各位大牛，麻烦评估一下，谢了先

各位大牛们，

本人国内非名牌学校毕业，本科学机械，研究生主修国际经济与贸易，毕业后在国内一家大保险公司投资部门工作了三年，目前负责其中一个二级部门运作，主要职责是负责与国内各大银行的投资业务，主要是大额协议存款，管理资产总计约８００亿元（ＲＭＢ）。参与总计约５－６亿美元的海外投资全过程，熟悉各大外资银行。

曾考过托福（２００１年　６６３），目前已过期了，正准备１０月重考托福，１２月考ＧＭＡＴ。比较向往的学校是 Stern, Chicago GSB, Columbia, LBS.

麻烦各位前辈大牛评估一下有无希望？

Overall I think your target is solid, well I simply thought Columbia probably would be a waste of your time, probably also your money. Columbia is a very competitive school, particuarly for chinese students. In very most case, they only look at applicants from very top chinese schools and they know who are those schools. Second of all, interview also play an significant role during their process. Given the fact that you work for an top tier local insurance company, I expect that your english won't be as good as those who got education at the US or even those consultants from mckinsey, Bain, AtKerney, Monitor, Stern & Stewert, BCG......

You still could try, but don't focus on it.

Thanks a lot, guys.

I understant it's not easy. but i really want to have a try.

mbacn02, you are right. Thanks for ur kind advice. I will kick Columbia out from my list. hehe.

Maybe it's too early for me to think these application stuffs. I should work hard to do well in Toefl and GMAT first.

But by the way, any other school is suitable for me to apply? I really want to get into some good finance schools.

这还得看你的个人兴趣。

你是否真的喜欢Finance里的内容，包括大量的数学和定量模型

俺也在中资银行投资部门工作，对你的工作大概有点概念。虽说都是投资，但定性的成分占大头，和国外真正的Finance有差距。

如果你真的喜欢Finance，那就努力追求你的dream schools

thanks, pengstone.

I totally agree with ur opinon about the difference between financial things used in china and western countries.

That's what I want to improve. For me, I dont use too many quantitative analysis in daily work. But I have some experiece in Fixed Income Investment such as Structured Deposit, CDO, and other derivative investments.

Really crazy about finance, espacially for investment management.

Now I have passed CFA L2 and plan to pass L3 next year.  I suppose it will do me some good for the application.

But who knows.

any advice?

My daily work also involves fixed income securities and foreign currency sturturing, so for this part, we have much in common on job contents. We can call each other "peers".

Congraduation for your success in CFA program. I have registered CFA L2 exam next year, so maybe you can give me invaluabe advice on how to crash it.

By far I tend to position myself in a well-rounded professional in financial industry, therefor I am thirst for perspectives much more than quantitive stuff. knowledge about management, strategy, communication, organization behaviors, etc. So, I prefer both extensive and intensive MBA program

In my opinion, sparing some words about your work in CFA seems unlikely to weaken  your application, if not to be helpful.

What do you think?

That's exactly what I think, pengstone.

I took part in the MBA tour held in Shanghai in 23rd of Sept. and talked about this issue with several schools like Stern, Chicago, LBS, and Anderson. Most of the application officers for these schools agree that holding the CFA charter would be do some good for application. But it still depends on one's other backgrounds like GMAT,W/E,etc. But most important of all, they foccus on if your background and potential outweight the other applicants.

So, CFA charter will do some good, but it depends.

Anyway, I understand that doing well in Toefl and GMAT is the top priority to me now. I should focus on the test rather than other stuffs for the moment.

By the way, I understand you are working in Shenzhen now. Which bank is it? I know a lot of guys in local banks. Maybe we have already met with each other some time at some place. Hehe.

I currently work in BOC

That's really a conincidence.  I went to your bank several times and got aquaintance with some guys there, like Lishu in Financial Institution department and Linsun in treasury department.Do you know them?

and I am going to take a business trip to Shenzhen after the Natinal Holiday. Maybe we can meet with each other there.