Fresh MA Politics grad from University of Edinburgh here. I started off with mainly academically relevant work experience (work experience at State of Texas, Singapore gvt, emerging economics contract researcher, market researcher for MPP/MPA programs, editorial assistant for a top current affairs journal).
But at the end of my junior year, I got really into the entrepreneurship sphere. In the past 1+ year, I've interned with multiple award-winning startups, hold a chief position at one, worked with a local incubator/early-stage VC etc.
I have a pretty strange story though. Dropped out of secondary school quite early on, took a gap year, decided that flying halfway across the world to go to community college was a good idea, transferred to a Tier 1 private uni, studied abroad at Edinburgh for my 2nd semester sophomore year, and then transferred to Edinburgh.
I have great SAT I and LSAT scores (took the LSAT and then decided being a lawyer would legitly suck balls) but my GRE scores are average at best (top 10% but nowhere close to SAT and LSAT scores).
Planned to study for GMAT to apply to LSE and got lazy. Applied to Imperial and IE for their MSF, waitlisted at Imperial 'cause I applied literally in the last hour (last round, last day, an hour before it closed) and accepted to IE with 40+% scholarship offer.
Not really sure what to do/where to go now.
Torn between doing MSF, looking for a tech/finance consulting job, and doing my own startup. Not sure whether taking CFA level 1 this December will be worth it?
Any advice (or jeering) would be much appreciated, fellow WSOers!
