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Iceman2016
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Concentration: Finance
Schools: IESE '22 (S) LBS '22 (S)
GMAT 1: 670 Q46 V37
GMAT 2: 690 Q49 V35
WE:Sales (Real Estate)
21 Oct 2014, 18:51
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Hi Everyone,
This is for application to MBA programs in fall 2016. I’m trying to understand my weaknesses so that I can plan the year ahead.
I'm an Indian national living and working in NY. Below is a high level overview of my background. I understand that my chances are depended on good execution but at a high level I want to gauge where I stand based on everyone’s understanding.
Please note that even though I graduated from an engineering background my experience since graduating from grad school has been in non-technical consulting roles. I was an engineer by accident. While I say this, please note that I have some financial technical knowledge from course work/auditing of classes in graduate school. I have also developed deep capital markets and financial regulatory understanding from my job responsibilities since they have all been focused towards the same industry.
Undergrad: Computer Engineering, University of Pune (54%), Class Highest: 73%)
Grad Program: Master in IS from NYU (Joint program between Math and Stern Business school: GPA 3.56). Course work focused on Finance including corporate finance and capital markets.
Work Experience:
FYI, I went to grad school straight after undergrad.
Starting working with a big 4 firm in the advisory practice focused on high pressured regulatory risk projects. Moved to a competitor firm and promoted to Senior Associate. The group was new and expanded from 5 to 150 people in a year (senior management team moved from my old to new firm and gave me the opportunity to join them in the new venture, hence had lots of responsibility outside of my projects(recruiting campus hires, experience professionals, etc)). Received top performer rating at both places
After 1 year at both firms moved to a role with a Tier 1 bank (Goldman, Morgan, JP) in the Wealth Management group and have been working there since the past summer. (Will have 2 years with the firm by the time I enter business school)
Summary, total experience when I enter business school: 4 years (1+1+2)
Leadership during professional career:
Managed large project teams during my experience with the big 4 (7-18 team members in difference projects across multiple countries (London, Singapore and Hong Kong)). Delivered client presentations to regional and global heads of business. All my work dealt with extreme regulatory fines and clients in extreme trouble, hence requiring 100 hours/week for both years.
I now work within the bank in a fast paced market oriented role. Scope of the projects involves global interaction with various functional and regional teams (most people I work with everyday are based out of NYC, London, India, Singapore and Hong Kong)
References: 1 from 2nd Big 4 firm and 1 from current manager (should be very good references)
GMAT: 670 (q:46, v:37)
I know I bombed the quant but studying again and will retake the test in 2 months. For now want to understand the implications if score doesn't improve
Extra-Curricular:
Working with a children’s nonprofit to design their curriculum for about 3 years. The curriculum is focused on helping provide under privileged children with an education so that they may attain sufficient knowledge to effectively succeed academically when they join public schools.
Captain of college basketball team for 2 years and helped organize the first sports festival in the college’s history
Cultural and technical events co-lead coordinator
Led the school specific recruitment team to hire undergraduate and graduate students from NYU during my time with the big 4.
Short term career goal:
Leveraging past experience and transitioning to a role in Investment Banking. An MBA will help me gain the technical skills that I don’t have. It will also help me cross the Chinese wall within banks (corssing from public side (market trading)to private side (deal making) and also help move from middle office to front client facing role
Long term career goal:
Internal Transaction & Execution group in a fortune 500 firm
Target schools: I have already visited information sessions for some school and reached out/spoken to some alumni. I have an affair understand of the pros and cons of each school. Will be visiting each school over the next year and hope to apply round 1 to the following schools. I’m not looking to stay in a big city (ps: I loved the Georgetown campus). Also, im not sure about my how I would stand at Columbia
• Yale School of Management
• Duke University: Fuqua
• Dartmouth College: Tuck
• University of Michigan: Ross
• Cornell University: Johnson
• Georgetown: McDonough
This is for application to MBA programs in fall 2016. I’m trying to understand my weaknesses so that I can plan the year ahead.
I'm an Indian national living and working in NY. Below is a high level overview of my background. I understand that my chances are depended on good execution but at a high level I want to gauge where I stand based on everyone’s understanding.
Please note that even though I graduated from an engineering background my experience since graduating from grad school has been in non-technical consulting roles. I was an engineer by accident. While I say this, please note that I have some financial technical knowledge from course work/auditing of classes in graduate school. I have also developed deep capital markets and financial regulatory understanding from my job responsibilities since they have all been focused towards the same industry.
Undergrad: Computer Engineering, University of Pune (54%), Class Highest: 73%)
Grad Program: Master in IS from NYU (Joint program between Math and Stern Business school: GPA 3.56). Course work focused on Finance including corporate finance and capital markets.
Work Experience:
FYI, I went to grad school straight after undergrad.
Starting working with a big 4 firm in the advisory practice focused on high pressured regulatory risk projects. Moved to a competitor firm and promoted to Senior Associate. The group was new and expanded from 5 to 150 people in a year (senior management team moved from my old to new firm and gave me the opportunity to join them in the new venture, hence had lots of responsibility outside of my projects(recruiting campus hires, experience professionals, etc)). Received top performer rating at both places
After 1 year at both firms moved to a role with a Tier 1 bank (Goldman, Morgan, JP) in the Wealth Management group and have been working there since the past summer. (Will have 2 years with the firm by the time I enter business school)
Summary, total experience when I enter business school: 4 years (1+1+2)
Leadership during professional career:
Managed large project teams during my experience with the big 4 (7-18 team members in difference projects across multiple countries (London, Singapore and Hong Kong)). Delivered client presentations to regional and global heads of business. All my work dealt with extreme regulatory fines and clients in extreme trouble, hence requiring 100 hours/week for both years.
I now work within the bank in a fast paced market oriented role. Scope of the projects involves global interaction with various functional and regional teams (most people I work with everyday are based out of NYC, London, India, Singapore and Hong Kong)
References: 1 from 2nd Big 4 firm and 1 from current manager (should be very good references)
GMAT: 670 (q:46, v:37)
I know I bombed the quant but studying again and will retake the test in 2 months. For now want to understand the implications if score doesn't improve
Extra-Curricular:
Working with a children’s nonprofit to design their curriculum for about 3 years. The curriculum is focused on helping provide under privileged children with an education so that they may attain sufficient knowledge to effectively succeed academically when they join public schools.
Captain of college basketball team for 2 years and helped organize the first sports festival in the college’s history
Cultural and technical events co-lead coordinator
Led the school specific recruitment team to hire undergraduate and graduate students from NYU during my time with the big 4.
Short term career goal:
Leveraging past experience and transitioning to a role in Investment Banking. An MBA will help me gain the technical skills that I don’t have. It will also help me cross the Chinese wall within banks (corssing from public side (market trading)to private side (deal making) and also help move from middle office to front client facing role
Long term career goal:
Internal Transaction & Execution group in a fortune 500 firm
Target schools: I have already visited information sessions for some school and reached out/spoken to some alumni. I have an affair understand of the pros and cons of each school. Will be visiting each school over the next year and hope to apply round 1 to the following schools. I’m not looking to stay in a big city (ps: I loved the Georgetown campus). Also, im not sure about my how I would stand at Columbia
• Yale School of Management
• Duke University: Fuqua
• Dartmouth College: Tuck
• University of Michigan: Ross
• Cornell University: Johnson
• Georgetown: McDonough
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21 Oct 2014, 19:02
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Thanks for the detail. These are all reasonable schools based on your background, but definitely study to improve the GMAT. You could go for Columbia as well based on work experience, but I'd want to see a higher GMAT to offset undergrad. Don't forget to prioritize apps when it comes time. I've seen too many people who work those hours not spend enough time on the apps. Start early with a great strategic plan if your schedule is demanding. Reach out with any other questions or for help with the apps.
Depending on your GMAT, you could throw in another reach school also.
-Scott Edinburgh
Depending on your GMAT, you could throw in another reach school also.
-Scott Edinburgh
22 Oct 2014, 02:24
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YashThakar
I like your profile dude!
What I like most is that if we look at your initial academics, we don't necessarily see anything that will show promise of the success you have had, but you have had that success anyways! And I think that's really impressive. To come from an Indian non-Top school with so-so grades and in IT to boot! And then to land a great job in a bulge bracket bank, with all your experience gathered and achievements along the way!
It's not only a good FACT, but it also will make for a great STORY, which you can use in your application.
The ooooonly thing (tell me you knew this was coming) is that if I were on the Adcom I'd be telling myself "This guy is interesting, he's done so well despite his studies... he has a great story... I really want to accept him... buuuuut I got this nagging doubt... why can't he do better academically?? I mean, if he only blew away the GMAT, then I would be sure that he would be great at our school..."
Get my drift??
Good luck on your retake, dude,
And if there's anything else, anything at all, just drop a line...
