Cambridge / Judge - 03-14-2024 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

March 14, 2024 11:18am ET

Applying: Cambridge / Judge, Harvard Business School, London Business School, MIT Sloan, Oxford / Saïd, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Corporate development

Post-MBA Target Industry: Venture Capital, Private Equity Companies: Other

GMAT: 730

GPA: 3.54

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Houston, Texas

Notes:

Very visible leadership roles in college, sit on the board of a renewable energy nonprofit, and raised a lot of money and led volunteer events through a previous employer’s corp philanthropy initiatives.

2 years as a financial analyst from a supermajor oil company (Exxon/Chevron/BP) 2 years corp dev & finace at a PE-backed midstream company, 1 year corp dev at a PE-backed carbon capture company (megafund sponsor)

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 Lots to like here, it seems, with respect to your professional career (show impact and growth) as well as outside activities. Numbers are also very decent. What was your undergrad degree major?

What are your geographic goals, post MBA? US vs Euro for example?

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mbatobe-xlsm Likes Earned: 1 I majored in finance, minored in economics, in the university honors program at a state school ranked ~45 – 65. I am kind of torn between U.S. and UK. I think if I can't get an M7 I will likely target LBS, although leaving Texas is important to me. I scored significantly higher on all of my mocks (all 6 were 750 – 780), so I may take the GMAT FE to get the numbers up. What do you think? What does a HSW or M7 look like for me? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 I think M7 is realistic, given your numbers, and more so if you did slightly improve the GMAT. Key will be your impact and growth at work, which I assume is there, and involvements outside of work (latter looks good). (0)

mbatobe-xlsm Likes Earned: 1 Assuming everything goes right (GMAT retake, tying the story together), is HSW on the table / realistic? What would be target schools? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 Yes, I should think so. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2024/03/mba-wire-taps-345/ (0)

mbatobe-xlsm Likes Earned: 1 Thanks! As a follow up to the questions in the episode, here is a little more about me: I am a white male, born in Dallas, Texas. The hours at my current and last job are slightly brutal (75-ish hours a week on average; I am the only person in my group that did not come from investment banking). In the free time I do have outside of work, I spend a lot of time outside hiking. I've done a few pretty interesting and challenging treks (Emory Peak in Big Bend, rim hike in Grand Canyon, Rincon in Costa Rica, etc), but I don't do anything competitively. This is big part of what interests me in sustainability and renewables – protecting the wild areas that I love. In the long term, I plan on transitioning to a conservation role (something like NatureVest at the Nature Conservancy), but I am not yet in a position to take the kind of paycut that requires. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1580 Nice. Your outside activities and long term goal really resonate. (0)