Financial Engineering Personal Statement

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I am a second-year graduate student at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. My decision to pursue Master of Engineering degree has been motivated by my ultimate objective of digging deeply into the field of Financial Engineering. I firmly believe that I possess the requisite background and aptitude for pursuing active research in this area at Cornell.

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My interest in financial engineering has burgeoned during my internship at L 'Or 'eal in 2015 after I received the offer for graduate school. I spent approximately two weeks determining the right combination of Excel formulas to create a clearly structured format to show the performance of sales among different groups of retail companies
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Additionally, I look forward to the challenges of discovering potential rules hiding behind public financial numbers or predicting different possibilities of the future from historical trends. Among the courses provided in this program, ORIE 5610, ORIE 5550 and STSCI 4740 interest me most from which I can expand my knowledge and explore in time series and machine learning. The skills that this program will teach me and the mode of problems solving I will learn from it are directly applicable to the problems I feel challenged and fits my desire for systematic learning. The theoretical and practical courses are exactly what I have been looking for in a master program, and Cornell delivers it. Furthermore, the opportunity to work with people from industries is the best way to discover the gaps in learning and get to know about the problems the real world …show more content…
Working as the vice-president of Graduate Student Council, I arranged plenty of social events for all graduate students campus wide while maintaining a budget of more than $100,000. Reaching out to different resources and negotiating to bring the most benefit to students has been my duty for the academic year. As the president of Multicultural Club, I am also taking the lead in creating a diverse community on campus by celebrating different cultures ' perspectives and traditions, including food, places, and festivals like Diwali and Chinese New Year, to strengthen the sense of identity and appreciation of everyone. Additionally, I also volunteered to build an official website for RePlay for Kids with Joomla, a non-profit organization repairing and adapting toys, and educating families and clinicians and thus could ignite the hope of life for those families that are currently in their low.

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I am certain that I will be a great fit in Cornell 's Operations Research and Information Engineering program. My research and internship experiences across many different fields will contribute to and provide unique perspectives on classroom discussions. I am a very motivated self-learner and am already excited about the challenges that this program will offer

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