[quote="luvon"]Background:
Chinese Canadian, fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Canada and worked in Hong Kong post graduation.
Academics:Top Canadian university in Accounting - A- average with strong grades in quantitative courses
Certified American CPA Washington State
GMAT 720 - Quant 50, Verbal 36, full grades in essay writing
Extracurricular:- VP positions in Case competition club, tennis club, and mentoring club
- President position in mentoring club for one year, where I organize mentorship session and class tutorial sessions serving over 200 students
Professional Background:PwC Consulting - Forensics and Compliance
- Worked for 4 years
- Project experiences in 6 different countries working with more than 10 different nationality colleagues/clients
- Experience with multinational listed clients
- Fraud investigation experience, internal audit experience, and compliance consulting experience
- Achieved second highest performance rating - high performer, with strong praises in leadership/teamwork/communication capabilities
Outside of work:Pioneered the mentoring program of my university alumni, where fresh grads are matched with industry professionals for experience sharing
- Organized networking events
- Organized dialogue sessions where alumni actively involve in discussions on a topic
Former competitive tennis player with top 10 ranking in province. Also a certified tennis instructor with coaching experience in Canada.
PwC Tennis Team
- Organizing committee for PwC tennnis team, where we won in our draw every year since I joined.
Target schools:INSEAD
Wharton
HKUST
Booth
Harvard
Post MBA Goals:Strategy consulting, PE/VC
Appreciate any feedback, thank you![/quote
Hey dude,
I hope you are good.
So from the get-go things looks pretty all right. You are Canadian (I presume) have a nice GMAT, good grades, a very good job in a very well-known firm. Plus a bit of leadership on the side too. All looks good and I don't see from here any major weaknesses.
At the same time, at the level that you are applying too, things can get tough. There are a LOT of Big4 applicants in the Top five schools. I think you could add 1-2 more somewhat lower ranked schools in the US, because I think your choices there are all tough. But you should be quite competitve at INSEAD and HKUST.
As far as your goals, I think you should drop the PE stuff, and stick to consulting. Too many people want to move into PE, and there aren't that many jobs. ACtually, since you have done something pretty unique at PWC, I think you should try and build on that to find some goals for you. Maybe there's some sort of fraud consulting job? Or even a government instutiton or global financial institution which would allow you to make best use of your knowledge and experience.Otherwise things look good.
I hope this helps, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate.
Best,
JF