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I believe the case has been settled ? The judges ruled that this was unlawful discrimination and that the Jewish school was breaking laws whose very design included protecting Jews from discrimination. This is of course not unique to any religion, once religions get any sort of power, you find that being "the wrong kind of X" can get quite uncomfortable surprisingly quickly... A Christian child can be denied a state funded Christian...

Quote Originally posted by: DSPGuy What about snake handlers? And Rastafarians? i wouldnt worry about them - Darwin's law takes care. rastafarians dont believe in medicine. in the world of avian flu, it doesn't fly, pun intended

Quote Originally posted by: elio If I were you I would apply to LBS anyway. It doesn't take much time and you don't know exactly what they are looking for. You have some related experience which is certainly a plus. Have a look at people's profile at LBS MiF, almost every second guy has an MBA.

If you can get into LBS, jump at the chance. It's connections with all the City institutions and slickness of recruitment - even globally - are second to none.

I don't know much about EPFL, except that they help in arranging in internship, which is quite feasible given number of shops in Geneva. Concerning MSc QF in Zurich, I would say that graduates' placements depend mostly on the graduates themselves, though benefiting from the program's contacts is not that uncommon also. I once spoke to a guy from Imperial's masters and I think it's actually quite the same there,...

Can someone comment on the distribution of jobs in quantitative finance? (very broadly defined skill-wise, to include jobs that involve quantitative finance and also statistical/econometric work, etc) Where is one likely to find jobs? Do types of jobs and employers differ by location? Which place is most likely for landing a junior position? Are any entry-level positions likely to be found on the West Coast? Edited: Mon Nov 30, 09 at 04:21 PM...

The vast majority of quant jobs are in New York City area. Portfolio management is a bit more distributed, and there are some hedge funds outside of the NYC area. In some areas, it's rather hard to get an entry level position, because one thing that you have to convince people of is that you won't move to NYC. There are a lot of finance jobs on the West Coast, but these tend to be more private equity and venture capital and less...

Alright, but how is the placement record of ETH MSc QF and EPFL MSc Fin Eng? I think you may have some insights.

Anecdotally (from the US), during a recent interview I mentioned that I was married and the interviewer looked frightened and began to stammer that he wasn't allowed to ask me questions about that. I can only imagine what he would have said if I started to go into religion or politics...

Yes, definitely answering those questions is extremely important. Without this I wouldn't put my real money on the market. But there's still a place for improvements and new approaches. And passion helps me here a lot. Dominic, regarding my English, I just mentioned about it because I'm aware of my poor English :-) Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned about this however in the way I did.