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Admissionado!
Please evaluate my profile.
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Profile:
29/M/South Asian (Not Indian)
Work Experience: 6 years (2 years in family business, and 4 years in finance in NYC)
1. Family Business (Three separate businesses- finance/brokerage, advertisement/media buying and real estate): Moved to my home country to help the struggling family business. Turned one of the three business profitable in a year, and the other two are on course to be profitable within 10-12 months.
2. 4 years in a financial information firm (clients include several well-known hedge funds) in New York. Started as a junior analyst, managed a team of analysts by the time I left.
Other Experience: Founded a startup on the side while working in NY. It eventually failed.
GRE: 328 (166Q, 162V)
Academics:
Double major in Economics and English (Creative Writing Track)
3.5 GPA from a decent liberal arts college. (Did a study abroad program at St. Peters' College, University of Oxford focusing on Renaissance studies)
Extracurricular/Community:
1. Mentor at a school for underprivileged kids.
2. Volunteer at local organization. I’ve created and supervised a couple of projects for the organization.
3. Member of a nationally well-known young entrepreneurs’ society
4. Fiction writing
Target: Judge (Cambridge), LBS, Said (Oxford), IMD, INSEAD, and HEC.
Focus: Entrepreneurship
Round: Judge and Said R4/5 for Sep 15 Intake; IMD and INSEAD R2 for Jan 16 Intake.
Post MBA-Goals: Start a company or continue working in and building the family business, bringing in new ideas from my MBA experience.