Profile Review for Wharton Lauder

[jhuntington14]

Hello,

I am interested in getting some feedback regarding my chances at the Wharton Lauder program. I haven't been able to find any info, but does anyone know what the Lauder program acceptance rate and class size is? Here is my info:

Demographics: 28 year old male. Half Japanese. Born in Japan, but grew up primarily in California. I lived in Japan for about 8 years.

GMAT: 710 (47Q/40V/6.0 AWA/8 IR)

Academics: 3.43 GPA from Brigham Young University. BA in Japanese with a minor in business (3.79 major GPA). Graduated in 2008. (Note: I moved back to the US when I was 10 years old and didn't speak Japanese again until I was 19. I decided to major in Japanese to deepen my understanding of the language and the culture that was such a large part of my heritage.)

Work History: 1+ years at Goldman Sachs as an operations analyst. I have been promoted once and expect to be promoted to an associate in January. At matriculation, I will have 2 and a half years at Goldman.

-Prior to Goldman, I spent 2 and a half years at an HR Consulting firm/corporate milestone and recognition award manufacturer and distributor. I worked in international operations managing client and vendor relations in Japan, China, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. I started at the company as a general international operation rep, but moved up to managing those international client and vendor relations.

Extracurricular: In early 2011 I founded a non-profit organization to help increase community awareness of childhood sexual abuse, and to provide financial assistance to underprivileged victims in need of one-on-one counseling. We have helped several victims and I have had the chance to speak to hundreds of members of the community. I was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Volunteer Recognition Award in 2011 for my work in the community.

-I have also been a mentor/instructor for Junior Achievement since the beginning of 2013.

-I am also an ambassador for the Trevor Project in my state, and I regularly respond to LGBT teen's questions regarding struggle they are facing in everyday life.

-I am an avid runner and have run in several marathons.

-I served a two-year mission for the LDS church in Japan. For one of those years I was a regional leader and oversaw the work and well-being of 20 to 30 other missionaries.

Post MBA goals: Short-term - To transition from operations in the financial industry into an operations leadership role at a global consumer products company (Ideally a place like Nike).

Long-term - To become of the COO of a global consumer products company.

Thank you!

[mbamissionjenK]

Hi there,

Thanks for all of your info provided. My feeling is that you are a strong candidate for Wharton's Lauder program, provided that you put together a strong application and set of essays to demonstrate all that you bring to to the table and why you are interested in the program, including what your longer term career vision is.

Your GMAT is near the usual average for the program and your international experiences and exposure are similar to that of many successful applicants. Also their number of applicants focusing on Japanese is actually smaller than many of their other languages (Spanish, Mandarin, etc), so that could be a plus.

They usually take 50-70 or so applicants. There is a lot of great info about the program included here: http://www.accepted.com/chat/transcript ... auder.aspx.

I encourage you to invest a lot of time and effort into your essays as that will be your opportunity to market/showcase what you have to offer and to apply earlier, when your application is ready. Let us know what other questions you have, how we can help, and how everything goes!

Jennifer Kedrowski
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[jhuntington14]

Thanks Jen!

[mbamissionjenK]

You are welcome, keep us posted!