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Pursuing Career Goals

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Essay 1: Describe your motivation for pursuing a master's degree.
• How does it fit with your long/short-term goals? How have your academic, career, or life experiences prepared you for this program?
• What strengths will you bring, and what knowledge and insights are you hoping to develop during this learning experience?
• Are there any concerns about your application that you would like to address?

Finance is the most intriguing field to me. While the economics focuses on how to optimize resource allocation, finance takes time and risk into consideration simultaneously. As I aspire to become an interdisciplinary financial professional, pursuing the MSM-Finance offered by Case Western Reserve University will give me strengths to be more competent.

Specializing in Finance with a minor in Economics, I have built myself a solid foundation. Due to my competitive GPA of 3.932/4.0, the Dean’s List honor of each semester from Autumn 2013 to Spring 2016, and …show more content…

In three years, I will strive to gain the CFA or CFP qualification, thereby better assisting in data process, investment analysis, and budget examination. In the long run, I wish to become the financial director who is capable of creating innovative solutions for real financial problems and providing rational investment and risk control as well as strategic decision-making.

In the MSM-Finance program, through the core courses ‘Empirical finance’, ‘Derivatives and risk management’, and ‘Investment Management’, I can conceptualize real-world financial problems with a broad range of analytical methods. Besides, the courses of the Financial Big Data Track, such as, ‘Quantitative Risk Modeling’ and ‘Applications in Financial Big Data’ will greatly strengthen my quantitative, evaluative and problem-solving skills. In the future, I am confident of my career success, which will enable me to better contribute as an

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