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A sucker for weekend hikes and backpacking overseas. Enjoys playing sports, reading books, and brewing (and drinking) beer.
Target School: Harvard
Considering: Wharton
See More Profiles For: Harvard
Application Status: Open
Undergrad School: University of Alberta
Undergrad Major: Mechanical Engineering
GPA: 3.7
GMAT: 710
Age: 26, Ethnicity: White
Other Degree/Certification: CFA - L1, L2, L3
School Name: CFA Institute
Extracurriculars: Society of Petroleum Engineers - Events Committee Volunteer
Title: Engineer
Industry: Power / Energy
Company: Global
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 11 mos
International assignment after one year on the job. Acing all three CFA exams while working full time.
Hedge fund, Activist investing, or early-stage VC.
Hopefully not consulting or 120-hour banking work weeks.
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This is not going to happen. The reason: There is nothing driving you in. While the CFA qualifications are something to be proud of, they aren’t going to offset some other issues with your profile, including a GMAT score that is 20 points below Harvard’s median. Plus your undergraduate education and, I will assume, your employer lack “gold” status and are more like “silver.” Nothing wrong with that, of course, except you are competing against other applicants in the pool who have “gold” credentials. Your post-MBA goal to work in a hedge fund or a VC firm seems unrealistic given your experience as an engineer for an oil company. How to turn this around? You need a higher GMAT score and several examples where you …
This is not going to happen. The reason: There is nothing driving you in. While the CFA qualifications are something to be proud of, they aren’t going to offset some other issues with your profile, including a GMAT score that is 20 points below Harvard’s median. Plus your undergraduate education and, I will assume, your employer lack “gold” status and are more like “silver.” Nothing wrong with that, of course, except you are competing against other applicants in the pool who have “gold” credentials. Your post-MBA goal to work in a hedge fund or a VC firm seems unrealistic given your experience as an engineer for an oil company. How to turn this around? You need a higher GMAT score and several examples where you have stretched your leadership muscles both at work and in extracurricular activities that show you have real leadership potential. And you shouldn’t say you want to work for a VC firm or a hedge fund, without a financial background or any indication where that would make sense. Otherwise, you really don’t stand a chance at Harvard or Wharton.
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