalize and divide people into with or without high GPA? I think my case is kinda special as I am getting a master degree already, and have been working here in a North America environment. As for the people hanging on this website, mostly still stay in mainland China, I can't ensure everyone has done that.

<--- well.....that's true that every individual are all special, and thus it is meaningless to mention that based on this point since it is for everyone.
but you are right that I forgot that point that most people here don't have any North America experience.

P.S.2
Just look at how many WHU alumni there each year and you would get a rough idea.
<--- well for sure I don't have a rough idea since:
1. I don't have this info as this is not public
2. I don't know their background (e.g. previous internship, GPA, and etc...)

P.S.3
I do think that you have a good chances to stay for a role after two internships........and thus what I was thinking is:
1. you will likely to aim for only more mathematical master, else you don't need a master anymore (working experience > study in a non-technical field, if soft business discipline, most likely will go MBA later)
2. even if you want to move to US, a STEM one will help boosting the chances of staying much more.

xidianngh

cheesechan 发表于 2015-10-7 00:45
If you are applying for only professional master in business school before, that's true that grade ...

Thank you again for your response. You have been very kind. Although we might have different observations based on our own experience, it's still a pleasure discussing with you.

Wish you all the best as well

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