tell me my odds

[bohemian]

hi all,
looks like a great forum for everything related to further education in QF & career advice, so i'm going to use this opportunity and ask the obvious.

i'm from India, i've a b.tech(engineering bachelor's) & an mba, further to that i've 4 years of experience in pricing derivatives & quantifying risk at financial institutions.
My b.tech. gpa is bad but i faired 80-85% type grades in math courses(calculus, LinAlg, ODEs).
My mba gpa is also bad but again i managed to recieve 80-85% type grade in relevant QuantFin courses.
And i could say that i have read books like Hull, Baxter, DH(Taleb) closely and understand them reasonably well.
On programming front, i know excel-VBA and just started learning c++.

what are my chances of getting admission into MFE at top 8 schools and at top 15 schools.

thanks for all the good posts, i clarified a lot of my doubts reading posts here. good job fellow posters.

[IlyaKEightSix]

I honestly will tell you that I hope they're very low.
Two bad GPAs? If you had a second chance to do it right and came up short AGAIN, what does that tell me about you?

Also, it is further disturbing that you claim you did well in your quantitative courses, but your GPA was terrible anyway. What does that tell me?

That you have trouble with anything but the quantitative--that is, you have trouble *communicating*.

I don't care how smart you are quantitatively. If you can't communicate well, then forget it.

As for 80-85% being your best...well...I think that most people working as quants are a lot better than that. 80-85% in calculus and LinAlg means you're in for a VERY rough ride with the upper level math.

[alain]

check:

My profile ; what are my chances ? - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2297)
Please evaluate my chances... - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2099)
Baruch MFE 2008 - what are my chances.... - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1849)
Please evaluate my chances for FE 2007 - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=705)
Please evaluate my chances for 2007 - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=701)
Evaluate my chances!!! - Quantnet.org - Financial Engineering Forum (http://www.quantnet.org/forum/showthread.php?t=696)

[doug reich]

Can we make this sticky?

[alain]

we should but the sticky should start by saying "WE DON'T KNOW THE ODDS OR CHANCES, NOR WE EVALUATE PROFILES".

[EricFleming]

Baruch's standards have been going up, as have other places.

[IlyaKEightSix]

we should but the sticky should start by saying "WE DON'T KNOW THE ODDS OR CHANCES, NOR WE EVALUATE PROFILES".

We should also put a disclaimer that if you can't pass for a common English-speaking citizen, that you probably don't have high enough chances to justify going in the hole for higher education to be a quant.

[kneeoh]

Greetings.

I am new to the posting and wanted to give say hi to the current members. I am working on the "sell side" to HF clients while I work toward a MSFE.

Looking forward to the hearing from you all.

btw, any opinions on Wilmott's CQF?

Cheers.