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October 13, 2025 9:00pm ET
Applying: U. Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, UPenn / Wharton, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2028
Pre-MBA Career: Strategy Consulting
Post-MBA Target Industry: Entrepreneurship, Other
GMAT: 675
GPA: 3.94
Years of Work Experience: -4
Location: Los Angeles
Notes:

Demographics: Latino Male, 21, Southern California

Education:
UG at a T1 public school (Cal/UCLA/UMich)

BS in Environmental Science, concentration in political, soc, and biz systems

3.94 GPA (cum laude, dean's list), 4.0 major GPA, pursuing a departmental honors thesis in data center and energy research, also doing my capstone project on electrification of a large studio consortium

Part of HSF and SEO, if that matters

GMAT:

GMAT Focus Edition: 675 (Q86, V84, DI80)

Considering a retake, but want feedback based on this score first

Work Experience:

Full-Time: Analyst at TMT Strategy firm (prob obvious which one it could be)

Internships:

Summer analyst at TMT Strategy firm (took the return offer)

B4 climate advisory intern (got return, but wanted to move to strategy)

Irish political party, worked as a party strategy intern (this was abroad)

Small investment group biz dev intern (but this was pretty meh of an experience, just did this to learn, and lowkey mainly sent emails)

Extracurriculars:

President of Club Track and Field (been an active officer in this for a while because it's my passion, and we have like 200 members, it is actually a lot of work)

Commissioner for my city's environmental commission (not a city council, but a step below), we meet to discuss city legislation and hear public comments

Founder & Board President of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provided waste management services (managed ~$30k budget in HS with like a few grants and 80 households, and I mentor the current HSers through logistical woes like bank and legal stuff)

One of a few volunteers on my university's marine research boat (we ran out of funding, so we are figuring things out)

Project consultant for a social impact finance club, pretty brief

LOR:

Manager on my longest project during my consulting internship

The professor advising my thesis

Post-MBA Goals:

Energy/Infrastructure, specifically the intersection of investment and policy. I like the telecom and data center work at my TMT firm, which is why I returned, and I am currently writing my thesis on the impacts of data centers on energy rates