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Concentration: Finance, Strategy
GPA: 3.73
Good GMAT & GPA, but short work history?
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08 Sep 2013, 04:08
Hi All,
I just completed my GMAT (and I was quite shocked to see my results, gave me lots of confidence to apply for Fall'14 intake). I understand that my GPA/GMAT score is quite competitive for my dream school, but what I'm worried about is the short length of my work exp & lack of EC/leadership experience (and maybe young age). Comments would be greatly appreciated.
So here goes my profile:
Undergrad: UCLA, BS Chemical Engineering, 3.73
GMAT: 770 (Q:50/V:46) AWA and IR pending
Work History: 1 year 3 months as associate in US environmental consulting firm based in Los Angeles. Currently 9 months into an analyst position (doing asset management) at a top 3 European private bank based in Hong Kong (not my home country). Total FT work exp would be just shy of 3 years at matriculation
EC: 1 quarter as student tutor in uni, 1 quarter as grader/assistant TA in uni for engineering finance class, 1 quarter research assistant in a lab in uni. Pretty non-existent post uni other than helping out my local church.
Leadership: pretty non-existent?
Short-term post-MBA goal: Consulting/PE
Long-term post-MBA goal: Help continue with family business
Misc: 24yo at matriculation, male, Asian (non-Chinese/non-Indian), non-native English speaker (fluent in my native language of course), lived in 5 different metropolitan cities so far in life.
Dream school: Stanford
Other schools I'm thinking of: Harvard/Wharton/Kellogg/Haas/Yale
Safety: UCLA (if I can consider this as safety since I did my undergrad there)
Any other school I should consider?
Thinking of applying for R2. Possibly R1 for Haas/Anderson as there is still 1 month until their R1 deadline.
Thanks for your thoughts.
mukakucing