Program: MBA-FT
Area of interest in MBA: Finance - Strategic Management - Entrepreneurship
GMAT: 760, Q49/V44, AWA 5.5
TOEFL iBT: 109 (R29 L27 W27 S26)
IELTS: 7.5 (W7 S7 R8 L8)
GPA: 7.04 / 10, Top 17% from a Top 3 engineering school
Work experience(WE): 7 years in investment banking from M&A to Sales and Trading (last)
Fast Progress. I've been managing teams, small ones though, for the last 4 years and living abroad for the last 2.5 years
Nationality: Brazilian
Age: 30 at Matriculation
Gender: Male
Extra-curricular/community: Political Involvement (tough issue to explore), Leo Club (from Lions Club) during high-school and college, studied classical music for 9 years and extensive traveling.
Schools applied to (in order of application):
School 1: Chicago GSB R1 - FT
Status:
Matriculating, Accepted - 12/18/2007, Interviewed 11/16/2007, Submitted 10/16/2007
School 2: MIT R1 - FT
Status:
Accepted 01/28/2008, Interviewed 01/09/2008, Submitted 10/27/2007
School 3: Columbia RD - FT
Status:
Dinged 02/19/2008, Interviewed 02/07/2008 - Submitted 12/04/2007
School 4: Wharton R2 - FT
Status:
DroppedSchool 5: Stanford R2 - FT
Status:
Dinged 04/03/2008, Submitted 01/06/2008