Candidate:

Mr. Big 4 East Coast Consultant

About Me:

After graduating undergrad at BC, I moved into a Big 4 Accounting firm’s consulting group focusing on program management for large technology implementations. Over the past two years, I have been flexing into a development role (on top of a PM role), building out critical pieces of data processing functionality which the technology solution relies on.

Schools:

Target School: Chicago Booth

Considering: Wharton, Kellogg SOM, MIT Sloan

See More Profiles For: Chicago Booth

Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Boston College

Undergrad Major: Finance and Information Systems (Double)

GPA: 3.6

GMAT: 730

Age: 28, Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino

Extracurriculars: Career Mentorship - working in a mentorship capacity for students graduating college and looking to pursue their careers out of school.

Work History:

Title: Sr. Associate

Industry: Consulting

Company: Big 4 Accounting Firm

Length of Employment: 5 yrs, 9 mos

Big Life Wins:

Designed, built, and operated an accounting solution in Alteryx that was used by Fortune 50 Company to perform critical accounting calculations of their $7.9B portfolio of contracts. Calculations from this solution were used for financial reporting for 6 months prior to the complete integration of the go-forward solution.

Post MBA Goal:

Short Term: Pivot to strategy consulting where I would ideally work for 3-4 years
Longer Term: Corporate-side strategy group

Odds:

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mbaMission Odds Assessment: 25%

Hi Mr. Big 4 East Coast Consultant,
It sounds like you’re stretching yourself at work. This is Debbie Choy from mbaMission. I think you have a lot of strengths in your profile – robust work trajectory, excellent academics (GPA and GMAT), and active community engagement through your mentoring work. As you put your apps together, be sure to articulate why you wish to pivot into strategy consulting. Why are you passionate about formulating strategy on the corporate side long-term? Which industry are you interested in, and why? For example, what type of companies do you aspire to work for long-term? What would you be doing that leverages both your accounting and tech backgrounds? As well, what specific skills and knowledge are you seeking to gain at …

Hi Mr. Big 4 East Coast Consultant,
It sounds like you’re stretching yourself at work. This is Debbie Choy from mbaMission. I think you have a lot of strengths in your profile – robust work trajectory, excellent academics (GPA and GMAT), and active community engagement through your mentoring work. As you put your apps together, be sure to articulate why you wish to pivot into strategy consulting. Why are you passionate about formulating strategy on the corporate side long-term? Which industry are you interested in, and why? For example, what type of companies do you aspire to work for long-term? What would you be doing that leverages both your accounting and tech backgrounds? As well, what specific skills and knowledge are you seeking to gain at Booth? If you can articulate this compellingly in your essays, that would be the key to your application success. If you would like to discuss your profile in more detail, feel free to schedule a 1:1 consultation with us. Wishing you the best in your MBA journey!

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