美国本科留学生学生想申金融博士，请大家帮忙定位和给点建议

pathseeker

UC Berkeley MFE has a full-tuition student loan program. Here's the link: http://mfe.berkeley.edu/faid.html

Also, Princeton MFin awards The President's Award, a half-tuition waiver to two students each year

Wall Street front office jobs include: investment banking, sales & trading, and structuring. You may find middle and back office professionals working in the forementioned areas, however, the key distinction is, front office professionals deal directly with clients, while middle and back office professionals support front office in non-client-facing issues, i.e. quantitative research and modeling, risk management, operations, etc.

bismack

非常感谢！

bismack

今天总算把系主任约到了。他的看法是: 1.paper比推荐信更重要，除非写推荐信的教授和接受申请的教授之间很熟悉。2。GMAT和GPA都很高的话没有master学位也可以（现在高分一大把一大把，估计有master的话对申请博士还是好不少）。3。如果要先读master, MFE〉MSF>MBA.  4。到排名低的学校读博士不值。


大家还有什么建议吗？

talkdirty

MFE读出来就去工作吧, 别PHD了

pathseeker

If PhD is your ultimate goal, you can do either of the following and try to make it happen:

1. Shoot for Stanford's MS in Financial Mathematics and Princeton's Master in Finance program. Take loads of PhD-level courses and do well in them. Network the professors for letters of recommendation. Try hard to get a Research Assistant job and help publish papers.

2. Get a Wall Street front office job and perform. Shoot for MBA at Chicago/MIT and take loads of PhD-level courses. Network the professors for letters of recommendation. Try hard to get a Research Assistant job and help publish papers.

bismack

再次感谢pathseeker。
不过正如talkdirty说的，如果我能完成到你说的2个方案中的任何一个，我都不会读博士了，除非我拿不到H1。
所以我只好厚着脸皮再问按我现在的情况申请专业排名在30-50的学校有多大概率。关于论文我现在的确没底，力争今年或者明年在教授的指导下写一篇文章发表。

pathseeker

Although you do stand a decent chance of getting into 30-50 ranked programs, I would not recommend you to do that. From my observations, two things are most likely to happen upon getting your PhD degree from a second-tier program, one is that you get to be a assistant professor at a third-tier school/program, the other is that you do an MFE/MFin program at a top school in order to get into Wall Street since most of the time Wall Street ONLY recruit PhDs from top programs at top schools.

Based on your academic record you should have no problem getting to Stanford MSFM or NYU MSMF, which in my opinon, is much better than the PhD option. Hope this helps.

bismack

Thanks again!