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!