Looking for some general advice!

Greetings! I've been a longtime lurker and have finally decided to make an account.

(Sorry for the lengthy preamble)

I'm a 22 year old 2nd year graduate student @ the Korbel School of INTS (University of Denver, top 10 ranked department, chose the school because well....my father is a tenured professor there and I had no "financial" choice :/). My undergrad degree was in international economics and the graduate degree I'm about to finish is in international finance, economics, and statistics (primarily econometrics/modeling). Finished my BA in 3 years with a 3.84 GPA cum laude and have a 3.74 MA GPA. Took the old GRE (1390, highest score on writing) and the GMAT (710). While I wasn't a b-school student, I managed to use my background in economics to persuade the b-school admins to let me take graduate level business-related classes (Business Statistics, Managerial Accounting, Managerial Finance, Financial Modeling, etc). I'm strong with Excel/PPT, proficient with SAS, STATA, SPSS, and Bloomberg.

I'm currently doing a 3 month I. banking internship in Shanghai at a mid-large sized Chinese firm (joint venture between Pinebridge investments (i.e. remnants of AIG) and a branch of Hutchison Whampoa (Lee Ka-Shing's company). Since the firm is 99% Chinese and I am basically the lone foreigner (I speak fluent Mandarin Chinese (I'm 1/2 Chinese) - i.e. NOT "I've studied mandarin for 3 years and can barely order a hamburger at Mcdonalds" Chinese) , I've been able to use my time doing modeling/research as opposed to slave work. I'm also set to do a 6 month internship at Hutchison Whampoa in their market development branch selling Western Pharma/Organic products in Mainland China and then a 3rd 3 month internship in Israel for an israeli agritech firm (wild ethnic background!). I'm making up for lost ground work experience-wise because I sacrificed my summer internship opportunities in the interest of graduating sooner.

The grand irony of the whole situation is that being forced to go to my "financially prudent" safety school has proven to be a boon when it comes to networking. I've worked at Vail Resorts (Vail Mountain) for the past 6 years as a part time private ski instructor which has let me directly network with many top level executive/partner types in the IB, PE, VC world (who else can afford to spend that much scratch). A concomitant benefit of this job is that it has also allowed me to indirectly demonstrate my professionalism/customer service/problem solving ability (you wouldn't believe what some of these people expect you to do...Take the 4 kids with their 4 nannies to pizza? Johnny can't eat meat, Cheryl is allergic to gluten? No english? no problem >_>).
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My question is as follows:
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How would you best use this bizarre combination of connections, linguistic skills (fluent Mandarin, strong Hebrew) and relatively strong academic performance (which is somewhat offset by the fact that I didn't go to a tier 1 school) to land a job in PE/VC (my main interests)?

I do plan on applying to the top tier B-schools after I work for 2-3 years, but i presume the real question concerns how do I use my somewhat unique situation to get to that point?

Additionally, do you think legacy would help at all for applying to the top tier B-schools? My father has a ba/ma/phd from columbia and was also accepted and then decided to drop out of HBS when he chose to go back to columbia to become an academic. (biggest regret of his life)