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Please Evaluate my Profile 27 Oct 2010, 15:57
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1) Basic demographic info: 30, Male, Chinese American

2) Educational Background: GMAT: 710 Q48 V40 Undergrad: 3.3 GPA with a strong upward swing in the last 2 years, Business Administration, MIS Degree

3) Work experience: Worked for 7+ years, currently for a boutique management consulting firm in the telecom industry, previously at another boutique management consulting firm helping launch the first two retail stores for a global software giant. before that, had a progressive 5 year career at one of the big 4 firms. one caveat is that i've been laid off twice in two years, but received an offer shortly after being laid off with an increase in pay and responsibility.

4) Extracurriculars: heavy involvement at my local church, spending up to 20 hours/week helping senior leadership plan out events and studies, introducing new changes, influencing culture, and mentoring young adults.

5) Short/Long term goals: career switcher, moving from consulting to finance. short term goal is to move into corporate development, performing due diligence on target companies for a large corporation, hopefully in some consumer goods space. long term is to continue in that path, but move towards an international focus, how to penetrate markets with current goods offered, as well as introducing the US to goods only offered abroad.

6) Schools: Berkeley is far and away my #1 choice. also considering applying UCLA, Texas, Duke, and UW. Potentially NYU, Kellogg, Darden.

Can you guys let me know what you think of my profile?
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Please Evaluate my Profile 27 Oct 2010, 16:17
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I think that you should have a shot in your listed schools. Your age, as you know, would play a "not-so-beneficial" role, but it's not hard to overcome it with the right reasons. The only thing that you should be concerned about is not sounding too run of the mill. If you're able to demonstrate the leadership and ability to switch from consulting to finance, you should have a shot in those schools. Depending on what type of finance (corporate finance being less rigorous, hour-wise, than S&T analysts), you're going to have to convince adcoms that you'll be able to do the hours. If I were you, I'd also consider Wharton, where the average age is a bit higher and great for finance. Chicago Booth is another one that comes to mind.
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Please Evaluate my Profile 27 Oct 2010, 16:21
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Agree with bakfed....all your schools are within reach.