doubtful

I got in 4 schools with just the GRE which was not even perfect...

so apparently I am going to a very good school if I look at the publications.. not bad.. even if the placements are so and so..

the good thing is that it's mandatory to spend at least one year abroad.. and usually students are able to visit top10 business schools..

you don't need a book.. just to use "the online help" .. and start with the tutorials.... if you know C and Java it will take you just a few hours.. (with the new version you can even code in Java-Matlab interchangeably) so start matlab and press F1... good luck matlab rocks!

I am curious now to know what they told you.. We are sorry.. we did not think you could get the NSF.. ehehe congratulations... anyway. now you can turn down the offer and go to harvard.. ehehehe

don't you need to let the markov chain go for a large number of iterations..? can I see the model?

I was nominated for a fellowship that will be decided later in the summer... and of course was conditional on accepting the offer... which is independent from the fellowship.. I don't know how to explain it but I was called at the beginning of Feb saying I was nominated for the fellowship so admitted to the program.. then in mid-march they gave me a financial offer that will work if I don't get that fellowship.. I am telling you this, because I suspect that when all those fellowships will be assigned many departmental funding spots will be cleared and most likely assigned to someone else. Anyway I am in the business school so I guess there might be different, but the fellowship I will be competing for is a university-wide.

I have accepted McCombs yesterday... even if It has been a tough decision.

frankly "raw diamond" is not really a bad thing... it should have been something else... if you apply to a phd program people don't expect you to be a famous researcher already.. my guess is that the admission committees like raw diamonds that could be carved by excellent phd programs...

STAT 610 - Theory of Statistics I STAT 611 - Theory of Statistics II STAT 632 - Statistical Decision Theory ECMT 675 - Econometrics I 606. Theory of Probability I. or 619. Applied Probability. Measure Theory; Lebesgue integration; random variables; expectation; condition expectation martingales and random walks; designed for beginning graduate students in mathematics, statistics, the sciences and engineering and students in economics and finance with strong mathematical background. Prerequisites: MATH 409 and 411. ECON 659 - Game Theory

where is Monika going? I left her at the Fed in Minneapolis to work with her husband after getting tenured from Chicago.

you see, Ancagalon? people agree with me.. micro I and econometrics are almost a must. I say that math. stats.. based on Casella-Berger and a class in Probability Theory (you just need to show you can handle real analysis kind of math at the graduate level.. and instead of taking real analysis, you can take probability that is more fun...)

the first year in econ-finance is pretty much the same.. attrition I guess is lower for the contrary of the law of large numbers... admissions in finance are a few.. so they cannot fail the 50% of the class after one year.

excellent desimba... you are a smart guy...

can I ask you why? I mean you could go to wharton or ucla...

not really works but summer internships and opt at the end of the master.

Ok I guess I am out. Anyway this proves the total randomness of the process. First of all many compliments. it's a good program with some strengths and good reputation. is WUSTL your first choice? What kind of finance are you interested in?

when did u get the admission? I am still waiting...

Mathematical Statistics or Estimation Theory might be useful as well.

I am so glad I got admitted at the business school... no budget cuts there... anyway..If I will join mccombs, it will be glad to meet some of you at the MICROI class...

I have been studying time series for 5 years and I never got the impression I needed complex analysis... functional analysis I agree... or maybe I am just a bad student.. eheheh

you do Fourier transforms and Bessel functions even in PDE....

Pde....

I think you are wrong when referring to the BC econ department (anyway were you at BC for the interview? did we meet?) BC econ department is ranked top50 but is in fact a top30 in terms of placements.. and then don't forget that you can take classes at BU economics.. so you have 2 departments covering all the broad spectrum of economics... plus.. NBER and maybe even Harvard and MIT.. during the interview I was told that it's rare but not impossible for a student in finance at BC to take classes at MIT or Harvard.

what is your interest for mathematical finance? continous time finance, computational finance, stochastic optimization?