joemoran

I talk to an admissions officer from LBS a couple of weeks and his short answered is yes: being in the CFA program is very important. This guy goes through all candidates and he knew perfectly well what the program was and what it entailed.

I'm guessing it will be different for non-top schools and/or schools not finance oriented (but why the hell do you wanna go there?)

One of the founders of the CFA Institute was a Columbia alumni and teacher and they have a CFA Club on campus, do you think admissions don't know about it?? hell yea!

I really don't care that CPA's don't know what the CFA is. I just care that people in finance know, and more and more so do.