LSE/LBS/Oxford/HEC - Profile Evaluation - MSc Finance

Hello Everyone!

I have yesterday submitted my applications for the following programs:

  • LBS: MFA
  • LSE: MSc Finance (Full Time)
  • HEC: MSc International Finance
  • Oxford: MSc Financial Economics

Can someone tell me what are my chances to enter in one of these programs bPLEASE[/b]? :please :please GMAT SCORE: 700 (V36; Q49; IR8; AWA6) Nationality: Portuguese

My Academic Profile:

One of the Top 2 Business Universities in Portugal Degree in Economics (Bachelor degree taught in English) • Best final score (17.32/20) of the 2019 International Undergraduate Program • Awarded a Católica Top+ Scholarship (granted to students with an outstanding academic record)

Bocconi Exchange Semester • Relevant Coursework: Public Finance (score 30/30), Corporate Valuation (29/30), Introduction to Options and Futures (29/30) • Successfully completed a 40-hour introductory and a 30-hour intermediary Italian language course

London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom Summer School, FM250 Finance

My Work Experience

Conglomerate in 18 countries with over 1B revenues (FAMILY Business) Finance Internship • Acquired a sound understanding of how a finance division operates through working on a business process mapping project. • Contributed to company cost savings through analyzing the efficiency of processes in the finance department and making recommendations to optimize those processes, e.g. increased data entry efficiency by 30% through automation of the process

One of the Top 2 Business Universities in Portugal Teaching Assistant, Finance I • Delivering weekly practical classes in English to groups of 30 to 60 undergraduates (2nd year)

BNP Paribas, Lisbon, Portugal International Banking Group Spring Internship

Big 4 Accounting Firm Summer Internship

Other Activities:

CFA Level I Candidate (June 2020) • Head of Portfolio Management Division at the University Finance Club: leading a team that performs stock analysis and makes investment decisions with club funds • Consultant at the University Consulting Club: provided strategic advice and developed a business plan to an online newspaper business so as to increase its value generation • Football player in the highest-level Portuguese college league • Volunteer at the primary school in the summer of 2018, teaching Mathematics, Portuguese and Social Studies • Manager (since 2014) of a 5-figure personal portfolio that has yielded between 10-20 YoY • Advanced user skills in Excel, Word, PPT, Visio, Thomson Reuters-Eikon & Bloomberg

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Use more generic information: Instead of KPMG, you can say only Big 4; instead of the name of your family business, say family business with 1Bn revenue; instead of the name of your university, say "top portuguese uni". People in this forum likes to stay anonimous.

Regarding your chances, I think that your profile is not bad, but it is not stellar and your GMAT is below average for those schools. You should get at least +20 pts. If you could manage to get +740, you could have good chances.

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