Background: 29 year old Chinese American currently living in Africa
Work experience: 2 years in family friend's early stage VC fund in China specializing in outbound investments(small, 50M USD fund)...
moved to African country and joined one of the largest tech companies in the region as CFO/CSO, worked for over one year, oversaw Series B financing...
now working for a top politician in the country as an advisor on Chinese investments in Africa
Extra curricular: moved to America from China in middle school
currently working on two or three reports which will probably be published by the government, one of which I am in the process of expanding and looking for publishers to publish as a book. (fingers crossed I can do this before I submit my app)
CFA I
Shitty programmer, knows some python and java
Fluent in English, Mandarin, and French, intermediate fusa'a Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic)
Given workshops and run camps for African youth on entrepreneurship
Undergrad school/major: Non-Berkeley Top Public School, studied history/political science, graduated summa cum laude (4.1 major GPA, 3.7 overall GPA)...was actually top student of the history department to graduate in my year
One year study abroad at top French school (no grades)
Rhodes scholarship finalist
GMAT: Male
GMAT Score: Haven't taken yet, but CAT so far in the 700 range, aiming for 750+
Goal of MBA: Work for a Emerging Markets Private Equity Firm specializing in Africa/Middle East, maybe raise money from China one day to focus on tech companies in Africa?
Target schools: HBS, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, LBS, INSEAD
I realize that I'm a bit older and don't really have the pedigree, but with schools like Harvard/Stanford, would I be able to compensate for these with a sufficiently interesting story/diversity?
Work experience: 2 years in family friend's early stage VC fund in China specializing in outbound investments(small, 50M USD fund)...
moved to African country and joined one of the largest tech companies in the region as CFO/CSO, worked for over one year, oversaw Series B financing...
now working for a top politician in the country as an advisor on Chinese investments in Africa
Extra curricular: moved to America from China in middle school
currently working on two or three reports which will probably be published by the government, one of which I am in the process of expanding and looking for publishers to publish as a book. (fingers crossed I can do this before I submit my app)
CFA I
Shitty programmer, knows some python and java
Fluent in English, Mandarin, and French, intermediate fusa'a Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic)
Given workshops and run camps for African youth on entrepreneurship
Undergrad school/major: Non-Berkeley Top Public School, studied history/political science, graduated summa cum laude (4.1 major GPA, 3.7 overall GPA)...was actually top student of the history department to graduate in my year
One year study abroad at top French school (no grades)
Rhodes scholarship finalist
GMAT: Male
GMAT Score: Haven't taken yet, but CAT so far in the 700 range, aiming for 750+
Goal of MBA: Work for a Emerging Markets Private Equity Firm specializing in Africa/Middle East, maybe raise money from China one day to focus on tech companies in Africa?
Target schools: HBS, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, LBS, INSEAD
I realize that I'm a bit older and don't really have the pedigree, but with schools like Harvard/Stanford, would I be able to compensate for these with a sufficiently interesting story/diversity?
