<p>How are my EC’s, Honours, Sports?</p>
<p>BARE IN MIND; I AM A U.K APPLICANT, SO YOU WILL NOT SEE ALL THOSE STATE AWARDS etc.</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>-Peer Support President (Basically Buddy program for 1st Years i.e 11 Yearolds)
-Worked for Not-for-Profit Organisation (Oxfam)
-Debating Society
-Discussion Society
-Internship at CitiGroup Investment Bank
-Stockbroking at Morgan Stanely Quilter
-Internship at Think Tank (Social Market Foundation)
-Volunteering in Africa with orphans of AIDS
-600+ Hours Community Service
-Member of The Royal Economic Society
-Intense Research in Political Economy
-Combined Cadet Force - Non-Commisioning Officer, Sergeant
-£7,000 Raised for Cancer Research from fundraising
-Several Publications in Local Newspaper
-Involvement in Conservative Party Conference
-Helped and Assisted Prospective Youths on a Junior Year 5 Workshop Day
-School Deputy Head Boy
-Attended Several LSE Economics Lectures
-Conservative Party Member
-Junior Rowing Coaching and Teaching
-Publications in School Magazine
-Junior Rugby Coaching and Teaching
-Volunteered in an Economic Conseravtion in Peru, Writing a Day to Day diary of the on going Economic and financial crisis in Peru, which I published in the Economics Web Institute, The International Economic Development Council, The Insititute for International Economics, The European Economic Association and The Royal Economic Society
-£1000+ Raised for School Rowing Boat Club</p>
<p>Sports</p>
<p>-First Team Rugby - Captain
-Lancashire Cup (State Competition) Rugby Winners
-Rowing Boat Club Co-President
-JU18 Quad Qualification and Victory for Henley Regatta (1st)
-County and District Rugby 1st Team
-Rugby Mail Cup (Country Competition) Semi-Finalists
-Junior Rugby Coaching
-Junior Rowing Coaching</p>
<p>Honours and Awards</p>
<p>-Top of Year Classics
-Top of Year Economics
-Top of Year English Literature
-Short Listed in European Economic Association Young Economist of the Year
-Duke of Edinburugh Bronze
-Duke of Edinburugh Silver
-Duke of Edinburugh Gold
-Millenium Volunteer 200 Hours Award
-600 Hours Community Service (so far)</p>
<p>Summer Programs</p>
<p>-Wharton Business School - Leadership in the Business World
-(Hopefully next year) Harvard SSP Economics (Hopefully next year)</p>
<p>Note; this is only so far. I’m sure I will achieve much more.</p>
<p>Can I improve in any way?</p>
<p>You’re great! You’re awesome! I think that’s what you wanted to hear?
Actually, you might try doing some math competitions; you’re almost too focused. And while you have a nice resume accomplishments wise, you don’t have anything uniquely esoteric that makes me say “wow, this is a really cool person”. One thing you could do that you might find interesting is to take a summer with a professor or group and do quantitative capital markets research, although the math might be too hard</p>
<p>I’m going to try and get into some Venture Capital Firms and perhaps look at some research etc.</p>
<p>I say, is there anything esoteric you’re interested in and you say venture capitalism - that’s really just tangential to everything you’ve already got. If you can find a VC firm to do some work for that would be cool and I say go for it, but analyst level work in venture capital is really on the same page as M&A. Again the only issue is that most of what you’ve got here is business related and it looks suspiciously like you’re just trying to hit all the MBA buzzwords to fill a professional resume (you missed China and Outsourcing, incidentally). The MIT app is not just about your grades and ECs (although yours are impressive), it matters how creative and interesting and diverse of a person you come across as. In the case that you did a middle/back office internship at Citi and similar, it won’t be a stellar hook and it honestly those jobs are kinda boring which raises passion-related questions. If you did front office everybody will just assume you have connections.</p>
<p>What is it about VC, exactly that makes you want “get into some firms”? Is it something that will speak to me in an application essay? Will it make me want to sit in a car with you for 5 hours? I should say that I’m rather involved in the entrepreneurial community at MIT; was co-prez of web.mit.edu/e-club for a few semesters.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with being passionate about what happen to be the 3 highest paying jobs there are, but you need to find a good way to express yourself, and also you need to demonstate some elite mathematical ability. I get the feeling that your parents both work in industry and have well-trained you; keep in mind that universities are not workplaces, and they’re trying to fill a class of 1000… applying to an undergraduate research college is not neccessarily the same as applying to a job.</p>
<p>I just want to understand your motivations a little.</p>