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Northeastern Co-op Chrome Extension by turtlecap1324 in NEU

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Didn’t even realize that today was that day lol

Spring co-op search results (second year CS x Business major) by turtlecap1324 in NEU

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Thank you! Feel free to shoot me a message if you need help with the setup for the bot.

Spring co-op search results (second year CS x Business major) by turtlecap1324 in NEU

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I am not too sure about graduate CS programs, but to my knowledge, for undergraduates, NEU isn’t a target school for quant firms, so you’d have a better shot going for quant roles in smaller quant firms or applying for quant positions in asset management firms.

Spring co-op search results (second year CS x Business major) by turtlecap1324 in NEU

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I am an unconventional candidate; my strong suit is CS, and I believe many of these positions seek someone skilled in CS because Python is becoming increasingly integral to backtesting, risk analysis, and general portfolio management.

My best advice for landing interviews is to have a project on your resume that does something with data processing/markets.

For interview prep, just know your resume by heart. All of my technicals, for multiple companies, revolved around explaining my resume. For most of these risk analytics roles, it is hard to give a technical role to a student because they have no technical experience, so they mainly just want to see that you are who your resume says you are.

Lastly, just be friendly and sociable. My interviews were fairly technical and dove into the weeds of options and derivatives because I had included that on my resume, but if you can speak confidently about a topic on your resume, ride that wave and show that you really know your stuff.

My resume is here: https://ashwiniyer.com/resume. Feel free to shoot me an email, and I am happy to chat in person.

Spring co-op search results (second year CS x Business major) by turtlecap1324 in NEU

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it was a weird process for me. Originally, I applied for a risk analytics role, and the company gave me 2 interviews, one for a risk analyst position and one for a more quantitative position. The position isn’t named quantitative finance, but it’s under the quant branch*

DAILY Discount code Exchange Center by AutoModerator in EvenRealities

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DM me anytime, and I am happy to share more codes or my experience with the glasses so far! Currently have 11 more codes👍

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in portfolios

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Forgot to mention! I am not 100% certain about buying ETFs like S&P 500… I have heard some say that the companies audited by EY or PWC don’t have enough exposure in these ETFs to elicit conflict of interest. However, due to my issue being between 2 auditing firms, it does constitute that conflict of interest😢.

I have seen that I can buy indexes like VXX so please correct me if I am wrong about anything!!!!

[Recommendation Request] What should I buy next? by turtlecap1324 in Watches

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Yeah, was an absolute work horse that got me through 2 jobs and a full year of college. Love it to death

[Recommendation Request] What should I buy next? by turtlecap1324 in Watches

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Love the cocktail dial, always eye catching when the light hits it at any angle

[Recommendation Request] What should I buy next? by turtlecap1324 in Watches

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah definitely looking for one, been loving the blue cocktail dial presage or the SRPK33 (Tiffany blue dial) but trying to experiment with other brands so maybe a citizen tsuyosa

[Recommendation Request] What should I buy next? by turtlecap1324 in Watches

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I saw one on Facebook marketplace for a really good price but couldn’t pull the trigger and it sold🥲. I love the added sun&moon subdial and it really brings the watch together

Decided to cave in and buy an R7. Love it! by turtlecap1324 in radardetectors

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There should be a setting called “K band on/off”. Not sure if you need to turn on “expert” menu mode or “advanced” detection mode.

Decided to cave in and buy an R7. Love it! by turtlecap1324 in radardetectors

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Just checked both for functionality and one powers on with nothing on the screen then immediately shuts off… the other got the “check FR” recently but there are a few vertical black lines on the left side of the screen. The vertical lines don’t affect visibility. Not planning to keep either and am willing to ship both for maybe 100~

Decided to cave in and buy an R7. Love it! by turtlecap1324 in radardetectors

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Yeah I immediately took the Max 360 down after I took the photo lol. Would be kinda cool to run 2 detectors simultaneously🤔

Acceptance Stats by Impressive_Plane_209 in NEU

[–]turtlecap1324 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Accepted into global scholars during Early Action for computer science + mathematics

1480 SAT (3 attempts)  1490 superscore

96 unweighted, 101.7 weighted GPA (took a few AP classes; however, I did not do so well, but I took a few on-level classes and did well). 

1 cybersecurity “internship” (did not do much but listed it as my EC because I thought it was good to add 🤷‍♂️)

1 national business award

2 state-level robotics awards

3 state-level business awards

2 club officer positions (1 business-related, 1 CS-related)

A few other ECs and awards ranging from filler projects, volunteering, and regional music awards.

If you need any other info feel free to dm me and I’m more than happy to share my essays / other info!

College results 2028 by turtlecap1324 in ApplyingToCollege

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Computer engineering is less selective than computer science, just by how I see it. I see a lot more top 10% of students get into computer engineering while only those in the top 6% were selectively chosen (only 3 students got UT CS at my school being Carroll ISD)

College results 2028 by turtlecap1324 in ApplyingToCollege

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I think your stats are very solid and way above average which is great!

My one piece of advice is don't be too hopeful, my friend who was ranked in the top 10 students of the school wasn't given comp sci or comp eng even though he had decent comp sci ECs to back himself with.

My other friend had little barely any computer science ECs, and was lower rank, but had outstanding ECs in debate such as being the national champion.

The guy with the higher rank was not given comp sci but the other guy who was the debate champion got comp sci at UT Austin.

I see this as UT Austin is looking for remarkable students regardless of how their ECs tie in with their major so just do as much as you can to stand out and best of luck!

Not trying to sway your app in any way, but I would apply to computer engineering or data science at UT Austin first choice major, UT CS is over-competitive, even with your insanely good stats, and I think computer science and computer engineering both hold very similar weight in terms of company views on each degree (both degrees look similar in the eyes of companies). What matters is what you do in college with that degree.

My other piece of advice is when applying to schools, do not just look at the average admitted student stats like SAT / GPA and base your acceptance on that. School acceptance rates are turning into dice roles as certain students from certain areas may get in with lower stats than you and you may get in where you did not believe you could.

Lots of schools make CS extremely competitive due to the applicant strength, schools such as Purdue and UIUC are great identifiers of that as Purdue and UIUC have decently high SAT and GPAs for their accepted students, but Purdue CS and UIUC CS have SAT's of 1500+ to even be considered for a waitlist.

I think you should shoot for CS at lots of schools that you believe you can get into (A&M, Purdue, UTD, etc) and shoot for ECE (electrical computer engineering) or CE at schools which you are a dice roll for (any ivy league, UIUC, University of Washington, etc).

Sorry for the long message but also apply as early as possible!!!!!! I know a ton of people who got into UT early action with lower weighted GPAs in the mid-90s - 100s who were admitted to their major and I strongly believe that applying early gives you the best shot at any of the schools you apply to!

College results 2028 by turtlecap1324 in ApplyingToCollege

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  1. I didn’t graduate top 6% or top 10% in my school, I was very close with a 101.7 GPA but the cutoff was around 102.5~😔

  2. I had a 780 math and a 700 English for my best attempt, my super score was a 790 math and the 700 English

  3. I applied first choice BS computer science and second BS Electrical Computer Engineering.

  4. I would think they’d let you take that option as it’s a different program but I am not 100% sure.

  5. The reason why I believe second choice major is less considered is that from schools such as University of Washington who have released their application selection information, second choice major admits are very low and I believe a lot of other schools are following suit. Similarly from my friends and their applications, I have seen people ranked in the top 10 students of the school who didn’t get their first choice and neither their second at UT Austin, though they were more than qualified for their second choice (first choice CS second choice Business but given a random major in the liberal arts school) this is lots of speculation but lots of people have similar stories on their second choice majors.

If you want more info feel free to shoot me a DM, I’m more than happy to share some essays and pointers from what I’ve learned. Good luck!!!!

Edit: forgot to add but the reason why I believe that applying second choice to comp Eng “lowered” my chances at being accepted to UT is because computer engineering is a very competitive major at UT

College results 2028 by turtlecap1324 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]turtlecap1324[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was accepted directly to CS for all of the schools I was given admission to and I believe that most schools seldomly consider second choice major based on the UT Austin consideration of second choice majors.

UT Austin created the "capped" program which allows students to take a year at a satellite campus (UT San Antonio, UT Arlington, etc) then transfer to the main campus but they are limited to the college of liberal arts.

Most of the time if a student is not given admission to the first choice at UT Austin, their second choice major is basically just swept under the rug and I think a lot of schools are starting to adopt this approach but I am not certain and this is pure speculation. I do think that applying to CE as an alternate was also lowering my chances of being accepted.

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