200proof

Does anyone have any preference for either author? Anyone compared the books?

Not sure if you guys saw this, but $40k for a journal subscription? Do any of you think open journals will catch on? I mean the concept is ideal from an academics perspective, open information from all research. Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing § THE HARVARD LIBRARY TRANSITION

midwestfinance.org and easternfinance.org They are just regional conferences, but I got on this year as an undergrad. If you can walk in and talk about being on a conference during an interview, you are golden.

Definitely take either an econometrics (practical using STATA/SAS) class or regression analysis (Theoretical in the math dept, probably use R) if you are going to do empirical work. It has been the best investment I have made, I was able to start research in my undergrad thanks to those classes.

Hmm, well first of all I wouldn't toot that industry horn too loudly in your interviews. Other than that, research will set you apart, and if you could get on the spring round of regional conferences that would be great (EFA,MFA). You seem to have a profile similar to mine, but different career objectives. Look at some of my old post and you can find my profile and what schools I got into and where I didn't get in to. Why are you taking the GRE? I know you can, but why not take the GMAT? The verbal section is much more analytical.

Haha, it was snail mail.

When I first came to these forums about 3 years ago, I found a post like this that helped me gauge where I would be competitive applying. I've heard back from all my schools, so I think I'll try and get this going for future generations. Field: Finance Undergrad: BS Finance, Clemson (Top 25 Public), Math and Econ Minor GMAT: 700 (66% Q, 92% V) UG GPA: 3.6 Grad: N/A G GPA: N/A Relevant Course Work: Advanced Corporate, Advanced Investments, Derivatives, Financial Modeling, Calc 1-4, Linear Algebra, Econometrics, Linear Modeling Work Experience: 3 summer internships (Small hedge fund, BoA Charlotte, Fortune 500 Company) Research Experience: 1 paper accepted at 2 regional finance conferences Applied To: Rice, UNC, UF, UGA, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, FSU, Kentucky, VT Accepted: Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, FSU, Kentucky Wait List Reject: None Rejected: Rice, UNC, UF, UGA Attending: Alabama What I would do different: My quant GMAT was way too low. Other than that, I'm happy with the number of acceptances especially straight out of undergrad.

UGA sent out rejections this week.

Just got dinged by Florida finance. 180 applicants.

Anybody heard from UGA?

I got a D in Differential Equations, and I haven't had any problems getting offers from where I want to go. But, FinAcctPhD is right, I just wasn't trying as hard as I should. Although, I was in 4 other 400 level math classes... I'm going to a Finance PhD program..

Haha, oh that's fantastic news!

Well, I'm still waiting on Florida and Georgia finance. I have an app out at North Carolina, but I'm not holding my breath. As it stands I've got offers from Alabama, Tennessee, and I just flew out to LSU. FSU and Kentucky were also interested, but given the Alabama and Tennessee offers I withdrew from the applicant pool. Looking at the past timing on the Grad Cafe, I'm expecting to hear from UF and UGA this week or next week. Just needed to vent.

I'm totally tolling you man. It is true that I went down to Alabama and I was given an interview on the spot, but I was down visiting a friend in their masters program, so I didn't have a suit to wear. But, I just got back from LSU and I wore a suit. I would say that no one who is serious about a school, given sufficient notice, wouldn't dress up.

I feel that if you need to hide behind a suit and tie in lieu of have excellent conversation about the field you are going into, and about your research interest, and about current literature and publications of the professors you are talking with, then that's a bad position to be in. Ceteris Paribus, you probably get it because of the suit. But, I feel that they have probably already made up their mind about you before the interview, so the suit/no suit dummy variable is probably statistically insignificant. Just a hypothesis though.