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20 Sep 2007, 11:00
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Could you please let me know which colleges I should be applying to?
GMAT: 640 (Quant:42, Verbal:35, AWA: yet to receive official score) I will try again because I think I can get over a 650.
Undergrad: University of San Diego gpa 2.95- computer science.
I am 27.
I have not taken the normal work route and hopefully that makes me unique and will outweigh my gpa and gmat shortcomings.
I have been a professional equity day trader for the past 4 years. During my junior summer in college I had a good internship experience in New York at a large investment bank on their trade floor, but because I graduated college in 2002, the banks were cost cutting and had a hiring freeze, and I was not extended an offer.
Instead, I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a professional
trader and stay in san diego. I found a trading office that provided trading software and high speed connections to the various exchanges and joined the trading group. I funded myself in the beginning with a small amount of capital and continue to trade my own capital today. These past four year I have surpassed my yearly profit goals consistently. Even though I traded for myself (self employed) I have had managerial experiences. I managed trade floor operations and I was in charge of IT for two and half years at the company. I did this while I was trading my own account.
Last year I decided to concentrate on my trading goals, left the office and quit my responsibilities there and moved to a home office and it worked. I had great success trading last year. At the beginning of this year, I moved to New York City to work for a small automated trading company to start/head their foreign exchange trading division.
Throughout college and the 4 years after when I was trading, I also ran a small IT consulting business. I built this from the ground up and had around 100 at-home clients and a couple small businesses.
I have actually been my own boss and have never had to work for anyone, except for my internship at the bank. Even though I was working for my trading company, the two partners considered me integral to the company and actually offered me a partnership deal, which I declined and instead moved home and focused on trading.
The reason I would like to go to business school is transition from
trading into venture capital. I am actually kinda burnt out on trading. I have always been a true entrepreneur and an mba would give me good credibility to start a company.
Does my work experience make up for my shortcomings on gpa and gmat for me to even have a chance at ucla or usc? My fear is that if I retake the gmat and get a lower score then my chances will really be shot, but maybe not.
Colleges which I am planning to apply to:
1. UCLA
2. USC
3. Irvine
4. pepperdine (1 year program) if all else fails.
Thanks in advance,
GMAT: 640 (Quant:42, Verbal:35, AWA: yet to receive official score) I will try again because I think I can get over a 650.
Undergrad: University of San Diego gpa 2.95- computer science.
I am 27.
I have not taken the normal work route and hopefully that makes me unique and will outweigh my gpa and gmat shortcomings.
I have been a professional equity day trader for the past 4 years. During my junior summer in college I had a good internship experience in New York at a large investment bank on their trade floor, but because I graduated college in 2002, the banks were cost cutting and had a hiring freeze, and I was not extended an offer.
Instead, I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a professional
trader and stay in san diego. I found a trading office that provided trading software and high speed connections to the various exchanges and joined the trading group. I funded myself in the beginning with a small amount of capital and continue to trade my own capital today. These past four year I have surpassed my yearly profit goals consistently. Even though I traded for myself (self employed) I have had managerial experiences. I managed trade floor operations and I was in charge of IT for two and half years at the company. I did this while I was trading my own account.
Last year I decided to concentrate on my trading goals, left the office and quit my responsibilities there and moved to a home office and it worked. I had great success trading last year. At the beginning of this year, I moved to New York City to work for a small automated trading company to start/head their foreign exchange trading division.
Throughout college and the 4 years after when I was trading, I also ran a small IT consulting business. I built this from the ground up and had around 100 at-home clients and a couple small businesses.
I have actually been my own boss and have never had to work for anyone, except for my internship at the bank. Even though I was working for my trading company, the two partners considered me integral to the company and actually offered me a partnership deal, which I declined and instead moved home and focused on trading.
The reason I would like to go to business school is transition from
trading into venture capital. I am actually kinda burnt out on trading. I have always been a true entrepreneur and an mba would give me good credibility to start a company.
Does my work experience make up for my shortcomings on gpa and gmat for me to even have a chance at ucla or usc? My fear is that if I retake the gmat and get a lower score then my chances will really be shot, but maybe not.
Colleges which I am planning to apply to:
1. UCLA
2. USC
3. Irvine
4. pepperdine (1 year program) if all else fails.
Thanks in advance,
23 Sep 2007, 15:13
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Combres,
Very interesting story--you get my Unique Profile of the Day award. The successful entrepreneurship is an asset. How big an asset depends on how successful you were, which would include questions like did you have to hire staff. Because if you did you were managing, which is what makes B-schools mouths water. If it was self-employment without management, then the schools will look for leadership in extracurriculars/community, all the more so in your case because the profile of a solitary trader probably goes against their ideal of the team-oriented, community-spirited MBA. If you don't have that extracurricular/community side then you are at a distinct disadvantage as far as the top schools are concerned, and your GMAT score and GPA only add to the difficulty. So, does your unusual work experience compensate for your GPA and GMAT? Not really or not enough. I don't think UCLA is realistic. USC might be. You should get into UC Irvine and Pepperdine. Aiming for UCLA and USC's part-time programs would probably raise your admission odds.
Hope this helps.
24 Sep 2007, 07:26
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Thanks for the reply.
I see what you mean by a solitary trader working against me. This was actually only the case for last year when I decided to leave my trading office. Before that I was managing and training new traders, and now I am in a startup type trading job hiring programmers/traders etc.
As for the comm. service side. I think I have a good story for this. The small computer business that I ran myself, I also volunteered my time helping seniors at a convalescent home training them how to use their personal computers. I would make house calls and help them order a computer, install it and help them get on the internet and write email. I am a pretty patient teacher, which is probably why they really appreciated it.
It was also pretty interesting, I had one couple I helped that were in their late 80s, and the husband had been a WWII pilot over saipan. Another person I had was a 97 year old that walked 2 miles every day. All were very quick mentally and they weren't intimidated learning how to use a computer.
I am actually really shooting for USC at this point, ucla is a long shot probably. I am going to retake my gmat and try and get close to 700 which I think would really help my chances that and nail the essays.
Thanks
ch
I see what you mean by a solitary trader working against me. This was actually only the case for last year when I decided to leave my trading office. Before that I was managing and training new traders, and now I am in a startup type trading job hiring programmers/traders etc.
As for the comm. service side. I think I have a good story for this. The small computer business that I ran myself, I also volunteered my time helping seniors at a convalescent home training them how to use their personal computers. I would make house calls and help them order a computer, install it and help them get on the internet and write email. I am a pretty patient teacher, which is probably why they really appreciated it.
It was also pretty interesting, I had one couple I helped that were in their late 80s, and the husband had been a WWII pilot over saipan. Another person I had was a 97 year old that walked 2 miles every day. All were very quick mentally and they weren't intimidated learning how to use a computer.
I am actually really shooting for USC at this point, ucla is a long shot probably. I am going to retake my gmat and try and get close to 700 which I think would really help my chances that and nail the essays.
Thanks
ch
