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Schools: Chicago (Booth) - Class of 2009
GMAT 1: 730 Q45 V45
WE: Business Development (Consumer Products)
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Age: 27
GPA: 3.0 / 4.0 Economics, Top 10 university
GMAT: 730
Background: Perm resident, but international - Italian citizen, lived in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Washington DC. Fluent in English and Italian, some French. Work experience all US based.
Work exp: ~6 years, mortgage and consulting industry focused, youngest senior analyst at my firm of over 4000 employees, lead teams of 3-4 people, some great leadership stories to use in my applications. Interview candidates, assist in hiring decisions. Worked in both consulting industry (focused in financial services) and in the mortgage industry - roughly half and half - 3 years in each. Youngest and only non executive level professional invited to monthly strategic meetings. Some random key highlights: Identified unique solution to interest problem, net savings: $1MM. Identified cost reduction opportunities at a major global airline (during consulting), resulting in approx $30MM annual savings, exceeding goals by $4MM. Responsible for operations at 12 domestic and 3 international facilities. Youngest member of a twelve person "Furlough board" (for 150MM+ publicly traded consulting firm) in 2001 representing the interests of approx 300 furloughed employees to senior management.
Inbetween jobs for 3 months, I travelled to Honduras and started a underwater videography service which was quite sucessful - targeting visiting divers. Even did some work for the BBC.
Extracurricular:
Co-Director of 400 group alumni admissions council for my alma mater. Coordinate recruiting events, interview high school seniors for admission, etc.
Elected class representative, swiss boarding school. Plan reunions, events, fundrasing etc.
Event planner for an Italian Language club
Strategic Advisor to non profit school in Honduras, help fundrasing efforts.
Scuba Videographer, clients included the BBC.
Four Publishications in a magazine, circulation ~ 1.3MM
Developed independent film website in 2005, sold 12/05, ranked among 40,000 most visited sites on the net.
Older extracurriculars (pre professional life):
Guide, swiss alps. Lead students through hikes in the swiss alps.
Targets:
HBS
KGSM
CHICAGO
YALE
CORNELL
GEORGETOWN
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Re: Eval Profile ?? [#permalink]
 21 Sep 2006, 16:12
rhyme wrote: Age: 27
GPA: 3.0 / 4.0 Economics, Top 10 university
GMAT: 730
Background: Perm resident, but international - Italian citizen, lived in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Washington DC. Fluent in English and Italian, some French. Work experience all US based.
Work exp: ~6 years, mortgage and consulting industry focused, youngest senior analyst at my firm of over 4000 employees, lead teams of 3-4 people, some great leadership stories to use in my applications. Interview candidates, assist in hiring decisions. Worked in both consulting industry (focused in financial services) and in the mortgage industry - roughly half and half - 3 years in each. Youngest and only non executive level professional invited to monthly strategic meetings. Some random key highlights: Identified unique solution to interest problem, net savings: $1MM. Identified cost reduction opportunities at a major global airline (during consulting), resulting in approx $30MM annual savings, exceeding goals by $4MM. Responsible for operations at 12 domestic and 3 international facilities. Youngest member of a twelve person "Furlough board" (for 150MM+ publicly traded consulting firm) in 2001 representing the interests of approx 300 furloughed employees to senior management.
Inbetween jobs for 3 months, I travelled to Honduras and started a underwater videography service which was quite sucessful - targeting visiting divers. Even did some work for the BBC.
Extracurricular:
Co-Director of 400 group alumni admissions council for my alma mater. Coordinate recruiting events, interview high school seniors for admission, etc.
Elected class representative, swiss boarding school. Plan reunions, events, fundrasing etc.
Event planner for an Italian Language club
Strategic Advisor to non profit school in Honduras, help fundrasing efforts.
Scuba Videographer, clients included the BBC.
Four Publishications in a magazine, circulation ~ 1.3MM
Developed independent film website in 2005, sold 12/05, ranked among 40,000 most visited sites on the net.
Older extracurriculars (pre professional life):
Guide, swiss alps. Lead students through hikes in the swiss alps.
Targets:
HBS
KGSM
CHICAGO
YALE
CORNELL
GEORGETOWN
rhyme,
I apologize for the delayed reply. You appear to have the right stuff. Georgetown, Cornell, and Yale may even be safety schools for you. Kellogg and Chicago look emininently doable for you. I woul not be surprised if HBS accepted you, and I would not bet against it.
Best of luck to you,
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Rhyme,
You have the 'right stuff'. See? I told you.
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GMAT Club Legend
Affiliations: HHonors Diamond, BGS Honor Society
Joined: 05 Apr 2006
Posts: 5924
Schools: Chicago (Booth) - Class of 2009
GMAT 1: 730 Q45 V45
WE: Business Development (Consumer Products)
Followers: 199
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Re: Eval Profile ?? [#permalink]
22 Sep 2006, 08:27
pbodine wrote:
rhyme,
I apologize for the delayed reply. You appear to have the right stuff. Georgetown, Cornell, and Yale may even be safety schools for you. Kellogg and Chicago look emininently doable for you. I woul not be surprised if HBS accepted you, and I would not bet against it.
Best of luck to you,
This just made my day. Thanks.
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Rhyme, great profile. But I don't get it - why aren't stanford and wharton in your list?
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GMAT Club Legend
Affiliations: HHonors Diamond, BGS Honor Society
Joined: 05 Apr 2006
Posts: 5924
Schools: Chicago (Booth) - Class of 2009
GMAT 1: 730 Q45 V45
WE: Business Development (Consumer Products)
Followers: 199
Kudos [?]:
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necromonger wrote: Rhyme, great profile. But I don't get it - why aren't stanford and wharton in your list?
Stanford seems like a long shot given my undergrad GPA. Frankly, I don't see that much value in Stanford over HBS or KGSM.
Wharton isn't on my list for no particular reason other than triage. I'm most interested in KGSM, HBS, CHICAGO - and then I need something down the middle in terms of likelyhood of accepts (Cornell) and what I would consider more of a backup school (Georgetown).
6 apps is a ton of work as it is. I'm only going to get HBS, KGSM, CHICAGO in for their R1s, and Cornell will have to drop to R2. Georgetown's R1 is so far out - December - that I'll make that as well, but in my mind it's part of my R2 list. Yale will end up R2.
If, once I'm in R2's, I find that I can squeeze in more than 3 more, I'll go for a fourth - but I have a feeling completing GSB, Cornell, Yale and Georgetown in time will be a significant enough effort to run me through the R2 deadlines.
As much as I'd like to apply to other schools, there is a limit to what I can complete in time - and have a quality application. If I can squeeze in another, maybe I'll go for Wharton R2, but right now, I'm more concerned about my upcoming deadlines than which schools I decide to try for in R2.
If I were to add a seventh right now, I'd probably pick Ross. Great school, good accept rates - competitive - but not so competitive that I don't stand a chance.
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