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Could you consider adding subtitles to upcoming videos? This would be really helpful for those who don't have English as their first language. All your videos are helpful!!
I scored 615 on my first GMAT Focus attempt which is translating to 680. I am a BBA graduate and have scored an A+ in all my finance and math subjects. I will also have completed 2 years of experience in financial research and analysis at the time of submitting my application. Can you tell me how I can improve my chances of getting accepted. Also, is my GMAT score enough or do I have to retake it?
I like your tips as a.professional.Pls.elaborate Ii in real sense practically in terms of corporate financial management,/Financial Management/HRM nd T&D.Good nd nice tips lecture,,👍
I personally did a masters to buy some time to get my career plans in check. But also it made sense as the skills learnt in finance coming from a physics background were going to be directly useful. The first term on a business/finance masters is definitely stressful trying to balance job applications with studies, but ultimately very rewarding and productive. I think masters are a great stepping stone and the network stays with you.😊
Idk, it always rubbed me the wrong way when someone oriented their extracurriculars along their attractiveness on their CV. Passion and excellence in these side-projects is more important than fancy names or superficial importance
Hi Richard, Just wanted to thank you so much for making these videos, I have watched all your postgraduate videos before beginning my application. I followed your entire structure and involved all tips in my personal statement. I am pleased to let you know that I received offers from all universities that I applied to. Which are LSE, Imperial, UCL and Bayes for MSc Finance. I did not apply to LBS since I didn't have a GMAT. I thank you so much for your help since I was worried I would not be accepted by any of the universities since I hadn't done a GMAT.
Hi Richard, Just wanted to thank you so much for making these videos, I have watched all your postgraduate videos before beginning my application. I followed your entire structure and involved all tips in my personal statement. I am pleased to let you know that I received offers from all universities that I applied to. Which are LSE, Imperial, UCL and Bayes for MSc Finance. I did not apply to LBS since I didn't have a GMAT. I thank you so much for your help since I was worried I would not be accepted by any of the universities since I hadn't done a GMAT.
Hello Sir, thank you for sharing a very informative video. I am 24yrs old. I have secured 10CGPA in 10th grade and 97% in year 12 (prime subjects were mathematics, economics & commerce). I have completed my CA articleship from PwC and I am yet to clear my CA final examination. I have also completed bachelor’s degree in commerce with 65% from a recognised university in India. There has been a gap of 3 years in my academic history. I am interested in MA economics. Could you please tell me if I am at a disadvantage?
in terms of step 3, where you speak to your referee, apart from using extracurricular courses, how could i self teach myself accounting and finance and what are the best methods to do so in order to boost my reference and make it stand out?
It makes sense that a reference from a good referee is very important in the university applications, but most students probably wouldn't make the connection with that being more important than the personal statement itself. It's these simple but clear tips that are actionable by a student that are the valuable part of this youtube channel on university applications for sure.
As with everything, AI is a tool and subject to rubbish in/rubbish out. A skilled operator, using chat GPT intelligently to enhance their ideas, rather than using it in a lazy way, could be beneficial. Simply outsourcing thinking to a bot is generally a bad strategy as it will underperform either a skilled human, or a skilled operator of chatgpt.
Great reminder, I can't imagine anything worse than having thousands of applicants writing the same way and applying the same strategies suggested by ChatGPT/AI.
How do I approach the task of getting a post-master job offer pre-master, I thought that firms usually only give out post-internship offers for starting directly after
Great question! The majority of our candidates this year now have their postgraduate offers in from the likes of Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, LSE, LBS, Imperial, HEC, INSEAD, UCL and more! For those who do not have internships yet, some will leverage these brand names to try to secure and off-cycle internship (possibly virtually, or else outside of the UK or the 'Big 4/Magic 5 etc'). The trick is to add the postgraduate degree to the top of your CV as soon as you get the offer, and see if this helps you to open doors over summer. This is the sort of job applications consultancy that we provide at The Profs
This might occur for a couple of reasons: 1) Different definitions of the acceptance rate (the success rate can be defined as the offer rate or the enrolment rate, and we tend to use the latter in our postgraduate videos, which is the number of enrolments over the number of applicants, as we feel as 'acceptance' is feel a student accepts an offer). 2) Acceptance raters change dramatically over the years and data analytics and computer science courses courses have dropped significantly over the years, as can be seen from this source and information requests. We try to update our website as frequently as we can, but given the size of our website and our limited resources sometimes older blog posts have not been updated fully to reflect these changes. www.admissionreport.com/university-college-london/msc-business-analytics
Good question! Surprisingly little to be honest. Most universities do not even ask for your school grades, or else it is optional at postgraduate level. If you have strong grades, it is worth mentioning this in your application along with your undergraduate grades to show a long track record of academic success. The only exception is if you do not have an undergraduate degree, in which case your school grades will be taken into consideration, or if you are applying to a quantitative course but your degree was not quantitative, in which case they will look at your highest maths grade (e.g. A level/IB or GCSE).
Firstly, thank you for the video, it's very helpful in guiding me into what steps I should take. I do have a couple questions though, I have a keen interest in maths, but I thoroughly enjoy the more practical uses of maths in the business and economics world, and find the pure theory aspect with proofs, etc, a bit daunting, I considered this course due to the business side of it, would you say it's still worth applying to it? Secondly, this course seems to be specific to LSE, what other courses do you recommend from other universities that are similar to this, and doesn't make my personal statement seem diluted. Thank you once again for the video!
Yes this course is exactly for someone who wants to apply their passion for maths to the real world of business. You sound like a great fit. For you PS - pick an interesting topic that you can apply your interests to - eg perhaps you can find a consultancy firm that has used econometric theory to model something interesting for their client. The most common courses applied to with this course are Maths & Economics, particularly at UCL and Warwick. LSE's MSB is so broad that any maths/stats course or economics/business management course could be paired with it. Good luck!
We get our stats from information requests - often via third party sites such as Admissions Report and WhatDoTheyKnow. LBS's MaM had a 25% acceptance rate in 2020, but this has decreased with the increased demand for data, AI and analytics courses in recent years. E.g. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/admission_statistics_master_in_a
If i already have an excellent internship and already a job offer lined up, why would i join any business school. Majority of the students go to business school in order to get that internship, in order to get that job. If i already have that, i wouldn't spend my hard earned money on business school
I couldn't agree more. I always consider deadlines for university applications to be the day the applications open, not the day they close. But I had never considered the fact that you then compete with the best and most prepared applicants to a university degree. The idea of applying early but a little bit later than the open date for masters applications is a really useful tip on how to get into a postgraduate course, especially if you don't have the best grades or strongest application.
With such a high GMAT score, many Master's would be interested. We would recommend going to an open day and speaking with LBS and Cambridge in particular as they favour high GMAT scores over work experience, and have pre-experience Master's so you are not competing with those with more than one year of work experience. Good luck!
With such a high GMAT score, many Master's would be interested. We would recommend going to an open day and speaking with LBS and Cambridge in particular as they favour high GMAT scores over work experience, and have pre-experience Master's so you are not competing with those with more than one year of work experience. Good luck!
Well done for getting on to the waitlist! It is very hard for us to say what Imperial will do with their waitlist as we do not yet know the number of quality of candidates this cycle. If you have any other Masters' offers, there is a small chance that letting Imperial know that you have an offer from another university and are being pushed by that university to get back to you, might encourage Imperial to make you an offer rather than lose you to a competitor. It's a long shot, but we've seen it work before.
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I found your explanation incredibly helpful and motivating. A goldmine of insights for someone looking to study Economic History. Cheers for sharing 📚🎓
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Thanks for sharing this video! Applying for postgrad courses can be quite the process, so it's helpful to have a guide like this to give you an idea of what to expect.
These tips definitely give me hope of winning a place at the university of my dreams! It's reassuring to see some tangible signs that I might be on the right track. I appreciate your insight!
just had a question, for a masters degree do colleges like LBS, LSE look at your gcse/a- levels or IB grades? or is it entirely based on your gmat/gre, undergrad grades and work exp?
Having a long track record of strong grades is helpful for LSE in particular (because they do not interview, so your grades count for more), but your undergraduate grade and GMAT/GRE count for far, far more. Having good GCSEs/A Levels shows you have been a dedicate student, but would not be enough, alone, to make up for poor undergrad grades. The two exceptions are: 1) Maths A level if you do not have a quantitative degree. 2) English GCSE/A Level if you have not studied in English as this can be used to pass the language requirement.
It mainly depends on your experience level. As a general rule, less than 5 years, MiM. More than 5 years, MBA but there are some notable exceptions, however. People can and do complete both qualifications as they are not mutually exclusive.
Thanks so much for you videos really been helpful, managed to get offer from Imperial for their Fintech course!! I had applied to the Fintech course instead of the regular Finance since I come from a Computer Science undergraduate (from semi-target university such as Warwick), I thought this would give me more flexibility in terms of job options as the course has modules (basically same as the regular Finance course) for IB such as M&A, Corporate Finance etc as well as Quant related modules such as C++ and Algorithmic Trading. I am looking to apply to both quant roles and IB roles. This is why I didn’t apply to any Finance masters in the other top unis you have mentioned in your videos such as Oxbridge, LSE and LBS since their was not really a course which allowed this much flexibility. Would you say this would be a good course option due to its flexibility or should I apply to any other course in the other unis? Thanks!
Congrats on your result and thanks for sharing Jack! This late in the cycle, we would not expect results for MSc Finance programmes for top-5 schools unless you really have a world-beating profile (2++ years of experience and 1st class). Imperial is a great brand and if you preferred the FinTech optionality enough to course it over straight Finance, then stick with it! One sneaky trick to hedge your bets is to put on your CV Imperial MSc Finance (FinTech specialism), which is common when someone has a unusually named degree title and have concerns that the course name itself might distract recruiters. Hope that helps and well done again!!
If I wanted to get into a masters in management at INSEAD, would I need to do a GMAT? I understand you say that average GMAT score is quite high, but is there a way to get into INSEAD MIM without a GMAT? Also would a 2.1 hold me back versus a 1st at University in the UK?
We are not aware of INSEAD offering GMAT waivers currently. During the pandemic, they were making exemptions, but have since dropped this requirement. It is, however, still possible to get into INSEAD with a much lower GMAT score than the average if someone aces all other aspects of the application, and our premium consultants have helped students to do this. For management courses, a 2:1 is not enough to hold you back. Many top-tier finance courses, however, do expect a 1st, which is why we often recommend Imperial and UCL's MSc Management with finance specialisms as a half-way house.
