Would you hire a dude like this: Math&Stat undergrad, then an MSF.
I graduated from a complete nontarget in mathematics & statistics, with a smattering of courses in econ, finance, and accounting (all basic intro ones, mind you). Accepted into Boston College MSF. I am looking to intern by day for one year, since the MSF program is at night.
Math background: analysis, linear algebra, numerical analysis and sci computation. I can program in Matlab, Fortran 90, R, SAS enterprise, Excel.
I can claim zero working experience besides tutoring and TA-ing. I had two independent research papers in applied math presented at conferences.
GRE: 95% Q, 97% V, GPA: 3.62
Would you hire me as an intern / would you hire me as FT? If no, what would I need to change that?
I love analyzing data and finance has drawn me in with promises of endless spreadsheets and a good time. I'm not interested in being a straight up quant writing programs. Thanks, yo.
There's a shit load of jobs in analytics and quant stuff that would kill for someone who could program in those languages. The only thing I would recommend is to learn SQL since you will be working with databases (though I guess you can use proc sql in SAS). And I think you'd probably need to take an internship if you have zero work experience.
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