Hi everyone, here is my profile:
1) Work experience: 3 years at mid-level US bank (top 25) working as a commercial lender in the small business department. I went through an intensive 2-year credit training program and completed the program with top marks in all categories including: teamwork, communication, time management, critical reasoning, etc Increasing responsibility throughout the past 3 years, but currently not a manager.
2) 740 GMAT: 45 quant (71 percentile)/47 verbal (99 percentile). 97 percentile overall.
3) Undergrad: 3.2 GPA from UCLA in business economics. Grades got better in later years of college but no denying this is a weak point in my profile. I have taken a handful of accounting classes post-BA at the local community college and got As in all of them.
4) Extracurricular: Spent a month in Tanzania volunteering as an HIV/AIDS educator and at the local orphanage. Also volunteer at the UCLA Alumni Association in their Freshmen Scholarship Program (ie. reading applications and giving interviews to incoming freshmen applying for a given scholarship). In college I was in a sorority and had a position in the sorority (not president -- should I even bother mentioning college extracurriculars at this point, though?)
5) Career Goals: Focus on International Finance in my MBA, as well as further develop my skills in general management and leadership. While my company is a middle-size institution, it is part of the international corporation, which has business all over the world. My current plan would be to continue my career within this corporation, exploring global aspects of the financial services industry, ideally in South America, and achieving increasing levels of management responsibilities. My dream job would be to manage corporate lending in the South American region of the bank. Side note: I am Brazilian and speak fluent Portuguese as well as proficient Spanish.
6)Personal: 25 yo female, latin american, US citizen
Schools:
UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Northwestern, NYU.
I am applying to the PART-TIME programs of each school. Berkeley is my first choice. I would say it and Northwestern are my "reach" schools, and the other three are target schools that I think I have a good shot at. What do you think?
ALSO: I am considering applying to Stanford, too. I know they don't have a part-time program, so this would be an exception to my part-time rule. Obviously, it's a reach. Do I have any chance??? Should I even bother? Will my GPA be a deal-breaker? Feel free to be blunt!
Thank you!
1) Work experience: 3 years at mid-level US bank (top 25) working as a commercial lender in the small business department. I went through an intensive 2-year credit training program and completed the program with top marks in all categories including: teamwork, communication, time management, critical reasoning, etc Increasing responsibility throughout the past 3 years, but currently not a manager.
2) 740 GMAT: 45 quant (71 percentile)/47 verbal (99 percentile). 97 percentile overall.
3) Undergrad: 3.2 GPA from UCLA in business economics. Grades got better in later years of college but no denying this is a weak point in my profile. I have taken a handful of accounting classes post-BA at the local community college and got As in all of them.
4) Extracurricular: Spent a month in Tanzania volunteering as an HIV/AIDS educator and at the local orphanage. Also volunteer at the UCLA Alumni Association in their Freshmen Scholarship Program (ie. reading applications and giving interviews to incoming freshmen applying for a given scholarship). In college I was in a sorority and had a position in the sorority (not president -- should I even bother mentioning college extracurriculars at this point, though?)
5) Career Goals: Focus on International Finance in my MBA, as well as further develop my skills in general management and leadership. While my company is a middle-size institution, it is part of the international corporation, which has business all over the world. My current plan would be to continue my career within this corporation, exploring global aspects of the financial services industry, ideally in South America, and achieving increasing levels of management responsibilities. My dream job would be to manage corporate lending in the South American region of the bank. Side note: I am Brazilian and speak fluent Portuguese as well as proficient Spanish.
6)Personal: 25 yo female, latin american, US citizen
Schools:
UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Northwestern, NYU.
I am applying to the PART-TIME programs of each school. Berkeley is my first choice. I would say it and Northwestern are my "reach" schools, and the other three are target schools that I think I have a good shot at. What do you think?
ALSO: I am considering applying to Stanford, too. I know they don't have a part-time program, so this would be an exception to my part-time rule. Obviously, it's a reach. Do I have any chance??? Should I even bother? Will my GPA be a deal-breaker? Feel free to be blunt!
Thank you!
