jackrabbit

some of these schools are more competitive than others although very colse in ranking (HBS, wharton) will not accept you. From my point of view launching a startup and giving it up after a year raises a lot of questions, one year being too short and questionable, for me i see it as if you couldn't find a job during your 1 year of allowed work after graduation, so you will need to really spin that in your favor in essays and if you're lucky interviews. is the major big firm and international one? what sort of consulting work are you doing for them. Again i am just speaking about the HBS and whartons of your list, cornell and the types you'll get in easy. just up that gmat score to the 700s

Hello all, So i am seriously considering an MFE degree, but i have a lot of doubts about my chances of getting in top 10 /15 programs, this program being so focused it would be a waste of time and money if i don't get into a program that has good placement stats (if i'm wrong please correct me). My profile is extremely different from what these grad schools look for and i am really not sure if it is in my advantage or not. I graduated from a french public high school (public being the most reputable in france) with a major in Physics and Chemistry, Math was pretty advanced as well i then went to Drexel University where i graduated in Bus Admin with a Major in finance (pretty relaxed) i did very well in all my finance course and pretty much all the basic scientific courses that were required (A's in almost all of them, Math 101 and 102, Stat 201 and 202 etc...) in fact the level of math, stat and prob was way below what i studied in my junior year in high school. that's pretty much my academic background. I then went on to work for 5 years at BlackRock doing data integrity work where i was a senior associate it involved a lot of SQL and exposure to FI structured and deriv plus the heavy use to their in-house analytics and risk reporting tools (no programming experience) i also managed teams there and remotely (india) and worked in some very interesting projects while i was there (BlackRock was considered as the go to firm during the fin crisis, so we had a lot of risk reporting assignments to worked on), after 5 years i left BlackRock and went back home, while in Morocco i co-founded a startup and we launched North africa's first mobile coupon website, we raised capital, had a good amount of paying clients, employed 8 to 10 people and were well known locally and had multiple press articles written about us (Morocco's ecommerce world is very weak so new ventures are not as common as in the usa) later on we decided to sell our stakes to a fund who offered us a decent amount (less than 500k which is huge for us). I now want to go back into finance in the US (i am a citizen, dual) but i want to get into front office gigs in IB / S&T or even consulting, therefore i need to get the degree. I am not sure if my profile is something that a top 20 MFE program would be interested in. I looked at their class profiles and most are from a recent math UG program and are already skilled programers and foreigners with prob no work visa, which is not my case (so maybe that would help in the admission process??) Help, advice veryyyyyyy welcome. What should i do guys?