INSEAD - 06-04-2024 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

June 3, 2024 5:59pm ET

Applying: INSEAD

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Banking tech

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Accenture , AT Kearney , Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , PWC

GMAT: 705

GPA: 3.3

Years of Work Experience: 9.5

Post MBA Location: Europe or Middle East

Notes:

In my thirties with international experience and languages.
Previous experience in banking tech and transformation projects, with some early stage tech startup experience.
Post-MBA I plan to go into consulting, but continuing in the fintech specialism.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1640 Are you only targeting INSEAD? That can be a little risky. Where are you based, currently?

Showing impact and growth at work is very important. Are you also involved in activities outside of work?

What are your long term goals, post consulting?

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wizened Likes Earned: 1 Hi Alex, thanks for your thoughts. I'm only targetting INSEAD right now. I'm really attracted to the international focus and the diversity of the student body. Currently I'm based in South Korea. In banking I had promotions and gradually took on projects of larger and larger scope, eventually working across multiple divisions and countries. Outside work I'm involved in some sports competitions, ran a sports club in my undergraduate days and would do so again at business school. I also run a side consulting business and recently got involved with a new startup. Longer term after a consulting career I'd like to start my own business, likely in financial technology where most of my expertise is. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1640 This all sounds like the makings of a good profile for top MBA programs. Target INSEAD for the first round, and hope you don’t need a second round strategy? (1)

wizened Likes Earned: 1 Thanks for your advice! (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1640 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2024/06/mba-wire-taps-356/ (0)