Esuric wrote:
Hi, and thanks in advance!
Gmat
690 (42Q 42V)
87th percentile
Still waiting for AWA and IR scores
Academics
Overall GPA: 3.93
Major GPA: 4.0
Graduated with a B.S. in Business Economics from Hofstra University in 2010
Have two outstanding academic letters of recommendation, one from the chairman of Hofstra's economics deparment
Achievements/proficiencies/extra-curricular
Provost's list two semesters (Dean's list every other semester)
Graduated summa cum laude
Fluent in Serbo-Croatian
Chairman of Hofstra's economics club where I helped organize several guest lectures and policy debates
Professional experience
Work two part-time jobs
No relevant full-time work experience
Goal: Earn an MBA in finance from a top 20 institution and find employment in business valuations, risk management or financial management. Ultimate goal is to own my own hedge fund.
Target Programs:
Yale
Cornell
Duke
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Virginia
Oxford
INSEAD
[I plan to apply as soon as I get a sense of the relative strength of my application]
While your academic stats are excellent, I think you would have a slim chance of acceptance without a full-time job for at least part of the period since your graduated from Hofstra. Unless there is a
really good reason for you having two part-time jobs, I'm pessimistic.
Would you consider trying to find a full-time job and then applying perhaps in the fall of 2014?