Please evaluate my chances for Stern (Finance/Banking)
24 year/Male/Indian (Grew up in Singapore)
GMAT: 750
GPA: 3.21/4.0 (With Honors) at Georgia Tech in Electrical Engineering
GPA of 4.0/4/0 for all my Calculus and Statistic courses
Work experience:
2 years of business consulting experience with a Big5 IT consulting firms (Capgemini)
Prior to that I had 2 years of business consulting at niche consulting firm
Extra Curricular:
-Entrepreneurship experience: Started a marketing firm with friends in Singapore (International experience)
-Founded an internal organization in my company for mentoring new-hires. Organization is now in excess of 60 people
-Founded organization in college to aid the international students in getting adjusted to US.
-United Nations - USA member: Participated in various forums and events around US in order to spread awareness for United Nation programs
Why Stern?
Its simply a matter of a convergence of all my interests (Interest in Quantitative analysis) a love for NY, interest in Finance/Banking
What do you think? Can I make it into Stern?
Yes, I think you can. Hopefully you have some leadership experiences at work that you can talk about. Your extracurriculars look strong. NYU does not seem to favor younger applicants (i.e., those with 1 year or less of W/E) and its middle 80% in age range is 25-30, so hopefully you will be 25 at matriculation. My point in mentioning this is that they will expect you as a modestly younger applicant to show the same impact as someone who's closer to their average. You may be able to do that based on what you gave me. At any rate, your age is not too far off their averages.
One piece of advice since you seem so set on Stern is to aggressively build a network of contacts there: students, alums, etc. Visit the campus, schmooze, get to know their program better than others so your "NYU is #1" is readily believable to the adcoms.