Hi Veritas,

It would be greatly appreciated if you could review my profile.

I am 26 years old, going to be a senior in Kelley School of Business at Indiana, graduating Spring 2013 and I would very much like to start my MBA studies right after college. I am a Korean, but I grew up in Singapore since I was 2. I am only in college now because I had to serve the military and also because I worked for a couple of years after high school.

EDUCATION
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN
Bachelor of Science in Business; GPA 4.0/4.0
Major: Management, Operations Management, International Business
Minor: Chinese, Japanese
Broward College, Singapore
•GPA 3.9/4.0
•Elected President of Student Government Association
•Dean’s List for three semesters
•Chairman’s Bursary for two semesters

EXPERIENCE
ICIS Petrochemical News – Singapore
Markets Reporter
•Established new contacts within major petrochemical companies by cold calling to acquire live updates on market
•Awarded “Reporter of the Month” for covering Korea’s largest petrochemical crisis in 2008 faster and in more detail than Bloomberg and Reuters
Intern
•Co-created and maintained a database of all the petrochemical plants in the world
•Wrote news articles on current marketing situation under supervision of head-editor

Singapore Armed Forces – Singapore
Infantry Specialist
•Coordinated different trainings for 27 army battalions, more than 25,000 soldiers
•Implemented new working timeline to ensure smooth work flow within the department
•Awarded “Soldier of the Month” three times in 2007

Razer Asia-Pacific - Singapore
Sales Manager
•Recommended Razer’s sponsoring of the World Cyber Games (WCG) to achieve brand recognition in Korea
•Established contact with management of the organizing company to sponsor the World Cyber Games
•Attained sponsorship of World Cyber Games amid strong competition from Logitech and Creative

ACTIVITIES
Indiana University Billiards Club – Bloomington, IN
President, Team Captain and Coach
•Trained and led team to win ACUI Regional 9-ball Championships for the first time by training the team two times a week with drills
•Won the ACUI Regional 9-Ball Championships held at Ball State University
•Attained top 20 ranking at ACUI National 9-ball Championships

Student Government Association – Broward College, Singapore
President
•Managed 8 committee members to organize events throughout the semester including night cycling, bowling competition and mid-autumn festival for the Chinese student body
•Organized the first combined commencement ceremony for Broward College, University of South Florida and SUNY Buffalo involving 200 guests and 50 participants

Habitat for Humanity – Batam, Indonesia
Volunteer
•Led a team of 12 other volunteers to raise $7500 to build houses for a village in Indonesia
•Organized the volunteer mission taking care of transportation, accommodation and all other requirements

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Korean, Chinese, Japanese


I am going to take the GMAT coming March and hope to surpass the 700 mark.

Could you please advise on which schools would be feasible for me, and/or if I should even try applying for top Bschools with my profile. I am actually really interested in the HBS 2+2 program.

Thank you in advance!

My latest WE was not in my previous post and is as follows:

GBM Blue Ocean Engineering Pte Ltd, Singapore
Managing Director
- Consultation services in Marine Industry
- Worked with a large Conglomerate in South Korea for trading marine equipments worth over $60 mil

Thank you in advance once again.

Thanks for your post. I am actually seeing several things in your profile which could grab the attention of top schools who tend to favor younger applicants. You already mentioned the HBS program and Yale also has a similar program, which is a three-year MBA program for college seniors called Silver Scholars. Stanford is also known for admitting younger candidates. I would say if you can demonstrate the same kind of leadership at Kelley that you did at Broward (SGA president, etc.), and show maturity and clarity of vision, you could have a shot. Getting a great GMAT score would certainly help, so work as hard as you can to get a 700+. Let us know if we can help--lots of our clients apply to these programs.