Candidate:

Mr. Change For Africa’s Ecosystem

About Me:

Passionate tech entrepreneur and software engineer with over 7 years of pro-experience. Strategic thinker, who loves to create order out of chaos, with a solid understanding of blockchain, fintech, payments, innovation, student housing, emerging markets and digital solutions delivery. My work enables global commerce and has a positive and long-lasting impact on millions of users. 

Schools:

Target School: Ross

Considering: Duke Fuqua, McCombs School of Business, MIT Sloan

See More Profiles For: Ross

Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka

Undergrad Major: Electronics & Computer Engineering

GPA: 3.2

GRE: 303

Age: 27, Ethnicity: Black or African American

Other Degree/Certification: Project Management, Online Diploma

School Name: International Business Management Institute

Extracurriculars: Co-Founder (Livekampus) - A student housing platform committed to helping students find available and affordable accommodation options across top school cities in Nigeria, Project Zeros, Event Organizer – present Community reach out events aimed at fostering wellness, promoting good health, and facilitating environmental cleanliness in slums and inaccessible localities., Smile Network, Fundraising Member Assist less privileged kids pay tuition, buy textbooks and prepare for standardized exams.

Work History:

Title: Paga Group

Industry: Technology

Company: Top Firm

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 6 mos

Title: FINT Technology Africa Ltd

Industry: Technology

Company: Start-Up

Length of Employment: 4 yrs, 1 mos

Big Life Wins:

As part of my entrepreneurial experience, I co-founded and built LiveKampus.com, an innovative service for university students looking to live off-campus. Livekampus provides a simple cloud-based, housing intel app for schools in Africa, with Nigeria as the pilot. My team of two and I have since gone on to gather over 2000 bed spaces, 1000 registered users, and some amount of booking requests on the platform. As proof of concept, we were part of the 1000 companies selected out of the 50000 companies that registered for the 2017 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurial program, after which we received a $5000 grant to help scale the business.

Post MBA Goal:

Following my graduation, my short-term goal will be to gain industry experience in the US mainly transitioning into a technical product management role at a high growth startup or fortune 500 company, after which I intend to go full-time into entrepreneurship. I have a passion for technological innovations and how they can be used to create enabling environments for indigenous entrepreneurs and local products to solve problems for Africa’s ecosystem, which ties into my long-term plan to return to Nigeria and create this reality

Odds:

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Stratus Admissions Counseling Odds Assessment: 30%

Hi, it’s Jennifer Jackson from Stratus Admissions. You have so much to love in your profile! Your impressive entrepreneurial work in tech innovation, helping students and underserved populations in Africa, will be extremely attractive to adcoms. I think Ross would be a great fit. I’m not sure what the GPA equivalent would be in the US, but I’m assuming it’s strong and you have a STEM major with impressive work as well. Your GRE is the main challenge I’m seeing here, as it’s substantially lower than the average at Ross. You’re coming from an under-represented demographic so that will be helpful but I would recommend re-taking the GRE if possible and trying to score higher. I also think you should be more explicit about your …

Hi, it’s Jennifer Jackson from Stratus Admissions. You have so much to love in your profile! Your impressive entrepreneurial work in tech innovation, helping students and underserved populations in Africa, will be extremely attractive to adcoms. I think Ross would be a great fit. I’m not sure what the GPA equivalent would be in the US, but I’m assuming it’s strong and you have a STEM major with impressive work as well. Your GRE is the main challenge I’m seeing here, as it’s substantially lower than the average at Ross. You’re coming from an under-represented demographic so that will be helpful but I would recommend re-taking the GRE if possible and trying to score higher. I also think you should be more explicit about your ST and LT goals after the MBA. What I see is your career aspiration, which is nicely worded, but they’ll want to see more clearly exactly what you see yourself doing after school, and how the MBA is integral to that goal. Wishing you lots of luck!

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