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September 13, 2022 5:33am ET

Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2023

Pre-MBA Career: Management Consultant at MBB

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Private Equity Companies: Other , Carlyle Group , TPG , KKR , Other

GMAT: 740

GPA: 3.96

Years of Work Experience: 2.5

Location: South Africa

Notes:

South African born, raised and educated. Currently at MBB (1 year), previous experience at elite boutique TMT consulting firm (1 year). Diverse experience across industries and practices. Long term career goal is to start an African PE fund, focused on channeling capital flows into Africa to develop and grow African businesses. Direct post-MBA career goal is to get finance experience in IB, before transitioning to PE. Extra curriculars include non-profit work, work as an educational presenter of over 200 seminars across the country, heavily involved in student societies.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1676 Lots to like, here. IB to PE May well make sense in your case. Assume you’ll have 2 years at MBB before you start your MBA? I’d probably include Stanford in your list of target programs. Super GPA. Showing impact and growth, in work and outside of work is key. (0)

brendallan Likes Earned: 19 Hey Alex - thanks for the response. Will be 18 Months at MBB, and 1 year at Elite Boutique preceding that (South African college timelines are slightly different). Applied Columbia ED 30/08, so sitting tight for interview notification. Fingers crossed! (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1676 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/09/wire-taps-252-south-african-candidate-strong-numbers-nigerian-candidate-works-in-london-higher-ed-candidate-may-seek-impact-investing-role/ (0)