Evaluate my chances!!!

[pranab.dc]

Hi ppl,

It is really a nice endeavour on the part of Baruch Students (current and past) to maintain such a nice Forum

I just wanted a few answers and my chances about getting admission.

My Profile

Education: BS and MS in Mathematics and Computing(Major) and B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Comm (Minor) from IIT Kharagpur, India (among top 3 colleges in India and quite reputed in global front also) (graduated in 2006 itself).

GPA (Major): 3.22/4 (converting 10 point scale to 4 point scale ) (Among top 40% of class )
(Have done all required Maths courses with haviing 4/4 grade points in most of them)
Selected for National Maths Olympiad.

GRE: Taking next month.

Work Exp:Working for past 6 months in a core Networking company in India with major competences :C/C++ , Database , Networking. Working in their Banking Software division.

Financial Exp: Trading actively in Stock Markets (Cash + F&O) for last 2 years. Most probably giving CFA L1 in July,2007.

My queries are

1) Am i too late for this year's admission in Baruch(rathe FE/QCF programs of any top US school) and should I consider next year (the application fee is quite steep for all the colleges)

2) The ways of financing the education (Would like to know about the loans/scholariships etc. that are available)

Thanks

[RussianMike]

My queries are

1) Am i too late for this year's admission in Baruch(rathe FE/QCF programs of any top US school) and should I consider next year (the application fee is quite steep for all the colleges)

2) The ways of financing the education (Would like to know about the loans/scholariships etc. that are available)

Thanks

You are not too late

check out the website

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/math/masters.html

Since I'm not an international student I cannot answer the financing question because I do not know if you can get loans/scholarships as an international. I'll let our international students reply to that effect.

[Andy]

Hi Pranab,

1) The deadline for Fall 2007 is April 30,2007 so you are not late. We will start evaluating applications in Jan 2007 so if you can send everything in by then, you would be in the earlier group. If you send after Jan 2007, it will be evaluated approx bi-monthly.

2) We have no financial aid for international students but since the tuition is low (very low), the quality is high, you can think of that as having financial aid already. To get a comparable education, you have to pay anywhere from 40K-70K from other programs. At Baruch, you pay 18K. Check out the website for exact numbers.

Best of luck.

[pranab.dc]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for taking time out and replying. I really liked the helpful attitude of the Baruch people.

As far as standardised tests go, I will have their scores by next month itself so hope to have my application completed by the first deadline.


Thanks for your careful inputs.

Regards,

Pranab