I am a senior at a university in Canada hoping to go into a Finance Ph.D program in the US.  
 
I would like to go into one of the top Finance Ph.D grad schools (In hopes of going to work in the industry afterwards). 
 
Here are my specs, please tell me what you think! 
 
Asian Female 
 
Major: Honours Physics 
 
GPA: ~3.7 
 
Courses: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Statistics, Introductory Econ, General to Advanced Physics (Intro, E&M up to grad level, Quantum up to grad level, Thermo, Classical Mech, Statistical Mech, Optics, Mathematical Physics) 
 
GRE: 770Q/550V/?W 
 
Experience: 
- 4 month work in a major mathematical software company as a application developer 
- 4 month work as a research assistant 
- 1 year physical chemistry research in a national laboratory in the US (3 publications pending) 
- 1 year experience working in top software company to develop voice recognition systems 
- 8 month work in developing voice recognition systems for embedded systems 
- 8 month research project in finance 
 
What do you think about my chances in US top financial phd programs? (also if you could suggest me some choices I'd be thankful!!!) 
 
I was thinking of applying to: 
Stanford 
UC Berkeley 
Chicago 
Columbia 
UPenn 
Duke 
Cornell 
 
=) =) =)