Congrats on the offer but I partly agree with this.
MSIM is somewhat IT oriented and therefore has its limits to place students into front office banking/PE/HF/sales&trading positions. If you want to do finance I'd take a second thought on taking it over an MSF/MFE.
-- by 会员 MorningSide (2011/3/14 17:43:01)
Did LZ mention he wants to do "front office banking/PE/HF/sales&trading positions"? Did LZ mention he wants to do Finance? Or you just assume everyone on earth wants to do Finance?
Although I also suggest student choose top MFE if he wants to begin career in Finance, I really feel sad about current irrational trend towards Finance and technology. You guys can chat here so conveniently because "geeks" invite web, google and even this forum system, not because traders execute a billion notional CDS trades betting Japan's collapse.
Sometimes I have feeling that CD just becomes Chinese version of Quantnet or GD.