Success Stories – Haijing

• Background:
  • Gender: Female
  • Ethnicity: Chinese
  • College: Barnard College/Columbia University
  • Major: BA in Urban Design
  • Employment: YCLOSET – a women’s clothing rental service
  • Future Career: Fashion Designer

• Statistics (Are they competitive?):
  • GPA weighted
  • GPA unweighted 3.65/4.0
  • Honors: Sylvia Kopald Selekman award for Economics
  • GRE
  • ACT
  • AP
  • School Rank
• Extracurriculars Activities (Are they compelling?)
  • Leadership:
    • Founder and vice-president of Redefine, a non-profit designed to promote critical thinking skills, self-independence and social responsibility
  • Community Service:
    • Led a program to discuss socially and politically sensitive gender issues

• Common Theme(s): Academically competitive, fashion industry

• Intended Study: Master in Business Administration (MBA)

• Accepted: Withdraw prior to acceptance due to great job offer

Haijing graduated from Barnard/Columbia and returned to China after graduation. Haijing is a confident, self-driven and sophisticated fashion buyer with a proven record to bring international business to a clothing start-up company. She received an amazing job offer before the MBA announcements were sent.