<p>Hey there everyone, this is my very first post on this forum and I would appreciate some candid feedback on the subsequent question:</p>
<p>So, I have decided that I want to work as a Quant, or perhaps I should say in computational/mathematical finance. I have been working as an Aerospace Engineer for roughly 3 years now and also doing my PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, CollegePark MD. The Aerospace program at UMD is renown and is a top-10 school as you can see from the US News rankings below from 2010.</p>
<p>#1 California Institute of Technology
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#3 Stanford University
#4 Georgia Institute of Technology<br>
#5 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor<br>
#6 Purdue University--West Lafayette<br>
#7 Princeton University<br>
#7 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign<br>
#9 University of Maryland--College Park (Clark) <-----------------------
#10 Texas A&M University--College Station (Look)
#10 University of Texas--Austin (Cockrell) </p>
<p>So, I am supposed to graduate by summer 2012 and I am hoping to gain entrance into Harvard's Applied Math Master's degree program for Fall 2012. I have not yet retaken the GREs, but I am certain I will score 800 on the quantitative section without a problem. I scored 760 on it a few years ago, and I did not study that much. The problem might be with the verbal section though...yikes..
So, these are my grade points</p>
<p>BSc :3.09, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (top 20)
MSc :3.50, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (top 10)
PhD :3.92, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (top 10)</p>
<p>My MSc and PhD research entailed computational fluid dynamics, Fortran, Matlab, C++ programming, partial differential equations, and the likes...</p>
<p>The one thing that I am uneasy about it my undergraduate gpa, I was not serious at all as an undergrad. Anyway, so let me hear the feedback from everyone.</p>