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11 Aug 2010, 02:04
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Hi Linda,
could you please evaluate my profile?
Country: France.
Education
- Undergrad: BSc in IT. My school doesn't provide GPAs or percentiles, but if I convert my grades I get a 3.2.
- Grad: MSc Computer Science, converted 3.7 (1st student of my class to graduate).
- Applied for another MSc at LSE and got a merit-based scholarship (1 available, 50 students), but declined the place and accepted a job offer at a Big4.
- 2-week Summer School in Beijing on Chinese Foreign Policy.
Work experience
- 1 year in policy research projects plus some IT self-employment.
- 2 years MC at a Big4 at application time (3 at enrollment).
Leadership & Other
- Extenuating circumstance: part-time policy research support during all of my university years, I followed 1/4 of lectures. For my undergrad I had to choose whether to graduate 1 year late with a (little) higher GPA or close the undergrad on-time and focus on the grad course. I chose the second, and don't regret it.
- 6+6 months volunteer on my own (gave free lessons to students of high school and to a university student: all of them got their grades from "fail" to "pass").
- ran the publisher's fan club of a famous French singer.
- started and ran an IT-related on-line community for 3 years.
- At work I currently manage people and work with client's CFOs independently (1-2 years ahead of schedule, not officially promoted yet).
- International projects across Europe and in South America.
Other
- GMAT 770/4.0 (quant 87%, verbal 99%)
Target (with preference)
1- Joint HBS MBA / HKS MPP
2- HBS
3- Stanford
4- Columbia
Safe? (with preference)
1- MIT
2- NYU
3- LBS
4- INSEAD
Objective
Continue in MC, changing firm (top 3 strategy or maybe policy-related) and abroad for a while. School must be well known in Europe.
What do you think about that? May my profile be competitive for the target schools and to what extent is my undergrad GPA an issue (please consider I am just converting it)? I don't think I would consider schools other than those in the list above.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Rene
could you please evaluate my profile?
Country: France.
Education
- Undergrad: BSc in IT. My school doesn't provide GPAs or percentiles, but if I convert my grades I get a 3.2.
- Grad: MSc Computer Science, converted 3.7 (1st student of my class to graduate).
- Applied for another MSc at LSE and got a merit-based scholarship (1 available, 50 students), but declined the place and accepted a job offer at a Big4.
- 2-week Summer School in Beijing on Chinese Foreign Policy.
Work experience
- 1 year in policy research projects plus some IT self-employment.
- 2 years MC at a Big4 at application time (3 at enrollment).
Leadership & Other
- Extenuating circumstance: part-time policy research support during all of my university years, I followed 1/4 of lectures. For my undergrad I had to choose whether to graduate 1 year late with a (little) higher GPA or close the undergrad on-time and focus on the grad course. I chose the second, and don't regret it.
- 6+6 months volunteer on my own (gave free lessons to students of high school and to a university student: all of them got their grades from "fail" to "pass").
- ran the publisher's fan club of a famous French singer.
- started and ran an IT-related on-line community for 3 years.
- At work I currently manage people and work with client's CFOs independently (1-2 years ahead of schedule, not officially promoted yet).
- International projects across Europe and in South America.
Other
- GMAT 770/4.0 (quant 87%, verbal 99%)
Target (with preference)
1- Joint HBS MBA / HKS MPP
2- HBS
3- Stanford
4- Columbia
Safe? (with preference)
1- MIT
2- NYU
3- LBS
4- INSEAD
Objective
Continue in MC, changing firm (top 3 strategy or maybe policy-related) and abroad for a while. School must be well known in Europe.
What do you think about that? May my profile be competitive for the target schools and to what extent is my undergrad GPA an issue (please consider I am just converting it)? I don't think I would consider schools other than those in the list above.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Rene
11 Aug 2010, 21:16
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Rene
Rene,
You have a competitive profile for all your target schools and are applying appropriately given your goals and qualifications. However none of them are "safe" schools. It may just not make sense for you to have safe schools.
Regarding your undergrad GPA, given your GMAT, grad GPA, and your work schedule, I think at least one of your target schools will overlook the GPA.
With good essays, recs, and interviews, you should hear good news. FYI, we have an editor, Tanis Kmetyk, in Paris who work with many European applicants to top business schools in both Europe and the US.
Best,
Linda
