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harville

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Hi, I'm planning to apply this winter for finance PhD.

 

Type of Student: Domestic(us citizen) Asian Male

 

Test Scores (GRE): V164(94%) Q169(97%) W4.5(82%)

 

Undergrad/Grad Institution Seoul national university(Korea)

 

Program Bachelor of business admin., BA econ, BS stat(triple degree)

 

Graduate Program MS in accounting(just finished 1st semester)

 

Undegrad GPA: 3.97/4.3 (3.85/4.0)

 

Graduate GPA: 4.15/4.3 (4.0/4.0)

 

Research Experience: none

Teaching Experience: none

Work Experience: statistical research assistant(summer) at central bank + summer intern at a life insurance company(db analysis)

Computing skills: R, SAS, LaTeX

 

Courses:

-Econ

Intro Micro/Macro A+/A+

Intermediate Micro/Macro A+/A0

Econometrics A0

 

-Finance

Financial Mgmt A0

Insurance and Risk Management A+

Investments A+

 

-Math

Calculus for Business A+

Calculus I A-

Linear Algebra I A-

Intro to Linear Algebra A0

Intro to Mathematical Analysis A0 (textbook: Rudin, PMA)

Numerical Linear Algebra A0

Real Analysis(undergrad) A0 (textbook: Folland)

 

-Stat

Intro Stat A0

Stat Lab A+

Intro Prob(calc based) B0

Regression Analysis A0

Design of experiments B+

Mathematical Statistics I/II B+/A+

Data Mining A-

Survival Analysis A0

Time Series Analysis A+

Sampling Design A0

Statistical computing B+

 

 

Concentration Applying to: To be decided... maybe asset pricing theory?

 

I am aiming for top 20 or top 30, or maybe top 10? I'm worried that I have virtually no research experience and that I took a dearth of finance courses..

I would appreciate an evaluation of my profile for this fall 2018 application season, and any tips/adviceoffered. Thank you in advance!

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