Hello all,
I would really appreciate if you could help me evaluate my chances to be accepted to an Ivy-League MBA-program in the US (main targets are Harvard and Stanford) which I plan to attend three years from now. Especially the fact (I read it here somewhere) that work experience before/during undergraduate studies is not considered makes me worry a lot since this my largest/only asset.
Here my profile:
- Undergraduate degree in Germany 1.7/5.0 (upper 10%), semester abroad in China (+ one year in Australia during high school)
- GMAT 720
- Internetship at Roland Berger (Strategy Consultant) and PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Co-Founder of 5 companies (all during undergrad, I sold them all now!). One trading company, one Chinese-German Joint Venture in the manufacturing industry, one Real-Estate Private Equity Fund (two projects with deal values of xx million), several smaller start-ups (all successful on a small scale)
- Co-Founder of a Charity Organisation - collected and donated >500k dollar to children in need
- When I apply for the MBA I will have one more internship, a Masters degree in Finance and Accounting (see below why and where I will attend it) in the upper 10% and two years of work experience in Consulting/IB; I will be 29-30(maybe even 31) years old since I am 25 now
- Very good letters of recommendation from my professors - they are not well know though internationally
I know I am quite old already but in Germany students finish a lot later (undergrad with 23/24) than in the US. Our career here progresses faster in the beginning (if we start working in Germany/AU/Switzerland) because our education is a lot longer and prepares us quite thorough. After a Masters degree (other than in the US almost everyone in Germany does a Masters degree; as undergraduate you start one-two positions lower in any company here, exceptions being only in Investment Banking).
Because I graduated at a normal/good German University I plan to attend a Masters program at London School of Economics, University of Mannheim, Goethe University (Frankfurt) or at St. Gallen in Switzerland. I want to go to LSE because of the international reputation although every German student that I know who attended a UK/US top university somewhat found the education in Germany a lot tougher and much deeper/more thorough (+exams and competition are much harder). I really don't know why the German education is ranked so low internationally but it is how it is and I hence I take it how it is.
Best regards and thank you very much
I would really appreciate if you could help me evaluate my chances to be accepted to an Ivy-League MBA-program in the US (main targets are Harvard and Stanford) which I plan to attend three years from now. Especially the fact (I read it here somewhere) that work experience before/during undergraduate studies is not considered makes me worry a lot since this my largest/only asset.
Here my profile:
- Undergraduate degree in Germany 1.7/5.0 (upper 10%), semester abroad in China (+ one year in Australia during high school)
- GMAT 720
- Internetship at Roland Berger (Strategy Consultant) and PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Co-Founder of 5 companies (all during undergrad, I sold them all now!). One trading company, one Chinese-German Joint Venture in the manufacturing industry, one Real-Estate Private Equity Fund (two projects with deal values of xx million), several smaller start-ups (all successful on a small scale)
- Co-Founder of a Charity Organisation - collected and donated >500k dollar to children in need
- When I apply for the MBA I will have one more internship, a Masters degree in Finance and Accounting (see below why and where I will attend it) in the upper 10% and two years of work experience in Consulting/IB; I will be 29-30(maybe even 31) years old since I am 25 now
- Very good letters of recommendation from my professors - they are not well know though internationally
I know I am quite old already but in Germany students finish a lot later (undergrad with 23/24) than in the US. Our career here progresses faster in the beginning (if we start working in Germany/AU/Switzerland) because our education is a lot longer and prepares us quite thorough. After a Masters degree (other than in the US almost everyone in Germany does a Masters degree; as undergraduate you start one-two positions lower in any company here, exceptions being only in Investment Banking).
Because I graduated at a normal/good German University I plan to attend a Masters program at London School of Economics, University of Mannheim, Goethe University (Frankfurt) or at St. Gallen in Switzerland. I want to go to LSE because of the international reputation although every German student that I know who attended a UK/US top university somewhat found the education in Germany a lot tougher and much deeper/more thorough (+exams and competition are much harder). I really don't know why the German education is ranked so low internationally but it is how it is and I hence I take it how it is.
Best regards and thank you very much
