MBA Applicant Profile Review

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General Info:

28M (29 by Fall 2024), East Asian

Work Experience:

6 YOE in investment management currently @ large asset manager / solid brand (ie. BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPM), will be 7 by matriculation.

Currently a portfolio manager on a quantitative active fund that mostly does quant arbitrage strategies, total AUM $40BN, positive YTD alpha in 2023.

Previously 2 years on multi-asset model portfolio team and 2.5 years on ETF Product Strategy

Education:

Finance & Information Systems at decent public university (ie. UT - Austin, Georgia Tech, UNC - Chapel Hill, UW - Seattle, UIUC)

BS 2017, 3.45 GPA (GPA dragged down by STEM classes). Various leadership positions & extracurriculars (detail below) 

740 GMAT. CFA Charterholder. Series 7/63

EC (mostly undergrad, last two bullets are probably getting cut on resume):

- Student director for startup incubator on campus, partnership with Techstars. Organized keynote speakers like Alexis Ohanian to speak at club and organized large student startup competitions

- Organized TED talks for students including portion of student speakers

- Study Abroad in London School of Economics, all A's

- Mentor for corporate affinity group for Asian colleagues

- Played club soccer

- Leadership positions in business fraternity

Target Schools:

Haas, Kellogg, Booth, CBS, Anderson, reaching for H/S

Post MBA Goal

MBA >> MBB Consulting >> Tech Corporate Strategy (or Growth Equity / VC if this market will permit)

3 Comments
 

Yeah that GPA is kind of low (understandably with STEM courses), but the 740 GMAT should be enough to be a 'splitter'. I think you will get into a few of your target schools - you have a very strong background. Your career path seems reasonable and achievable. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Yeah, seems very reasonable to me. Only ding is being an over represented group (asian), but everything else is solid. 

 

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