female - 26, 4 yrs experience at matriculation
gmat 710 (75% quant 92% verbal)
Finance major, real estate minor at top 40 public university, GPA 3.7, GPA for finance courses 3.83
experience
- 4 years at lobbying / public policy firm focusing on enviro policy
- advise clients in manufacturing and gas sectors (also health care and some economic development orgs)
- published article on public policy strategy
- significant public speaking, traveling the US
- started and enviro consulting practice at my firm -- ultimately failed but learned a lot and some benefits came from it
- train employees, lead teams
- interned in college at hedge fund focused on alt energy sector
ec
- standard stuff currently - junior achievement (serve as liaison for my firm), cancer society (young adult committee), active in local business professional group for networking to help firm generate business
- college: co founded a finance club, teaching assistant and created an onlilne seminar
want to do sustainability consulting post MBA, eventually start a sustainability consultancy that integrates public outreach for clients (similar to what I do now)
would also like to get thoughts on how ad comm view awards (either college or professional). I have few academic or post college awards or honors....?
targeting HBS, wharton, kellogg, booth, nyu, columbia, duke
thank you!!