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Location: Brazil
WE:General Management (Energy and Utilities)
Profile review request - International Latinx student.
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18 Jan 2023, 07:39
Hello GMAT Club Community,
I am planning on applying to my target list of B-Schools Round 1 (full time programs) this year. Here is my profile:
Gender: Male
Age: 29 years
Location: Brazil
Target schools: Booth, HBS, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, McCombs, Rice,
Work experience: ~4 years
I’m currently working as financial planner for a Senior Leader (2 levels below VP) in a Major Oil & Gas Company (Chevron, Exxon etc). I currently work with the organization budget (Financial analysis, stewardship ,P&B, Benchmarking, etc) and supporting the executing organization with anything related to the rolldown of the desired strategy (I do what is needed to do) .
My background is a little bit all over the place, every year the company has stretched myself with different assignments, started my career in IT PMO (1 year), got an US expatriate assignment to work as Sales and marketing data analyst (1 year), went back to Brazil as a Data Architect / product owner (1year) and now I’m a financial planner.
Entrepreneurship -> during my Data Architect role ( 2 year ago) I opened a small business with my wife, we are a small manufacturing business that purchase raw material, produce the products and do B2B and B2C.
Education: Control System Engineering – Brazilian university ( top 35 of my country)
Did internships during 90% of my undergrad to pay my studying expenses (in Brazil you can do 4 hours internship and do classes.)
Got scholarship to study one year at California State university as a “study abroad” , since in the time I was not English fluent was really hard.
GPA: N/A - overall score about 70/100
GMAT score: Aiming for 710-730 in April/May. (Currently mock: 630)
Post MBA: Aiming for Investing Banking as Plan A or Consulting in Big 3 for Plan B.
Started to learn music 3 year ago (during my expat), today I enjoy practice and play piano and banjo.
Can you please let me know how competitive is my candidacy for the target schools? In other words which of these schools would be reachable/safe?
Thanks in advance!