我也请各位同仁看看以该背景能申请到哈佛吗？

longbright

刚来CD.找到大部队的感觉真好。本人准备申请2008年的美国学校的MBA，自视甚高，只想申请HBS,Stanford,Wharton,Columbia,Yale五所学校。各位帮我分析分析，如果大家都觉得希望不大的话，我就不忙活了（因为本人是法律背景，在外国律所工作好几年，要转行代价会比较大）。

80年生，北京一所普通财经院校管理学学士（GPA 3.6), 毕业后在算是家族的制药企业干了一年，一门心思要把它做大，不想遇上官司，家族企业风雨飘摇，父亲退出。我因此觉得法律很重要，就在我们家低潮时去上中国政法大学上两年法学第二学位（不好意思没考上硕士），GPA 3.4左右。这两年里参与课外活动比较多，在国内一家NGO（实际是管NGO的国字头协会）做兼职一年，帮他们筹备各种慈善活动主题会议和筹钱。因为和一些学校的教授（他们同时是一些法律的起草人之一）关系好，作为中间人去征求了在某国外律所北京代表处的合伙人对某些法律草案的意见，然后再反馈给起草人。来来去去，毕业后就混进了该世界最大律所北京代表处做律师助理。在这间律所，本人主要从事金融法律，主要为那些国际投行和金融集团服务。参与过国外财团入股建行等所谓大案子。本人在此过程中对投行业务发生了浓厚兴趣，虽然现在做法律工作近三年，也从助理变成了律师，但决心转行。不想前不久自己申请投行都被据，高人指点可以曲线救国，去读MBA再申请。刚考了G,才700出头，T630,但自觉准备不够，想再考一次G。因为在工作过程中，一直参与给各种经济法律草案提意见，和一名全国人大常委认识，他答应可以给我写推荐信，他以前是某省书记，封疆大吏。去年申请过LLM，被放在Yale Law School的waitlist上，Columbia，Penn，Oxford 都给了offer, Stanford and Harvard 没申。最终因为梦中的Yale Law School没要我，其他学校又没钱又没贷款，所以也没去。现在已不想再申老流氓(LLM的谐音）。目前有机会去某国际律所香港办公室干，所以疑惑如果申MBA会不会代价太大。但本人内心目标还是想从事投行之类的金融工作，然后去政府的财政金融部门，试图改变一些什么（是不是口气太大？）。各位给我提提意见吧！我还应从哪些方面努力（除再考G以外）？希望大吗？请指教，先谢谢各位了！（不好意思在这里写个人自传）。

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-20 20:16:45编辑过]

longbright

怎么没人给我回贴啊?大家有什么意见建议尽管说啊,不管是什么我都很愿意看到。

zxl_moon

我觉得只要你能把你的经历在Essays中写的出彩，是有可能的，毕竟投行里是需要懂法律的人的，例如，M&A transcations. 要觉得把你的经历写的曲折，突出培养了你A，B，C素质（should be coupled with the qualities Universty you applied for stresses.）

longbright

谢谢楼上的回复。我现正处于矛盾中，如果接受去香港工作的offer, 在今年内势必就不会有充足时间准备申请。外国律所我已经领教了，香港的办事处更是会用人到极至。况且刚换工作一年内就申请，也不太好。如果不申请2008年入学，再往后从事法律工作越来越长，转行越不易。也许就此与自己的目标擦肩而过。如果不去香港就意味在本领域内失掉了一次很好的机会，他们说如果干的好也可送我去英美读一两年法律去拿外国律师执照（这样才能在外所混）。继续留这儿然后申请，如果申请不上这几所牛校，那自己又会后悔当初不去香港。毕竟我是半路出家，外国律所的收入也可观（当然这也得考虑，毕竟贷几十万上学两年内不拿工资30毕业然后再重新找工作）。

谢谢你的鼓励！无论怎样我都追随我心作出选择！

jiefu

"谢谢你的鼓励！无论怎样我都追随我心作出选择！"

 

还是个性情中人勒,赞一个! 觉得上面给的意见很到位,就不罗嗦了.祝你成功的追逐"心作出的选择", 因为偶也是勒..嘿嘿

yaoyao99

What are you expecting to get out of a MBA program?  Why do you need it?

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-21 2:53:06编辑过]

vickiyan

如果想做投行，Stanford恐怕不适合你。

longbright

Thanks for the questions of floor 6. If I were not mistaken, you must be the pretty who had been admitted by HBS. Really feel flattered! Your questions are exactly the ones I am considering now. My thoughts at this stage are not totally clear but I feel the compulsion inside of me to get a MBA is strong. Most of my existing experiences is practicing business law, particularly providing legal opinions and advises in respect of the IPO, merger and acquisition, project financing, and banking and securities regulation matters, etc. Most of my serving clients are international investment banks and financial institutions. I helped them structuring the transaction, conducting the due diligence, preparing the documents, providing compliance advises, etc. But the scope of legal work is limited, I just provide assistance and enter into the site after clients have felt it is necessary. We lawyers are not the deal-maker and rain-maker like our clients. I am more and more curious on the represented transactions' background and how to initiate a deal and get it done. Thus I want to change to the career of investing bank to know the whole process such as how to issue the stocks to institutional investors and public, how to do the roadshow and pricing the stock, how to conduct the equity research and prepare a report from the business perspective, formation of a private equity fund, how to find a acquisition target, and how to raise money to secure a transaction or funding a project, etc. I think these should be bigger and challenged than solely practicing the law in relevant field. A top MBA may allow me to complete the career change and equipped with necessary knowledge and skills to do this in a relatively short course.

On the other hand, I have frequently contacted relevant regulatory government bodies due to the nature of my work. I had to represent clients to get the approval and get the transactions under the government's supervision. In the mean time, I have the chances to take part in various business-related laws and regulations drafting process. These push me to think a question from the policy-makers' perspective and found that many stipulations are not clear and practicable. My ultimate goal is trying to change some rules on finance in China. However, only being familiar with the text and knowing how to play the language are not enough. I have to be a practitioner in financial industry and get extensive experiences firstly, and then I just can formulate a good rule or make a wise decision for the public. A MBA program can allow me to firstly become a practitioner in financial industry.

Above is my initial thoughts on your (also mine) questions. Any further comments are welcomed and highly appreciated.

And thanks for the reply of floor 7 too. I know Stanford is more interested in young talent with entrepreneur spirit. It is not that fit with my background and goal. I name it just because it’s a big name no one can ignore. Maybe I will replace it with another top school with more finance or leadership focus (say Chicago) when I apply.

jiwang4

good Why MBA answer already! You may even try a R3 this year.  I don't see you have any problem to get into a top finance school (Chi, Columbia, Wharton, NYU) next year, and certainly have a shot to H and S.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-22 5:30:40编辑过]

cl3055

投行很愿意要做金融的律师的，建议重新直接申请投行职位，单纯要去投行，从你的位置直接起步就很好了，2年出来当Associate，如果好的话，AVP不一定很划算。