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Profile evaluation - MFin/MFE [#permalink] New post   02 Aug 2015, 21:51
Hey, please evaluate my profile for MFin/MFE/MSF courses

My profile:
Indian, Male, 23
B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, GPA : 7.57/10 (class highest:8.7/10)
Class 10: 85.4% (maths:95/100)
Class 12: 89% maths:95/100)
GRE: 322/340 (170Q + 152V)
1 year trading experience in commodity markets at the Chicago Exchange
Intern at EY (Ernst & Young) and Research assistant under a prof at IIM Bangalore
Extra curricular (if it would count) : joint sec of the music group of college
I will be taking the CFA L1 in June 2016 - it wont really help this year

I am looking to apply to Columbia, Chicago, NYU, MIT, CMU, Duke, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan,
HEC Paris, NTU Singapore, LSE, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, LBS

Thanks!!
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Re: Profile evaluation - MFin/MFE [#permalink] New post   04 Aug 2015, 05:00
Hi ****,

MIT, Stanford, Cornell, LBS and LSE will be stretch. To maximize your chances of admission, apply as early as possible.
Also, in the meantime, start working on your profile. Take the two Financial Engineering courses of Columbia on Coursera in Verified Certificate mode. They won't count towards your grades or anything. But you can use the certificates to emphasize on your interest. In fact, browse EDX and Coursera for similar courses.
You should also try to do short-term certification courses offered by NSE.
These will strengthen your profile.

All the best!
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Re: Profile evaluation - MFin/MFE [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2015, 01:16
AryamaDuttaSaikia wrote:
Hi ****,

MIT, Stanford, Cornell, LBS and LSE will be stretch. To maximize your chances of admission, apply as early as possible.
Also, in the meantime, start working on your profile. Take the two Financial Engineering courses of Columbia on Coursera in Verified Certificate mode. They won't count towards your grades or anything. But you can use the certificates to emphasize on your interest. In fact, browse EDX and Coursera for similar courses.
You should also try to do short-term certification courses offered by NSE.
These will strengthen your profile.

All the best!


Do you say so because of my relatively low GPA or something else? I am banking on my 1 year experience in trading which is directly related to the MFin courses.
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Re: Profile evaluation - MFin/MFE [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2015, 10:25
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Yes. Also, the GRE score of 322 is not a stand out one for the type of colleges you seem to be targeting.
When you target the top schools, you should do everything possible to strengthen your profile.
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