Profile Evaluation - Brazilian Male - GMAT 690

[marcosmt]

Hi,

Could you please evaluate my profile for my target MBA programs? I am targeting for the year 2014.

Personal:

- Brazilian, male, 31 years old, Family Business

Academics:

"¢ Bachelor in Law, Federal University of Parana, Brazil, Year 2005 - Grades: 7.7/10.0
"¢ Bachelor in Economics, Fransciscan University Center of Parana, Year 2005 - Grades: 9.1/10.0
"¢ 1st Ranked in Economics class.
"¢ Finance Extension, UC Berkeley, USA, Year 2006 - Awarded with Distinction
"¢ Logistics Specialization, Franciscan University Center of Parana, Brazil, Year 2008
"¢ GMAT 690, 87% (Q49, 81% and V34, 70%)AWA score 5.0 (60%) and IR 6 (67%)

Work Exp:

Total: 7.5 years

Description
~ 6 months at HSBC Bank as Full Operations Analyst, Curitiba - Brazil
~ 7 years at my Family Business in the Logistics industry - Company´s revenues R$ 150,000,000.00 (Brazilian Real)/year and 410 employees, - Brazil

"¢ Started working in our Family business as Financial Analyst and currently working as a Executive Manager.


International exposure:

"¢ 9 months in New Zeland and Australia between 2001 and 2002 to learn english.
"¢ 2 months in Argentina in 2005 to learn spanish
"¢ 9 months in California - US between 2005 and 2006- Finance Extension + Internship at UBS Financial Services


Extra-curricular/Interests

Basic volunteer activities:
- donation gathering for a Child Care Center's construction in my city
- Legal Assistance to Disadvantaged Communities

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Target MBA Programs:

Kellogg 1 Yr MBA
INSEAD
Columbia J-Term (Accelerated Program)
Cornell 1 Yr MBA (waiting the admission response about my eligibilty)
Emory 1 Yr MBA (thinking about)- what´s your opinion?

After the MBA I will come back to my current company.

So, I would like your opinion about my competitiviness in those targeting schools based on my profile.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.

[Bryant@VeritasPrep]

Your profile is frankly ideally suited for the programs you are targeting. Bypassing the internship, these programs will allow you to get in and out in a much more condensed timeline and take the courses most applicable to your family business. Speaking to the impact you have made and will make going forward post MBA and why you like what you do will be a good way to approach the essays. Certainly offering your unique perspective to your classmates as an international logistics manager will be attractive. You mentioned 2014, but I assume you mean that is when you will start school, but you are applying in the current cycle, yes? LEt us know if we can help you pull everything together. Presenting your story in a compelling way will be critical, as these programs receive thousands of applications from family business employees for the same reasons you are attracted to these programs. BTW, yes Emory is a good target school for you as well.