Hi everyone,

I am planning to do my masters in finance after a year. I am in my last year of college (majoring in accounts) and since i do not have any internship experience, I have decided to take a gap year. Can someone please advise the nature of work experience that'll be valued by top European schools (esp. HEC) offering pre-experience Msc. Finance ?

MFinAspirant

I advise you take a look at how several profiles were evaluated in the this link. I guess that will give you a better idea.

Also, try posting here https://gmatclub.com/forum/hec-paris-fa ... 82367.html
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Hi, most of the MS programmes don't require experience. If you have a relevant experience it will be added advantage to your profile. At the same please look into some volunteer experiences also. It will boost to profile.

workout

Thank you for the guidance. I'm new to this site so still navigating my way through.

akurathi12

As I don't have any internship experience throughout my under-graduation (was doing a professional course alongside) so I think that maybe some work exp. will improve my competitiveness. Thanks for the advice on volunteering, will keep it in mind

Hi.

I can potentially offer some advice here, I was provisionally admitted to the MIF.

I had an internship at a big Investment Bank in the UK (think GS, MS, JPM), as a Corporate Analyst - this has done me well in all applications as experience and a topic of conversation, and HEC did ask numerous questions about it. I also had a couple of months as a teaching assistant in Statistics and Probability for first and second year students at my university. Finally, had a couple of years as a part-time database administrator (excel guy, basically) in a couple of local companies.

Hope that helps!

connold9

Thank you so much for your input, very helpful !!

No problem! Should have made clear also that I'm in my final year of University, so no full-time post-college experience at all. That hasn't affected my applications one bit.

Good luck

Hi,

I just got rejected from Round 2 HEC Paris MIF and was trying to find a weak spot so I can improve for further applications. Some background on me:

GMAT: 740 (Q49,V41)
GPA: 3.8 /4.0
Undergraduate University: An average university in the US (not a target for IB recruiting)
Internship Experience: 2 years including IB, Valuation, Risk, etc ; Most notable company is a BIG 4
Full-time experience: Null as I am still in my last semester at undergrad
I really enjoyed writing my essays and thought they were decent.

Did not having any full-time experience cost me the application? Any help on identifying weak spots would be helpful.