Hello,
I would be grateful if you could evaluate my profile, and tell me whether I have any chances in the nearest admission for Stanford B-School!
Target schools: Stanford
- 22 years old, white male, Middle-East Europe
Short-term goals:
- Gain adequate experience in top VC fund in Silicon Valley
Long-term goals:
- Run own hi-tech startup
Education:
- Bechelors of Quantitative Methods, graduated in July 2013
- GPA: 3.1 (first year: 2.7, second year: 3.5)
- Graduated in 2 years (even though the course takes officially 3 years to finish)
- CFA Level 2 Candidate, passed a local stockbroker exam as one of the youngest candidates
- GMAT: 770
Work experience:
- 6 months (till now) of participating in expansion to US (silicon valley) of one of the portfolio companies,
- 6 months as an analyst in VC fund, evaluating new business ideas and supporting establishing of a new VC fund,
- 2 years working part-time as an analyst in VC fund, duties similar as in the full-time job
- Summer internship in one of the biggest investment funds in Poland, valuating stocks and making investment recommendations.
- Founder of 3 business initiatives operating under business incubator (during high-school)
Achievements:
- 3rd place in finals of Global Management Challenge, world's biggest business competition, national winner. Participation in the competition was funded by KPMG. The challenge was to develop a model linking together financial, optimization and predictive aspects, sold later to a consulting company
- 3x national winner in various Business / Data Analysis Competitions (success rate of each strongly below 0,5%), representing Poland in world finals
- 2x finalist of country finals in Business Competitions (success rate below 1%)
- During High School, 5x laureate of national entrepreneurship competitions
Awards:
- 2x awarded a scholarship of Ministry of Education among 25 other individuals in country, due to extraordinary scientific achievements (during High School)
Leadership:
Ran several initiatives to connect and establish relations between business (Business Angels, VC Funds, Business Accelerators) with university environments (and between business and tech universities). During these initiatives over $40k was raised and I managed 45 people
- Introduced to Poland a 3 Day Startup certified event (3daystartup.com), where 40 students from various environments had an opportunity to create a new startup from scratch under the care of business and industry professionals. An event resulted in 3 established startups.
- Introduced to Poland a student version of Dragons' Den (licensed), during which 5 students had an opportunity to present their business ideas, in front of 5 successful Polish entrepreneurs. 3 of them on the list of top 100 richest men in the country. During the event bids of overall value of $120k were made and 2 startups were established.
- Launched university based consulting group that included students from top business and technology universities, offering analysis to startups and business angels societies. We worked for the biggest business angels society in the country.
- Project manager of Start-up Conference. Over 350 participants and 4 speakers form silicon valley.
- Ran a business competition for high school students. During an the event tightly cooperated with CIMA. Raised $30k and managed 35 people. There were over 7 500 participants from all the country. Winners were offered an internship in an energy company.
References:
- I have strong references from my boss, entrepreneur and a VC fund owner, business angel, recognized as Global Leader of Tommorow by the World Economic Forum in Davos
Other:
- An enthusiastic runner. Ran 2 marathons so far
Why my GPA is so poor? I lost my focus on school in the first year due to my part-time job that was the best thing could happen to me at that time. I also participated in competitions like crazy (fortunately, with effects) and decided to shorten my education to 2 years instead of 3.
I am wondering if you could tell whether above listed achievements could make up for my very likely poor GPA score, which right now, unfortunately I cannot do anything about.
I would be grateful if you could evaluate my profile, and tell me whether I have any chances in the nearest admission for Stanford B-School!
Target schools: Stanford
- 22 years old, white male, Middle-East Europe
Short-term goals:
- Gain adequate experience in top VC fund in Silicon Valley
Long-term goals:
- Run own hi-tech startup
Education:
- Bechelors of Quantitative Methods, graduated in July 2013
- GPA: 3.1 (first year: 2.7, second year: 3.5)
- Graduated in 2 years (even though the course takes officially 3 years to finish)
- CFA Level 2 Candidate, passed a local stockbroker exam as one of the youngest candidates
- GMAT: 770
Work experience:
- 6 months (till now) of participating in expansion to US (silicon valley) of one of the portfolio companies,
- 6 months as an analyst in VC fund, evaluating new business ideas and supporting establishing of a new VC fund,
- 2 years working part-time as an analyst in VC fund, duties similar as in the full-time job
- Summer internship in one of the biggest investment funds in Poland, valuating stocks and making investment recommendations.
- Founder of 3 business initiatives operating under business incubator (during high-school)
Achievements:
- 3rd place in finals of Global Management Challenge, world's biggest business competition, national winner. Participation in the competition was funded by KPMG. The challenge was to develop a model linking together financial, optimization and predictive aspects, sold later to a consulting company
- 3x national winner in various Business / Data Analysis Competitions (success rate of each strongly below 0,5%), representing Poland in world finals
- 2x finalist of country finals in Business Competitions (success rate below 1%)
- During High School, 5x laureate of national entrepreneurship competitions
Awards:
- 2x awarded a scholarship of Ministry of Education among 25 other individuals in country, due to extraordinary scientific achievements (during High School)
Leadership:
Ran several initiatives to connect and establish relations between business (Business Angels, VC Funds, Business Accelerators) with university environments (and between business and tech universities). During these initiatives over $40k was raised and I managed 45 people
- Introduced to Poland a 3 Day Startup certified event (3daystartup.com), where 40 students from various environments had an opportunity to create a new startup from scratch under the care of business and industry professionals. An event resulted in 3 established startups.
- Introduced to Poland a student version of Dragons' Den (licensed), during which 5 students had an opportunity to present their business ideas, in front of 5 successful Polish entrepreneurs. 3 of them on the list of top 100 richest men in the country. During the event bids of overall value of $120k were made and 2 startups were established.
- Launched university based consulting group that included students from top business and technology universities, offering analysis to startups and business angels societies. We worked for the biggest business angels society in the country.
- Project manager of Start-up Conference. Over 350 participants and 4 speakers form silicon valley.
- Ran a business competition for high school students. During an the event tightly cooperated with CIMA. Raised $30k and managed 35 people. There were over 7 500 participants from all the country. Winners were offered an internship in an energy company.
References:
- I have strong references from my boss, entrepreneur and a VC fund owner, business angel, recognized as Global Leader of Tommorow by the World Economic Forum in Davos
Other:
- An enthusiastic runner. Ran 2 marathons so far
Why my GPA is so poor? I lost my focus on school in the first year due to my part-time job that was the best thing could happen to me at that time. I also participated in competitions like crazy (fortunately, with effects) and decided to shorten my education to 2 years instead of 3.
I am wondering if you could tell whether above listed achievements could make up for my very likely poor GPA score, which right now, unfortunately I cannot do anything about.
