Mr. Accountant To Strategist

An accounting betrayal? I can’t blame you for getting out of accounting, though some love the field and i really don’t have any investment in that debate. Nonetheless, your young career in moving from accounting to venture capital and then banking and finance is impressive. So is the fact that you have worked or studied in four different countries at such a young age. It’s hard to assess your odds at Stanford without a standardized test score and without knowing if your ambitions have been only for your career as opposed to being ambitious to help others (something that would be important to the admission folks at Stanford given the school’s explicit mission to “Change Lives, Change Organizations. Change the World.’ I see no evidence of that in your writeup. Stanford’s class GMAT average is also the highest in the world so the hurdle rate on a super impressive standardized test score is high. All that said, you have created for yourself, especially as a first-gen grad, an impressive career with remarkable accomplishments from your moving to Rotterdam for undergrad studies to getting a master’s at LSE to those promotions in a series of different jobs. So while I may be less certain about your chances at Stanford, I’m more optimistic about your odds at the other target schools you list. I would put Columbia and Chicago Booth on your list given your post-MBA goals. They would be excellent places for you to get an MBA and move into fintech growth investing. Good luck to you!