<p>I was wondering if anyone has taken this course. The course title is "Intro to Financial Engineering". I plan to do a MS in Financial Engineering, so this class definitely looks interesting. Thoughts/feedbacks are highly appreciated!</p>
<p>I also hope to do an MFE after graduation. </p>
<p>When I wrote him with the following ~6 months ago:</p>
<p>Would you recommend your class for students who intend to go to graduate school in Financial Engineering/Mathematical Finance, or is it more of a terminal course for students who just want to know a bit more about the subject?</p>
<p>He replied: </p>
<p>it’s difficult to say because of the different personal backgrounds. However, I think I would err on the side of the latter.</p>
<p>I think you’d be better off taking more math and statistics courses (Math 126 PDEs/STAT 135/150, etc.) beyond the usual math curriculum. I think additional finance courses would be more helpful than taking UGBA 137 like 131 (though it’s too bad UGBA 137 (Derivatives) was canceled)</p>
<p>Thanks pux. So my guess is that you ended up not taking the class too? </p>
<p>I think I’ll probably try to fit Stat 150 into my schedule instead. Thanks!</p>
<p>the best course for mfe offered at haas, IMO, was magin’s 137. ive spent a lot of time at haas’ mfe admissions office and talking to current students, and that’s what i’ve concluded.</p>
<p>i’ve taken stats 157 (asset pricing models) and that is helpful. my math adviser swears by math 126, but that’s because he teaches it… it’s all well and good to learn the pde’s etc etc, but mfe doesn’t really need to know the nuts and bolts of solving them, but just knowing *** is going on and not looking like an idiot when talking about them, as you’ll be grinding a couple SDE’s (stochastic differential eqx’s) in the intro curriculum.</p>
<p>anyway, classes are classes. take a word from your senior: an ounce of networking is worth a pound of coursework.</p>
<p>to address your true question, everyone ive asked who took 137 with prof N said they hated it. u can come up with a lot of the excel models with ugba 103 background and fudging around numbers.</p>
<p>I’ve heard magin is god awful though…</p>
<p>It’s too bad the stat 157 you took last fall with Evans wont be offered any time in the near future.</p>
<p>What are your plans now Crowslayer? Are you entering an MFE program?</p>
<p>Interesting, crowslayer. Thanks for the insight! </p>
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word, sir.</p>
<p>I also heard magin is terrible, from a friend took it with him last fall, and Ninja Course.</p>
<p>I think I’m going with Stat 135/Math 126 in the fall, and Stat 150 + IEOR 221 in my last semester. Thoughts? D:</p>
<p>I would pick stat 135 in the fall and stat 150 in the spring for sure… and take 126 if you can. if anything, always take ieor 221 instead of ugba 137. i considered taking ieor 221 (it doesnt seem too bad), but i think for the purposes of the mfe admissions, it seems better to me to take a bunch of hard and relevant applied math/statistics classes. and after that to take maybe some finance courses or econometrics space permitting</p>
<p>For what its worth, I’ll be taking math 126 in the fall and stat 150 in the spring. </p>
<p>Though of course, I’d love to hear from Crowslayer’s experience.</p>
<p>so for normal Finance classes (non math focus)</p>
<p>after sequence of UGBA 103, 131 and 132</p>
<p>Do you recommend to continue
UGBA 137-1 with margin and -2 with Namvar.</p>
<p>I got an impression both are bad because…(material not useful of teaching skill…?)</p>