VeritasPrepDozie wrote:
I won't comment on the consultant side since I am one, but Veritas is here to help if there is interest on your end. But you certainly will and can be competitive with your profile. I would say your profile is not as unusual as you may think and with a strong academic pedigree, elite GMAT score and seemingly positive work experience you can compete at many top programs. Stanford and HBS are outliers for all but your profile would warrant real consideration from both programs, and the other top california based programs would fall into the strong fit category for you. Focus on what you want to get out of your ideal program and curate your target list that way and this should help you settle on which program makes sense for you
Thanks for the response Dozie, I thought a Humanities background was a bit left field and I certainly haven't seen anyone on these boards who did Latin or Greek (but I can't claim to have read each profile exhaustively). The bank is a credit card monoline in the UK (as it started in the US, Capital One) so probably less respected than IB or the like...From your reply it sounds like the lack of solid extra curricular doesn't put the Kibosh on things. What kind of Consulting does Veritas do? I could well be interested.
I think your point about what I want out of the program is probably the hardest one for me to answer. I think I could concoct a decent story about working in analytical marketing and wanting to broaden my skill set in order to work in consulting with an eye to moving into the automation industry in 5 or so years when machine learning has rendered much of the workforce replaceable with a SaaS but the truth is I don;t know, I want to work somewhere with lofty ideals, autonomy and power but that vague truth would no doubt get me canned as wishy washy beatnik... I think I'm in a good place but career-wise I'm directionless
edit: I'm also concerned that being 25 with 3 years work experience would negatively impact me