
Candidate:
Mr. PE To Startup
About Me:
I currently work at a large private equity firm (think KKR, Apollo, etc.) on a direct investing team and am responsible for underwriting corporate debt transactions. I’m only a few years out of college so I have limited work experience, but I’m hoping that my GMAT score and the quality of my work experience will help differentiate my application.
Details:
Undergrad School: University of Notre Dame
Undergrad Major: Finance
GPA: 3.75
GMAT: 760
Age: 24, Ethnicity: White
Extracurriculars: Junior Board member for my college's undergraduate business school; volunteer at a local charter school
Work History:
Title: Associate
Industry: Banking & Finance
Company: Top Firm
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 3 mos
Post MBA Goal:
I would use my MBA to transition to a more entrepreneurial, tech-driven finance job. Having worked at a large investment firm, I’ve gotten exposure to large-scale deal processes, but am hoping that an MBA would provide me an opportunity to improve my leadership and management skills to ultimately join or create a startup.
Hi Mr. PE-to-Startup, this is Julie-Anne Heafey with mbaMission. You are pretty young for your target schools; the days when you went to an MBA program directly or near-directly from undergrad are mostly over…and while I don’t want to say it’s impossible, it’s pretty rare. I appreciate that you have managed to land in a highly competitive role early, and that’s great, but IMO another year or two would make a big difference in your outcome. I work with a lot of PE applicants, and it’s a very competitive category. You’ve got great stats, and a stellar firm (it seems), but so do most of the other applicants in your category. What tends to make the difference for a young applicant …
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