Building Your Quant Master's Shortlist: Which Programs Fit You, and What Each One Looks For
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM PDT. Hosted by Fiona Taft.
Where you apply is the highest-leverage decision of your application cycle, and most applicants get it backwards, chasing the famous names over the programs that actually fit their profile. In this free live session, Fiona Taft, former Executive Director of the UC Berkeley MFE program and Associate Director at Stanford, shows you how to build a quant master's shortlist that fits: how the top programs differ, from MFE and MFin to MSCF and mathematical finance, what each one actually weighs in an application, and where you realistically stand across reach, target, and safety. She's joined by Apeksha Jain, a 2022 graduate of UC Berkeley's MFE program at the Haas School of Business, so you get both sides: the director who read the files and a graduate who sat where you're sitting now. Come with your questions; there's time for them live on Zoom.