Can someone please give me some feedback on my potential candidacy? I am also looking for some advice about which MBA admissions consultants to use. There are a ton of them out there and I have no idea who is legit or not.
I am only interested in top 10 American b schools. I would also like to know if I should re-take the GMAT. I didn't do that well on the quant, but I have a strong finance background.
GMAT - 720 (44Q/44V) (quant is 70% percentile!)
Undergrad - Northwestern (3.5)
Work experience
-5 years at Morgan Stanley (analyst / associate) - 3 years in New York, 2 in London. Started in M&A and then switched into the securitization principal finance team (which bought loans and re-packaged them as opposed to purely underwriting securities).
-1 year at a top global hedge fund focused on distressed debt. The core team left and started its own fund which I am currently at.
-2.5 years at current fund - same strategy as before, distressed debt, illiquid credit securities. I am a founder and significant equity partner in the fund
I want to go to b school to change career paths. I am strongly considering working for my family business in Asia (a large food products concern) and think that business school would allow me to learn about marketing/management and how companies are actually run, as opposed to evaluating them on a purely financial basis.
What do you guys think?
I am only interested in top 10 American b schools. I would also like to know if I should re-take the GMAT. I didn't do that well on the quant, but I have a strong finance background.
GMAT - 720 (44Q/44V) (quant is 70% percentile!)
Undergrad - Northwestern (3.5)
Work experience
-5 years at Morgan Stanley (analyst / associate) - 3 years in New York, 2 in London. Started in M&A and then switched into the securitization principal finance team (which bought loans and re-packaged them as opposed to purely underwriting securities).
-1 year at a top global hedge fund focused on distressed debt. The core team left and started its own fund which I am currently at.
-2.5 years at current fund - same strategy as before, distressed debt, illiquid credit securities. I am a founder and significant equity partner in the fund
I want to go to b school to change career paths. I am strongly considering working for my family business in Asia (a large food products concern) and think that business school would allow me to learn about marketing/management and how companies are actually run, as opposed to evaluating them on a purely financial basis.
What do you guys think?
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