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[转帖]Oxford MFE 面经

可能有点晚了,刚刚拿到offer,把面试的经验拿出来跟大家分享一下。

Interviewer是 Alan Morrison,照片上看是个很smart的人,结果没想到面试时穿着很随便的毛衣,头发乱乱的,看起来刚睡醒的样子,不过人很好,不会给你压迫感。

我是早上9点半的面试,大概15分钟就结束了,那天面试的人大多都是10-20分钟。

几乎没有general questions。

  1. Q: What modules have you taken in your third year?
    A:  Econometrics, financial economics, Research in Applied economics......
  2. Q: What have you learned from Financial Economics?
    A:  corporate finance,capital structure.....(其实我这门课没去听过,因为和另外的课时冲撞了,所以都是用第二年学的finance蒙过去的)
  3. Q: What do you think is the most important development in capital structure over the past 50 years?
    M&M theory, 然后具体说了一遍MM(1958) and MM(1960) ,不过忘了personal taxation的部分了。然后他就一直问personal taxation对investment choice的影响,直到我终于想起来才放过我
  4. Debt to Equity Swap(具体忘了是什么了,只记得没学过不会回答,然后他一直在引导,直到我答对了)
  5. Q: What are your future career planning after you return to China? (问这题的原因是我personal statement里有提到要回国)
    A:  probably central banks(突然想不到临时编的)
  6. Q: Why do you want to go to central banks?
    A:  Because financial industry is fast developing and as the Chinese financial industry still have some problems, it is a great opportunity for me to contribute and succeed.
  7. Q: What problems does the financial industry face?
    A:  poor governance of banks. Large scale of Non-performing debt due to the support to state owned enterprises.
  8. Q: What strategies could the banks take to solve this problem?
    A:  Debt to Equity swap (从报纸上看来的,所以我很明确的告诉他我也不清楚具体是怎么回事,怕他再往下问)
  9. Q: Why do state owned enterprises perform badly?
    A:  Lack of incentive to increase productivity as government
  10. Q: Do you think privatisation is a good idea and do you think investors welcome privatisation and invest in these companies?
    A: Yes. Although the state owned companies are making losses, they have factories and equipments which could make profit is well managed.
  11. Q: What do you think is the most challenging part of this course?

后来我出来又问了一下别人,打算读PhD的都会问到研究方向。还有一个问题我觉得比较难回答的是‘Why does financial market exist?' 当时那个人没答上来,Alan就问了些别的问题,大概过了5分钟又绕回来问,所以回答的时候一定要尽量想可能的答案然后说出来,错了的话他会纠正你,并且把你引导会正确的方向。

我记得的大概就这么多,还有一些细节上的专业问题有点忘了,希望对大家有帮助

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u got the offer of PHD program?

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ding @@@@@@@@@@@

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没有,我拿到的offer是master in financial economics.

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Congradu!

Hi, I wonder whether you attend the activity on March 14?

I attended.

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thanks ,ding !!!!!!!!!!!!

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太牛了!恭喜lz。我也申请了,但是申得很晚,已经算在第三阶段了。lz可否分享背景?

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呵呵,谢谢。

我是在英国读的本科经济,可能相对比较好申请吧。

GPA听说英国的first class可以算是3.7-4.0

GRE真的很丢中国人的脸,quantitative才760,verbal670。所以GRE考得不好没关系,平时成绩补上就行了

admissioner说median 是800,不过GRE的weight没有很大,还说对他们来说GMAT更能区分人的能力

还有就是你在不管你在哪个阶段申请机会都是差不多的,他们expect今年能收到650份申请,然后Interview 300个人,最后录取75个

根据今年在读的数据看有14个中国学生,其中12个是从国内直接过来的。

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DING !!!!!!!!

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顶!!!!!!!

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