Request for profile evaluation: MFE in US

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Request for profile evaluation: MFE in US

by sach290386 » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:17 am
Hi,

I am interested in pursuing Master in Financial Engineering from US. I am targeting below mentioned colleges:
Columbia Univ (MMF), Univ of California Berkley(MFE), UCLA(MFE), Princeton Univ(MFin), Univ of Chicago(MFM)
Detail profile mentioned below:
Qualification:
B.E (Information Tech)from Nagpur Univ : 63% - First Division
MBA finance from ICFAI Business School: CGPA 7.55
FRM certification received
CFA L1 passed

Work Experience:
5 years in investment banking and Market risk management role, currently working in Credit Suisse as Team Lead

GRE: Quants: 167; Vocab: 157; AWA: 3
TOEFL: 106

Good knowledge of C++, VBA, SQL
Please evaluate my profile and let me know which all colleges should I apply.

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by Michael@VeritasPrep » Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:00 pm
I think your profile would be strong for all of those schools. To help narrow your choices, where do you want to be based after school? Is your goal to go into sales and trading on Wall St? Then definitely target Columbia or even NYU. You probably will need to think through and have an explanation ready for why a MFE after you already have a MBA.