Tacobellvampire wrote:
Nationality: American
Age: 23
GMAT: Yet to come (Targeting 700)
GPA (American 4.0 scale): 3.5 Cumulative, 3.7 in Russian Major alone (if it matters)
Education:
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Graduating Spring 2021)
Major: Russian Language
Minor: Economics- Managerial Economics Concentration
Internship Experience:
a.) Summer 2019 - Summer Analyst at Boutique Hedge Fund in NYC (3 months)
b.) Summer 2020 - Stay at home internship. Made competitive landscape analysis for UK based private lender (1 Month)
c.)I am applying for summer 2021 finance/consulting internships
Extracurricular:
Investment Club
Finance Society
Certifications:
B1 Russian Language Proficiency
Masters Program(s) you are applying to?
I am applying for programs which begin in Fall 2021. I am looking at top 20 European masters in management or finance but I am strongly leaning towards management. My dream would be International Management or Finance at LSE. Other programs I have strong interest in are Bocconi, St. Gallen and ICL but I would love feedback on realistic targets. I plan to apply 2nd round because I heard this is the best time to apply.
Post-Masters Goals:
When I began University, I wanted to work for the American State Department or Foreign Service in Eastern Europe, thus I chose to study Russian. Two years into University I took a 1 year break and studied intensive Russian in St. Petersburg and received B1 status in Russian language. When I returned to the states, I transferred to UMass. I decided I wanted to work in business. I would like to work in Management Consulting in Russia and other eastern European countries. Please let me know what you think of my profile!
Hey
Tacobellvampire,
You have a strong profile.
Academically a GMAT score of 700 would definitely work in your favor and you can apply to most of the top colleges. Speaking of your Undergraduate your GPA is great and showcases your academic prowess. While your grades do play an important part, your extracurricular activities and your other endeavors matter as well because AdComs are looking for applicants with holistically developed profiles.
For your extracurricular activities, the schools are looking for applicants with a holistically developed profile, who have taken initiative and created quantifiable impacts. So talking about what you did in your roles at the investment club and the finance club, how you handled problems, planned the events, raised funds and created impacts would help make your application better. You should dig deeper into this aspect and bring out varied skills in your profile.
As far as your work experience goes, you should explain and highlight more on major projects of your work and how these experiences helped to develop and further groom your skills and knowledge. Since you lack big brands in your work experience, you can compensate for it by highlighting why you chose these firms, how you have gone beyond the role, any initiatives you took and any kind of impact created to showcase your profile better. And since you are planning to apply for summer internships, definitely try to get a role with a big brand to add more weightage to your profile.
As you are targeting top schools for M.Sc. In Finance or MIM out of the schools that you have shortlisted, LSE, St. Gallen and Imperial fall under the dream category, while Bocconi falls under the competitive category.
Dream schools have a very stringent acceptance rate of 12-15%, while competitive schools have an acceptance rate of 60-70%. Hence, it is always better to target a mix of dream, competitive and safe schools.To help you understand better below is the category wise school list:
Dream : LBS , INSEAD, LSE, St. Gallen and Imperial
Competitive : ESCP, ESSEC, IE, FSFM , EDHEC
Safe : University of Bath, Lancaster University
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