寻求建议~Texas vs. Minnesota

tzuchang

As far as I know, Finance students are required to take micro and econometrics only, even at UMN. But for UMN Finance students, it is a great loss if they skip macro courses there.

financePHD

If you want to do asset pricing, you will need to take the macro sequance as well at UMN. I was told that only those relatively higher ranked schools hire asset pricing (especially theoretical) graduates. This year even some traditional corporate schools put priority on hiring asset pricing guys. So the macro-finance would be quite attractive. Check this job market star from harvard econ: Ian Martin. I saw from econ wiki that he got offers almost from all top finance departments.

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darcie

以下是引用zyzbsz在2008-3-29 7:21:00的发言：

刚收到Texas-Austin的finance的offer. 很早之前Minnesota就给了offer了。然后今天教授也来催希望我尽快恢复。我今天也答应两所学校April 1st给他们答复。主要是我也不想再拖了，觉得“有完没完”的感觉。想赶紧做决定好办签证了。我刚才也withdraw my waitlist from Wharton and Stern了。觉得希望有如遭雷劈，干脆先据了他们得了。

想问一下，wharton and stern有没有给那些offer recievers一个答复的deadline，比如在415之前，thanks

nancy1987

以下是引用oel01在2008-3-31 4:56:00的发言：

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难怪我看UTA没有在系版上列placement，原来有玄机……其实不应该啊，很多排名比Austin低的系都大方列出来的，能有多不如人意啊？

踢人很猛是个什么概念？比如商院一般每个program招3-5个人，“很猛”是不是前两年qualify就踢一半的人，然后以此来提高placement？这么高的淘汰率会弄得学生之间关系很紧张吧，有点像“末位淘汰制”……听说Wisc的econ系就是这样，狂招学生，然后qualify踢人……不厚道。

UT是出了名的淘汰率高的学校

finance不太了解，acct是很猛的……至于placement么，去年毕业的一个phd来HKUST了……上个sem给我上课，闲聊时提起找工作说……find a job is another sad story...寒

tzuchang

So Austin does fail Acc students? I bet it is unusual since I have not heard any Acc student is kicked out.  BTW, for placement, it is already very good to find a job at HKUST. The offer from HKUST is extermely high.

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msyefu

As far as I know, UT finance phd's replacements this year resulted in only teaching school, not research school. I just don't know why they reform and still find hard to replace their students ? they gave out 8 offers last year! And I don't think they really need that much! UMN's replacement is improving recently. I guess the persons there are really pushing their students out to the markets.

tzuchang

just got offer from UMN this afternoon. I think I will go for this one. (I only have this one, haha)