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jmikery
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Concentration: Finance
Schools: Anderson '19 (A$) Wharton '19 (D) Kellogg '19 (A) HBS '19 (D) Booth '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Duke '19 (WL)
GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V41
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Schools: Anderson '19 (A$) Wharton '19 (D) Kellogg '19 (A) HBS '19 (D) Booth '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Duke '19 (WL)
GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V41
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20 Nov 2015, 02:58
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Hi,
Looking for feedback on what schools are realistic for my profile which is as follows:
GMAT: 760 Q51 V41 IR8, no AWA yet
Age: Currently 25, will apply Round 1 2016, will be 27 by the start of the MBA program
School: Top 3 school in the Philippines, BS in Business Management, minor in Finance
Leadership: Course representative for my course, which has the largest population among all the courses in my school, Finance Head for the School of Management Night (celebration event), where we raised funds for the school scholarship fund
GPA: 3.06, top 20% of my class (of a particular concern to me because of the different grading system locally vs. in the US while using the same 4 pt scale)
Work Experience: 2.5 years in a mid sized local bank, first as a management trainee and then as a Corporate Banking Account Officer. Finished top of my management trainee class and was promoted after my first full year of service in a Corporate Banking position. In January 2014, I moved to a boutique M&A advisory firm as an Associate.
Extracurriculars: Nothing really outside of CFA. I have been tapped by one of my superiors at work to help out in the next edition of Collegiate Finance Competition run by the Finance Executives Association of the Philippines. Now that I don't have the GMAT to worry about, I'm also looking into writing part time about local sports.
Other: I've passed level 1 and 2 of the CFA exams and am enrolled in Level 3 for the June 2016 test. Will hopefully have the 3rd exam passed by applications next year. I plan on centering my application around my work experience as an investment banker in a developing country (we work with mid market firms that big investment houses don't typically pay attention to but have the most need for capital). My short term goal is to get into PE or Consulting with the long term goal behind it being to get experience with best practices at top firms in order to bring back that knowledge to businesses in the Philippines, whether through consulting, investing, or entrepreneurship.
Looking for feedback on what schools are realistic for my profile which is as follows:
GMAT: 760 Q51 V41 IR8, no AWA yet
Age: Currently 25, will apply Round 1 2016, will be 27 by the start of the MBA program
School: Top 3 school in the Philippines, BS in Business Management, minor in Finance
Leadership: Course representative for my course, which has the largest population among all the courses in my school, Finance Head for the School of Management Night (celebration event), where we raised funds for the school scholarship fund
GPA: 3.06, top 20% of my class (of a particular concern to me because of the different grading system locally vs. in the US while using the same 4 pt scale)
Work Experience: 2.5 years in a mid sized local bank, first as a management trainee and then as a Corporate Banking Account Officer. Finished top of my management trainee class and was promoted after my first full year of service in a Corporate Banking position. In January 2014, I moved to a boutique M&A advisory firm as an Associate.
Extracurriculars: Nothing really outside of CFA. I have been tapped by one of my superiors at work to help out in the next edition of Collegiate Finance Competition run by the Finance Executives Association of the Philippines. Now that I don't have the GMAT to worry about, I'm also looking into writing part time about local sports.
Other: I've passed level 1 and 2 of the CFA exams and am enrolled in Level 3 for the June 2016 test. Will hopefully have the 3rd exam passed by applications next year. I plan on centering my application around my work experience as an investment banker in a developing country (we work with mid market firms that big investment houses don't typically pay attention to but have the most need for capital). My short term goal is to get into PE or Consulting with the long term goal behind it being to get experience with best practices at top firms in order to bring back that knowledge to businesses in the Philippines, whether through consulting, investing, or entrepreneurship.
23 Nov 2015, 11:29
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Thanks for sharing your profile you have a really nice background that should have you pretty competitive at top MBA programs. Your strong work experience and GMAT scores are the highlights of your application with your ECs being one of the shortfalls. On the GPA side admissions should be aware of the difference in scales with schools in the Philippines so don't feel like you will be too discounted in the process but again I doubt this will be seen as an area of strength for you. Your GMAT should not make this a concern for you.
jmikery
Joined: 09 Nov 2014
Last visit: 13 May 2020
Posts: 50
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Concentration: Finance
Schools: Anderson '19 (A$) Wharton '19 (D) Kellogg '19 (A) HBS '19 (D) Booth '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Duke '19 (WL)
GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V41
Products:
Schools: Anderson '19 (A$) Wharton '19 (D) Kellogg '19 (A) HBS '19 (D) Booth '19 (D) CBS '19 (D) Duke '19 (WL)
GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V41
Posts: 50
Kudos:
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30 Nov 2015, 06:48
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Would you know what schools in the top 15 are ideal to target with my profile with the goal of maximizing scholarship chances? For example, I was considering Columbia but I might swap it with Booth because comments seem to say Booth is more generous with scholarship money
