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December 2, 2024 8:03am ET
Applying: Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2025
Pre-MBA Career: GrowthEquity
Post-MBA Target Industry: Venture Capital Companies: Accell Partners , NEA , Sequoia Capital
GMAT: 750
GPA: 3.9
Location: U.S.
Post MBA Location: California or NYC
Notes:

Hello everyone. I'm a senior and going to apply for the Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton deferred admission programs next year. Would appreciate feedback from people here and what I should do to increase my chances

**Academic Background:**

Undergrad & major: Top Undergrad Business program @ Top State School (Think Ross/Mcintire/Mcdough/Haas level)

GPA: 3.9/4.0.

GMAT: 750

Race/nationality: Hispanic

Sex: M

**Work experience:**

\- Junior Intern & Going back full-time @ T2 Growth Equity Shop (Think Spectrum/Silversmith level)

\- Sophomore Intern @ MBB

\- T1 VC Spring Fellowship

\- 3 Consulting Projects @ different F100 Companies

\- Freshman Intern LMM @ Private Equity Shop

\- Venture Scourt @ Small VC Firm

\- Campus Growth for Series A Startup

\- Econ Research @ HYPSM

**Extracurricular:**

\-President of a large preprofessional URM organization (100+ members). Also did consulting projects for several F500 companies as part of the org.

\-Content creator (100k subs on all platforms doing career/undergrad related vlogs and podcasts)

**Future plans:**

\- Build out venture capital/entrepreneurship/tech companies in 3rd world country my family is from

\- Build out a creator economy tech company to connect the worldd

\- Build out student financing tool because of my background of being FGLI

**Goal of MBA/More info:**

\- PreMBA = Safety net to explore building or joining a renowned startup
\- During MBA = use as incubator to develop my own tech startup
\- Post MBA ideally startup becomes unicorn and I drop out but that's 99% not going to happen so go into early-stage investing at T1 VC or go to T1 GE shop

**Questions:**

Is growth equity a good differentiator compared to traditional roles like IB/Consulting

Really appreciate any advice, thank you!