I am applying for WUSTL's Master of Customer Analytic. The topic of the essays is as follow.
1. In one or two sentences, please describe your immediate career plans upon graduation from Olin.
2. At Olin, we pride ourselves on our close-knit community and aim to know every student by name and story. In an essay of no more than 500 words, please introduce yourself as you would to your future Olin classmates.
Below is my essay. Please feel free to give me advice in the content or the usage of words. Thanks a lot!
In my conception, customer analysis is a quantitative analysis for customers based on data and market research. My immediate career plan is to put to practice what I've learned at Olin, when I start work in a consulting company. I would be able to help customers evaluate their business plans and develop a market strategy by aggregating and synthesizing massive amounts of data.
I am Huang Shiyun and this is my story about how I find my path to my future.
I have been unclear for years on where my path would take me. From a professional piano learner to an athletic and inquisitive college student, I finally learn from my undergraduate experiences that my desire is to pursue further study in the area of financial data processing.
Started when I was four, I began playing the piano and after being selected by a famous piano profession in China, becoming a professional pianist was the path I had planned. However, I gave up on piano even though I passed the exam into affiliated primary school Central Conservatory of Music when I was 12. The major reason behind why I chose to stop was because students who were focused on arts took fewer literary classes. Along with me mainly focused on genres which involved work by Bach, it took away the flexibility and variety to encounter other fields. I soon know that piano was not my best career choice, therefore I chose to keep it as a hobby and return to an ordinary high school to study science.
Afterwards, I excelled on the college entrance exam and ranked top 1.4% among 720,000 students in my province. When it came to choosing my major, I was limited to accounting although I chose finance originally. To find my real interest, I felt I need to learn more about finance and economy, so I audited many classes at Peking University including Chinese Economy by Justin Lin, Game Theory, Basic Psychology and the History of Buddhism in China. I came to realize my interest was in the Chinese financial system after auditing Professor Lin's class. With limited channels of capital raising, the Chinese financial system has yet to hit maturity to balance out the labor-intensive small firms,which have a great comparative advantage in the world. This drawback is enlarging the wage gap in China as bigger firms have greater chances to raise money from banks. Thus, I am eager to learn how a perfect financial market works by continuing my study in America.
Another reason I choose to study in US is that US universities think highly of sport ability. In China, I seldom had advantage over others when receiving scholarship even though I won many prizes as member of my university's badminton team and swimming team. I believe it is important for me to choose a university with similar values.
1. In one or two sentences, please describe your immediate career plans upon graduation from Olin.
2. At Olin, we pride ourselves on our close-knit community and aim to know every student by name and story. In an essay of no more than 500 words, please introduce yourself as you would to your future Olin classmates.
Below is my essay. Please feel free to give me advice in the content or the usage of words. Thanks a lot!
In my conception, customer analysis is a quantitative analysis for customers based on data and market research. My immediate career plan is to put to practice what I've learned at Olin, when I start work in a consulting company. I would be able to help customers evaluate their business plans and develop a market strategy by aggregating and synthesizing massive amounts of data.
I am Huang Shiyun and this is my story about how I find my path to my future.
I have been unclear for years on where my path would take me. From a professional piano learner to an athletic and inquisitive college student, I finally learn from my undergraduate experiences that my desire is to pursue further study in the area of financial data processing.
Started when I was four, I began playing the piano and after being selected by a famous piano profession in China, becoming a professional pianist was the path I had planned. However, I gave up on piano even though I passed the exam into affiliated primary school Central Conservatory of Music when I was 12. The major reason behind why I chose to stop was because students who were focused on arts took fewer literary classes. Along with me mainly focused on genres which involved work by Bach, it took away the flexibility and variety to encounter other fields. I soon know that piano was not my best career choice, therefore I chose to keep it as a hobby and return to an ordinary high school to study science.
Afterwards, I excelled on the college entrance exam and ranked top 1.4% among 720,000 students in my province. When it came to choosing my major, I was limited to accounting although I chose finance originally. To find my real interest, I felt I need to learn more about finance and economy, so I audited many classes at Peking University including Chinese Economy by Justin Lin, Game Theory, Basic Psychology and the History of Buddhism in China. I came to realize my interest was in the Chinese financial system after auditing Professor Lin's class. With limited channels of capital raising, the Chinese financial system has yet to hit maturity to balance out the labor-intensive small firms,which have a great comparative advantage in the world. This drawback is enlarging the wage gap in China as bigger firms have greater chances to raise money from banks. Thus, I am eager to learn how a perfect financial market works by continuing my study in America.
Another reason I choose to study in US is that US universities think highly of sport ability. In China, I seldom had advantage over others when receiving scholarship even though I won many prizes as member of my university's badminton team and swimming team. I believe it is important for me to choose a university with similar values.