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June 24, 2024 9:20am ET

Applying: Cambridge / Judge, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting (Big 4)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Other

GRE: 325

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: Singapore

Post MBA Location: Undecided

Notes:

2 Years Military Experience (Army and Navy), Command School
First Class Honors, Accounting and Finance, Top 10 UK University
Co-founded University's Accounting and Finance Society
Chartered Accountant, qualified with Big 4, leads several Associates
Mentor for a secondary school entrepreneurship program

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1649 Be good to know more about your post MBA goals, and why MBA, etc. This should help in terms of targeting schools, as well as developing your narrative.

Super GPA. Do you think that 325 is your best GRE score; it’s decent, just not outstanding.

Showing impact and growth at work will be important. Are you also in activities outside of work?

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kykolo Likes Earned: 1 Thank you! Sorry forgot to clarify in the notes - I've worked in financial services advisory and audit for several years in the banking and private equity space. Saw a lot of pressing problems in the industry in Singapore (highly reliant on the FS industry) and wanted to be part of the implementation and strategy for institutions here. Short term is to work in Operations Management in a bank like JPM, BoA etc. Long term is to go back to my home country to lead as a COO for one of the smaller local banks here to drive sustainable change in terms of human capital, operations, financial allocation. I need an MBA abroad (the US is one of the best for FIs) to help build my skills and knowledge in strategy, management, leadership skills, networking, human capital management, and tech implementation to help improve the industry in my country. I can retake the GRE, the breakdown was a Q168 and V157 without studying vocab - took it after 2 weeks of prep. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1649 Makes good sense. I would put some good prep effort into the GRE and see how much you can boost the score, so it can also stand out. Final question is more about your activities outside of work, and hobbies and interests. Anything stand out, there? (0)

kykolo Likes Earned: 1 Sure thing and thanks on the GRE! I'm an avid golfer, being playing for 25 years, love photography - I have arranged sessions with colleagues at work for golf and photoshoot outings. My hours have been long since working so I've only got a few mentoring opportunities with middle/high school students through my firm. Lots of contributions at work not within my usual responsibilities. Hope this clarifies and I appreciate your feedback very much. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1649 Nice! Might be worth expanding your list of target programs, adding 1-2 more M7, 1-2 from the next tier. Columbia and Stern, for example. Good luck with the GRE. (0)