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Profile Evaluation - Prospective Fall 2017 R1 Applicant Updated on: 15 Mar 2018, 09:42
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Profile Evaluation - Prospective Fall 2017 R1 Applicant 10 Jan 2017, 13:17
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1) Basic demographic info: 30 at time of application, Female, Vietnamese-American

2) Educational Background: 3.95/4.0 BBA Accounting from top-70 private university in Texas (think Baylor, SMU), Master of Taxation (from same university), expected 720 GMAT
I think your high GPA will be helpful! Don't worry about the school. Sounds like it is good enough and M7 like to take some people who did well in non-Ivy's and you did well. And the 720 GMAT great too.
3) Work experience:
I currently work in Corporate Taxation at a major US airline company as a Tax Accountant. I was promoted from an Associate Role to an Accountant role after just one year, and at time of application I will have been working here for two and a half years total. Prior to this job, I worked at PwC in a major city, in Tax for four and a half years, was early-promoted to Senior Associate, and left as a Senior Associate. During my time as Senior at PwC, I led 5-6 teams of 2-3 associates below me on client projects. I will have been in the workforce for a little over 7 years at time of application. I am an individual contributor in my current role and am not managing anyone below - although I have been the official mentor and unofficial manager to three department interns over three different semesters during my tenure here (I assigned/reviewed their work and wrote their reviews).excellent work!

4) Extracurriculars: In college I participated in marching band all four years, was the leader of a volunteer income tax workstation for low-income individuals and also spearheaded a new program aimed at assisting international students with filing income taxes. My post-grad activities are quite lackluster. Mind you, it'll have been seven years since undergrad. I am involved in some women's groups in my current city but not in a leadership capacity for what will be a year and a half at time of application. Hoping to beef up my application in this area and get involved with perhaps more Asian-American organizations in my city. I'm concerned that a sudden uptick in participation will be a red-flag to AdComs nine months out, but something is better than nothing. Advice on strengthening this area would be much appreciated. Work on this now! if you do some good work in next 6 mos it can really help.

5) Short/Long term goals: Switch from role in accounting into management consulting and eventually transition into corporate development with focus on transportation, travel and tourism. This makes sense to me given my current work in the airline industry. I'm trying to move out of tax/accounting and avoid getting pidgeon-holed here.

6) Schools: M7 is my goal but am not sure if my accounting background from tier two school, and lack of EC/Leadership serves as a handicap.

Any advice you guys can provide would be great! Not sure if I'm aiming too high here (ironically self-deprecating given my username) so just curious if I should lower my expectations with my M7 goal... So I think you are wise to think about this now- and I think that you could benefit from the help of a firm like ours to put together the most compelling applications for M7. I see no reason if you have a strong application that you can't present really well. And if you gear up to start in May- you can hit those early R1 deadlines in the fall - which are your best shot. Here is a link to our website where you can get a free consult and also learn more about how we could help and get 5% off any services.

https://stratusprep.com/admissions/busi ... b-visitor/

Regardless good luck! And it is great that you are thinking about this now!



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