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  1. Thank you very much for sharing your wisdom in PhD applications. Although, I have heard the importance of good recommendation letters from well-known professors, I was a bit hesitant to ask to the professor about the letter because I thought the work I have done was too mundane. However, as you pointed out that other non PhDs works are not that different to mine, I am much more confidence in asking the letter. Thank you very much for your inputs! Still, I am not over confident about my applications and stay conservative within the range of T30-T50. However, I will try to apply T20-T30 schools with the quant professor's recommendation letter. I really appreciate your time checking my profile and giving me great advice! Your advice was really helpful!
  2. Thank you very much for your help! I received my master's degree from Cornell, Chicago, CMU, Columbia type of school where they also run quantitative finance programs. A few professors publish in finance journals, but I plan to receive a letter from statistics professor where I did very well in his class. Some students go to PhD programs in OR and Business but most students out of the program directly go to industry. The biggest reason that I am not targeting OR department in B-School is because the nature of research in OR is very theory-based. However, I found interests in empirical research while in the company and would like to explore more about the topic and think Business school finance major is better fit for me. I appreciate any inputs, thank you!
  3. [h=2]Accounting / Finance PhD Profile Evaluation[/h] Profile Evaluation (Accounting / Finance PhD) Hi, I am planning to apply for accounting and finance PhD for coming fall 2020. I would really appreciate it if you share some thoughts of what school range I should target. Education: - Undergraduate: East Asia, well-reputed university, major: Business, double major: Mathematics; GPA: 3.7 - Graduate: US Private, Operations Research: GPA:3.6 - Econ classes (Undergraduate): Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Game Theory - Math (Undergrad + Grad): Calculus, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Probability and Statistics, ODE, PDE, Mathematical Finance, Optimization, Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Topology - Programming: Algorithms, Data Structure, Simulation - Python, R, MATLAB Test score: - GRE: V161/Q170/AW4.0 - TOEFL R28/L30/S23/W24 Research experience: - Graduate research assistant - Writing a Python code for an option pricing model - Research assistant while preparing for PhD application - spreadsheet data cleaning and data support for a structural systemic risk for the credit markets Work experience: - Consulting Internship - Full time quantitative research analyst for an asset management company - implementing investment strategies from replication papers from academia (2 years) Letter: - Professor from undergraduate b-school professor (Research Dean, previous research together, maybe good letter) - Professor from graduate statistics professor (Did very well in the class, but no research together, good to mediocre letter) - Co-worker at the company (Developed investment model together; yet not a PhD, maybe good letter) Others: - FRM(I & II), CFA I - I don't think this will affect anyway in the PhD applications though Questions or concerns you have about your profile? - While in the graduate program, I cross-registered MBA Finance course and I did pretty bad. Will this fact somehow affect my PhD application either in Accounting or Finance? - Compared to students coming from solid business school background, I lack research experience with US b-school professors. Does it significantly lower my chance to get into Top 30 Finance program? - Even though I do not have much academic research experience with b-school professors, my job is highly related with replicating models introduced in academic/practitioner's papers. Can this fact supplement the lack of academic research experience? - I plan to get a letter from my co-worker who does not hold a PhD but can support in the aspects of data handling, programming and details about research at the company. However, I can also think of getting another letter from the professor who is well-reputed in his area (quantitative finance) who I had a short research with but am not very confident about the relationship (as I didn't take his classes). It seems pretty unpredictable what the professor is going to write in the letter if I ask. Maybe "I did a short-term research with him and he supported in writing a code, that's all I know about this candidate" would be the best that he can say and if this is the case, is it worth taking the risk to get the letter from the professor? - I am targeting Top 20 Accounting and Top 30-50 Finance PhD programs and is it reasonable to think of this range? I really appreciate your time reading my post. Please share any thoughts of my profile! Thank you very much ahead!:eager:
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