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After captaining a pro soccer team for a year after undergrad, I spent 3 years as a research analyst at a $250M AUM special sits hedge fund and a $12.5B asset manager. I then spent 1 year as a Sr. Private Equity Analyst investing in the energy transition before joining a fortune 100 CPG in an internal strategy consulting role for the last 2 years.
Target School: Kellogg SOM
Considering: Tuck, Yale, Columbia
See More Profiles For: Kellogg SOM
Application Status: Open
Undergrad School: Private Liberal Arts School
Undergrad Major: Finance
GPA: 3.6
GMAT: 720
Age: 26, Ethnicity: White
Extracurriculars: Junior Chamber of Commerce Philanthropy Board Member, Youth Soccer Coach
Title: Sr. Strategy Analyst
Industry: CPG
Company: Fortune 100 Top 10
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 1 mos
Title: Private Equity Senior Analyst
Industry: Banking & Finance
Company: Global
Length of Employment: 1 yr, 1 mos
(1) Being unanimously elected as captain of a pro sports team by my teammates and coaches. (2) Earning roles at hedge funds, a very well respected PE firm, and successfully pivoting into a strategy role to set myself up for post-MBA success in consulting – all without a target school on my resume or family connections (no nepotism).
My career has been an evolution from being a capital allocator in investing roles where I wasn’t really able to be a part of the solution, to going in house and becoming a part of the long-term solution. My hope is to get into management consulting to get strategy experience outside of CPG and with a broader set of challenges to help solve.
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You’ll be facing one tough goalie to score at Columbia Business School. It’s not that it is impossible, given your raw stats and record of success in i-banking and hedge funds. The fact that you were a semi professional ball player and have been elected captain of a pro soccer club is definitely a very big plus. I wonder if you were a recruited athlete at Whitworth and that is why you went there. As you already know, you went to an undergraduate school that is not highly selective and that is always a key component of a competitive MBA application to an elite school like CBS. So in your app, you need to explain that choice and you need to provide some evidence (assuming …
You’ll be facing one tough goalie to score at Columbia Business School. It’s not that it is impossible, given your raw stats and record of success in i-banking and hedge funds. The fact that you were a semi professional ball player and have been elected captain of a pro soccer club is definitely a very big plus. I wonder if you were a recruited athlete at Whitworth and that is why you went there. As you already know, you went to an undergraduate school that is not highly selective and that is always a key component of a competitive MBA application to an elite school like CBS. So in your app, you need to explain that choice and you need to provide some evidence (assuming there is some) that your hedge fund jobs are highly selective (as they usually are). The fact that you play a major role in idea generation at the firm is big and you should certainly stress that and even tell a story or two about picking a few great investments that have really made a difference to the firm’s performance. Admission folks are risk-adverse people who like the comfort of knowing that their admits have already passed through several fine screens of evaluation. That is why both where you get your undergraduate degree and where you work are critical to a successful application. Also, you are obviously in a highly competitive cohort–white males in finance–at most of the schools you are targeting. That hardly helps you which is why you are facing a very agile goalie at the net. If I were you, I would include Chicago Booth and UCLA Anderson among your target schools. My gut tells me your chances of scoring are much higher at those two schools. One other option, by the way, is applying to Columbia for the January cohort class. That could make a big difference because the admit rate for the January intake is vastly higher than it is for the August class.
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