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GPA, GMAT and MMS are solid. Even with poli sci as your major, you should be just fine on those criteria :P May want to consider more numerical data points for your most recent gig, if you can.
For a boutique MM, and unpaid at that, you'd be solid, dude.
Best of luck!
Nice resume, could use some legit finance experience but you already know that.
If you went to a top 5 target and graduated with a 3.8+, you're wasting your time at Duke MMS. It won't give you anything you can't get already.
I'd like to respectfully disagree - it should be apparent from my resume that the paths I chose during undergrad were not in any way conducive to careers in finance. This isn't something that I can talk my way out of during an interview, and saying that I've read Rosenbaum and Pearl's book is not going to go the distance without hard evidence of my abilities (for example, good grades in the MMS courses).
I want to live and work in the southeast, and my school doesn't have a whole lot of reach down that way, making it difficult to network with alumni. The MMS program is not only going to give me an additional shot at OCR, but will open up a fairly large network of Fuqua and Duke alums in that geographic region.
Anyway, thanks for the comments folks, and SEC, I will hit you back with an updated version if you don't mind helping out.
Just put "Month 2011" underneath your UG location. Same with Duke - put "Expected Month 2013".
Your bullets are too wordy and need more action - "Analyzed" not "performed analysis", "Led team", "Presented", etc.
Take out frequently in your first phil chair bullet
That second phil chair bullet needs to be way tighter. Take out most of the example organizations and sum up what you did better.
Reword your third bullet.
"Conversational Proficiency in Russian"
Also, on the language bit - it looks like you may be from outside the US originally? Might want to throw in your English skills if so.
Interests - tighten that up. It should be Poker, Cards (specify games). Need some other stuff here too.
You've clearly read M&I - focus on making your bullet points much more quantitative. I'd also get rid of some of your programming languages TBH.
Do this stuff, come back with an updated version and I'll be able to give you some more specific help. There's just a lot that needs to be done TBH.
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