Interested in feedback from others. I am debating to apply in r3 (or the equivalent for some schools). Here are some highlights that hopefully will give some of you an idea of where I stand.
Age: 31 (31 at marticulation)
Male, Caucasion
Married, 2 kids with one on the way
GMAT: 730
CFA Level 1 Candidate (taking test in June)
School: Associates degree transferred to BYU for BS-Business Management, emphasis in Finance; Overall GPA: 3.5
Graduation: 2006
Awards/Clubs: 2 Merit Scholarships, Presidential Leadership Scholarship, VP Finance Society, Member Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society
Languages: Fluent Italian, conversational Spanish
Work Experience
-Intern for Investment management firm 2003-2005
-Intern for Utah State Senate President-Chosen out of 300 applicants
-Corporate FX Sales and Trading-2005-Present
-6th employee in firm; now 60+ employees and 6 locations
-Part of team that opened and developed the LA and Dallas offices
-Opened Boston office and continue to manage the eastern United States territory; built book of business from $0 in FX volume to over $225 MM per year
-Member of the credit committee
-Created and implemented training on fundamental and technical analysis for company
-Developed and ran Intern program 2008-present
-Daily analysis of markets and recommendations have generated over $3 mm in revenue annually
-Co-Owner Wakeboard Manufacturer/distributor
-Implemented strategy that grew sales by 100% for 3 straight years (2010-present)
-Grew sponsorship team from 12 to 100 riders who help market the brand around the world
-Created relationships with manufacturing facilities that got the company better quality boards and for 50% less
Service
-Scoutmaster for local scout troop 2008-2010
-Leader of religious youth boys (12-18 years old) and developed program that took participation from 20% to 88% over the past 18 months
-Church Service in Northern Italy 2000-2002; became fluent in Italian while living there for just over 2 years.
-Lead over 150 fellow participants in training seminars
There is additional information, but I don't want to bore all of you out there. Thanks for taking a quick look and giving me some feedback on whether I have a shot in R3 or if I should wait till round 1 and the class of 2016.
Schools I am looking at are the following (in no particular order):
Wharton
Tuck
Stanford
Harvard
Haas
Fuqua
Booth
McCombs
Booth
and weighing either USC or UCLA
Goal: To get into asset management
THANKS!!
Age: 31 (31 at marticulation)
Male, Caucasion
Married, 2 kids with one on the way
GMAT: 730
CFA Level 1 Candidate (taking test in June)
School: Associates degree transferred to BYU for BS-Business Management, emphasis in Finance; Overall GPA: 3.5
Graduation: 2006
Awards/Clubs: 2 Merit Scholarships, Presidential Leadership Scholarship, VP Finance Society, Member Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society
Languages: Fluent Italian, conversational Spanish
Work Experience
-Intern for Investment management firm 2003-2005
-Intern for Utah State Senate President-Chosen out of 300 applicants
-Corporate FX Sales and Trading-2005-Present
-6th employee in firm; now 60+ employees and 6 locations
-Part of team that opened and developed the LA and Dallas offices
-Opened Boston office and continue to manage the eastern United States territory; built book of business from $0 in FX volume to over $225 MM per year
-Member of the credit committee
-Created and implemented training on fundamental and technical analysis for company
-Developed and ran Intern program 2008-present
-Daily analysis of markets and recommendations have generated over $3 mm in revenue annually
-Co-Owner Wakeboard Manufacturer/distributor
-Implemented strategy that grew sales by 100% for 3 straight years (2010-present)
-Grew sponsorship team from 12 to 100 riders who help market the brand around the world
-Created relationships with manufacturing facilities that got the company better quality boards and for 50% less
Service
-Scoutmaster for local scout troop 2008-2010
-Leader of religious youth boys (12-18 years old) and developed program that took participation from 20% to 88% over the past 18 months
-Church Service in Northern Italy 2000-2002; became fluent in Italian while living there for just over 2 years.
-Lead over 150 fellow participants in training seminars
There is additional information, but I don't want to bore all of you out there. Thanks for taking a quick look and giving me some feedback on whether I have a shot in R3 or if I should wait till round 1 and the class of 2016.
Schools I am looking at are the following (in no particular order):
Wharton
Tuck
Stanford
Harvard
Haas
Fuqua
Booth
McCombs
Booth
and weighing either USC or UCLA
Goal: To get into asset management
THANKS!!
