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Essay 2:

Describe your background and preparation in the four concentration areas of the MSCF program – finance, computer science, math and statistics. In particular, detail your background in calculus-based probability.


In applying for your MSCF program, my background and preparation make me a competitive candidate. As a student of computer science at State University of New York, I have strong background in some of the four concentrations areas while in others I have tried to be strong through unique research experiences and entrepreneurship endeavors.

Although not specializing in finance, I have been an investor on the Chinese stock market since high school, at the age of 18 when I was qualified to open an account and to trade. Over the years, I have accumulated valuable experiences and done transactions not only in the stock market but also in the futures market and foreign exchange market. The most important thing is that, as I came to study in the US, I have also been trading on the American market. Throughout, I have followed the developments of the Chinese, the American, and the global financial market, reading all the leading magazines and newspapers on global capital market and acquiring valuable insights.

In the 20XX Spring Term, I took a course Introduction to Economics (ECO 108) in which I was exposed to economic analysis, microeconomics and macroeconomics. For 20XX Spring Term, I will take Entrepreneurship (BUS 353). As a sophomore, I became interested in financial mathematics and focused on studying technical trading. Working together with several friends back in China, I developed an automatic trading system based on a number of technical indicators. With initial success, I am thinking about upgrading the system. Early this year, I co-founded Glass Capital Research Inc. focusing on developing behavioral investment risk analysis and trading solutions to asset managers, and developing theories and techniques in headline risk management. To improve my finance knowledge, I have been self-studying books such as Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy and The Volatility Edge in Options Trading by Jeff Augen, as well as those by Chinese scholars. I will take CFA (Level 1) exams scheduled for June 20XX. Through all those efforts, I have developed a broad knowledge base in finance akin to that of a finance student.

Computer science is obviously a field where my greatest strength lies. I am attending Stony Brook’s Honors Program in Computer Science and my academic transcript indicates that I have already taken about 15 core courses, covering fundamentals of computer science, computer organizations, database, operating systems, software engineering, interface, programming, computation theory, algorithms, advanced programming, system security, etc. I will take two more core courses--Simulation and Modeling, and Database--next semester. In addition, as research assistant at our Department’s SPLAT Lab, I developed a C tool to externalize security flaws in Unix-like systems and I also developed optimized operations for various Unix-like systems. Based on my research findings at the Lab, I co-authored a paper "Exploiting Unix File-System Races via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks" which was published at the 20XX IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Berkeley, CA). The symposium, as a most influential one, accepted only 10% of the submitted papers and my co-authored paper fully testifies to my computer proficiency and research abilities.

To be a successful student of computer science entails a good command of mathematics. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I have long recognized the importance of mathematics. I have done much coursework on the subject, including Applied Linear Algebra, Finite Mathematical Structures, Theories of Computation, Calculus (I) and (II), which I studied with special initiative and purpose. The grades I have obtained in all of them are fairly good. Next semester, I will study Introduction to Time Series Analysis (AMS 316). Most importantly, quite a number of computer courses overlap with mathematics, such as Foundations of Computer Science (CSE 150) which is an introduction to the logical and mathematical foundations of computer science, and Analysis of Algorithms, which deals in mathematical analysis of a variety of computer algorithms including search, sorting, matrix multiplication, fast Fourier transform, and graph algorithms, etc.

In terms of statistics, I took a course Survey of Probability and Statistics (AMS 310), which covers data analysis, probability theory, and statistics—stem and leaf display, box plots, schematic plots, fitting straight line relationships, discrete and continuous probability distributions, conditional distributions, binomial distributions, normal and t distributions, confidence intervals, and significance tests. As mentioned above, I also studied Calculus (I) and Calculus (II), getting “A” grades in both. Furthermore, by applying my computer and quantitative skills, I have developed a number of statistical models during our company’s product R & D. Specifically, I have contributed to trading strategy construction, risk modeling, and custom analytic tools (applying GARCH, Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, and non-parametric VaR analysis). In the trading strategy construction, I focused on a particularly robust behavioral volatility arbitrage system, including a back-testing system, portfolio analytics and optimization, and integration with third-party trading systems.

In examining my background and preparation in the four concentration areas of the MSCF program, I find that, in some of those areas, I have not only sound academic knowledge but also rich practical experience of research and application. This should distinguish me from many other applicants. To a large extent, before studying your MSCF program, I have already been working in the field of financial engineering. Therefore, I am fully prepared. Your advanced program will make me a truly well-trained financial engineer. To this extent, I will be looking forward to entering your prestigious program.




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