Cambridge MPhil in Finance applicants 2010

Pretty sure pronstarz is in a diff course at JBS, TP not Finance.

Reply 61

hadwhoken

another week passed. Cambridge cambridge...

Reply 62

sanpantan

4 offer holders on this thread alone: verticalforce, matthias, gb_gb, pronstarz

Umm, I'm not an MPhil Fin Applicant :o:

, but my friend is. He's still waiting tho... 3.8GPA, 740GMAT. Pretty strong profile I'd say. :yes:

Reply 63

He an NZer too? What was his undergrad?

Reply 64

makaveli121

He an NZer too? What was his undergrad?

nah bru...

hes from aussie. i think his undergrad was something like econometrics and stats. not really sure aye..

he also got MIT computational math or something... LSE but still waiting oxford MFE and LBS MSc Finance and GOOD OLE CAMBRIDGE

im still waiting for camsis to update me... its been >2weeks

gooday mate.

Reply 65

Oh yeah... this guy got a $115k/pa job with a BB...

anyway my recommendation to him was do that for 3yrs then apply for an MBA or MFin...

Reply 66

wow pro. I'm waiting to hear back from Deutsche Bank myself - had final round interviews a couple days ago for M&A.

I would fully just work for a few years and then do a top mba in the us. Wayyyy better than Msc.

Reply 67

awm55

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makaveli121

wow pro. I'm waiting to hear back from Deutsche Bank myself - had final round interviews a couple days ago for M&A.

I would fully just work for a few years and then do a top mba in the us. Wayyyy better than Msc.

MBAs are almost worthless if you are going into markets though, it can be almost entirely soft skills. an MSc Finance is way more applicable

Reply 68

awm55

MBAs are almost worthless if you are going into markets though, it can be almost entirely soft skills. an MSc Finance is way more applicable

That's debateable... If you look at top BBs, they are almost always run by MBAs from Harvard, Stanford, Wharton etc. And the MPhil/MSc Finance holders are considered lucky if they reach VP level within 5-7 years.

3 years of donkey work (jr analyst - snr analyst)
2 years of asking others to do the donkey work (associates)

By the way, when my friend joined... the bank fired 8 out of the 10 ppl in that group, and left two associates and himself (analyst) as a three man syndicate lol.

Reply 69

verticalforce

Since I got rejected by LSE, I'm pretty sure now that Cam only care about the academic grades and don't really give a toss about anything else...

It will be useful for next year applicants to just compare their grades instead of ECs, internships etc... :woo:

I'm a bit bitter that I got rejected by LSE :p:

Reply 70

verticalforce

Since I got rejected by LSE, I'm pretty sure now that Cam only care about the academic grades and don't really give a toss about anything else...

It will be useful for next year applicants to just compare their grades instead of ECs, internships etc... :woo:

I'm a bit bitter that I got rejected by LSE :p:

Dude u got cam, you should be proud of yourself.

Dw about LSE :console:

Reply 71

sanpantan

OP

Hey Verticalforce，
You got rejected by LSE A&F?

Reply 72

verticalforce

sanpantan

Hey Verticalforce，
You got rejected by LSE A&F?

Not yet. But I want to try and avoid doing masters in accounting... so Cam is my best choice right now.. (if i meet the conditions)

Reply 73

sanpantan

OP

Got rejected :frown:

Sigh, really wanted it bad.

Offer Holders: Good luck in meeting your conditions and have plenty of fun there.

To all others: Go check your camsis, I think mine got updated today. If your status hasn't changed then chances are, you are still on the good list which is currently on hold until they can finalise on the number of offers to give out.

Reply 74

Marx5

Did anyone else hear anything last week?

I applied on the deadline and haven't heard a sound since.

Reply 75

What's your current camsis status? A couple others on quantnet.org got rejected recently too. I'm still stuck on papers with degree committee - we'll hopefully all hear back within a couple weeks.

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