Profile Eval For Top MFins
Currently in my junior summer internship and was thinking of doing a mfin in Europe or the US. The ones I'm considering: MIT, Oxford, LBS, LSE, HEC. Let me know if these are realistic if I plan on working in London.
Nationality: American
GPA: 3.7/4.0 and aiming for closer to 3.8 by graduation
UG: Top 50 non target studying business
GMAT: Will take it soon but hovering around 750 in the practice tests
Internships at a boutique investment bank, very small private equity fund, and F50 tech corporate development
ECs: Senior leadership at my uni's investment fund and I run a tutoring non-profit on the side
Goals: BB or EB IB or Private Equity/Growth Equity
Also, how does recruiting look like for Americans in London for these programs? I've heard the one year aspect makes it really difficult.
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Profile looks competitive but not a shoo-in for the European programmes, can't comment on the US. Definitely worth an application, the university and GPA combo will be a slight issue but wouldn't be an auto-ding (assuming this is top 50 US not top 50 global). American recruitment from these programmes is usually subpar but mainly because of the difference in system, not for visa issues. In particular the lack of explicit OCR processes and the general randomness of London IB / consulting recruitment are what catch out American applicants compared to the US system that is OCR-heavy and / or very networking driven.
In short, you have a realistic chance of admittance to the European programmes with your profile but wouldn't bank on it so would have some back-ups.
If you'll take some advice from a stranger, I've seen Americans have much better luck through UK-based programmes rather than HEC. HEC is a great programme (actually fantastic and at least as good as if not better than the others imo) but if you have the option to pick as an American would opt for LSE / LBS / Oxford. Didn't see anyone from MIT in any London recruiting process when I went through it but may be that they stick to the US.
Thanks for the response. I see Oxford as a toss up but after seeing the class profile of LBS—especially the Americans—I think I have a really good shot there. LSE I'm not so sure about as there's less info but they claim a 6% acceptance rate which is really low. Agreed on HEC, great program but seems to best for French people. My bad, if I went to MIT I would be recruiting for NYC.
If OCR and networking is moot how do firms pick candidates from the thousands of people applying?
For the LSE programme a couple of the people I've seen had ~3.7 at Columbia / USC / Stanford / NYU / UNC / Princeton / UT / Boston College. Wouldn't say the programme will recruit any better than Oxford / LBS but that's the kind of academic profile for the Americans from a quick LinkedIn search.
Networking can have some impact but a lot of it is genuinely down to luck. A lot of candidates get Spring Weeks that convert into SA and the Spring Weeks are pretty much done off high school grades for people in their first and second year of uni. For Masters students you drop the application, network with people from your geography, and then pray that HR choose you to interview.
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