How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

During my college search, the Wisconsin School of Business quickly became one of my top choices. After looking into a number of schools across the country, Madison's business program stood out amongst the rest.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

The University of Wisconsin—Madison is well recognized across the country and provides affordable, top- notch education. The diverse campus offers endless opportunities in and out of the classroom.

What are your future career aspirations?

I hope to work for a charitable foundation based in the United States to help it grow and develop by marketing its cause across the world.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

Madison is a beautiful city that’s always bustling. Besides the campus life, I love the lakes, the capitol building and the surrounding square, the farmers’ market, State Street, and the fun local restaurants.

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

If it’s sunny, you’ll find me reading in the outdoor court yard. However, when the weather turns cold I enjoy grabbing a cup of coffee and studying in the Capital Café.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus?

I’m a member of AIESEC, a student organization that focuses on providing a global learning experience through international exchange.

Have you studied abroad? If so, where?

Not yet, but I’m planning to spend a semester in Spain to submerge myself in the Spanish culture and language in order to become a fluent Spanish speaker.

Have you held any internships? If so, where?

No, but I’m hoping to go on an internship abroad through AIESEC this summer.

What are your hobbies?

I love running, reading, baking, and traveling.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

One day, after life in the fast-paced business world, I hope to own a quaint little bakery in a town along the eastern coast that specializes in breakfast pastries.

How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

Being from the Twin Cities area, the Wisconsin School of Business has always been on my radar. I had heard great things about the program from alumni and friends.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

I believe in a Wisconsin BBA degree – I think it speaks highly of our school’s caliber of students. Wisconsin attracts top talent and sets up its graduates with a solid foundation for success.

What are your future career aspirations?

I’d like to work in the marketing industry in a brand or product management role. What excites me about the field is the ability to champion a product, brand, or product line from start to finish.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

Anywhere along the lake, State Street, or Bascom Hill.

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

Second floor of the Business Library or the third floor.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus?

I am the President and Founder of Madison Business Mentoring (MBM). I’m also the Vice President of Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) and the VP-Marketing of BBA Gov. I also serve as a student ambassador for myBiz, and am involved in b.Line Magazine and Delta Sigma Pi.

Have you studying abroad, if so, where?

I will be studying abroad in Hong Kong spring of 2012 at the HKUST Business School.

Have you held any internships, if so, where?

This past summer, I was a Commercial Leadership Program (CLP) intern with GE Healthcare. Previously, I was a marketing and online marketing intern for two web-based firms.

What are your hobbies?

I love reading, playing tennis, and spending time with friends. I also enjoy painting and playing the piano.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

I’ve been pranked live on the radio before.

Graduation Date:

(May) 2009

Majors:

Accounting and Real Estate (and Urban Land Economics)

Internships:

General Mills Financial Analyst Intern

Current Job:

Completing General Electric's Financial Management Program

Major future plans:

Be the best Badger I can be… and continue to pursue my career.

“Every day I apply something that I learned from Madison's excellent faculty, and the staff at the Business Career Center was pivotal in helping me find my early opportunities out in the working world.”

Hobbies:

4-H, showing cows, spending time outside on our farm, Spanish, music, and hanging out with my friends and sisters

Student Organizations:

Institute of Management Accountants, Badger Dairy Club, Spanish Club, Association of Women in Agriculture

Job Aspirations:

I hope to work in private accounting, preferably for a business related to agriculture.

“The prestigious business school was my main reason for coming here. However, the fact that Wisconsin is also known for its dairy science program, which was my backup major if I decided that business was not for me, also helped me choose.”

Internships:

SIFE co-founder and president; CIEE Program Analyst, Seville, Spain

Current Job:

Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn, responsible for the monetization platform. I focus on global online premium product conversion, payment collection and product delivery across LinkedIn's businesses.

Major future plans:

Working on two startups in my spare time. One develops mobile applications for iPhone and Android, the other is focused on helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into real businesses. I look forward to starting and running my own business full-time in the near future.

How did the Wisconsin School of Business help you to accomplish your career goals?

WSoB helped give me a good educational foundation to get into a product management role. Because of its affiliation with the Center for Brand and Product Management and UW's great computer science program, Intuit recruited at WSoB. I was able to interview with Intuit and secure a job post graduation as part of their leadership development program. This served as an introduction to the software industry and helped me find a good fit for my passion to be creative and build businesses at the same time as a product manager. Now my energy is starting to focus on personal start up efforts.

UW has a great and active alumni group in northern California called the Bay Area Badgers. This group helped me connect and enjoy games with other fellow Badgers. Another group called Badger Entrepreneurship Forum is helping UW alumni in Silicon Valley connect and share their experiences in starting companies. I'm not aware of any other public university whose alumni share such a tight post-graduation bond. It helps a ton when you're trying to find that next job or get funding for that awesome start-up idea you have.

How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

The PEOPLE Program gave me the great opportunity of taking summer seminar/classes in different majors every summer of my high school career. The summer before my senior year in high school I studied at the Wisconsin School of Business. The classes were mainly informational sessions about the different majors and careers in business. This was my first exposure to Grainger and to the Wisconsin School of Business.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

After visiting several universities I just couldn’t find any that called to my personality quite the way UW-Madison did. Here, at UW, I found that students seemed to have a great balance between social and academic lives. Balance, at the moment, was very important to me. The ability to have a social life, play sports, and study in classrooms taught by some of the best caliber professors in the nation as well as highly competent students seemed ideal.

What are your future career aspirations?

I am hoping to do an internship in an investment banking firm this summer and work either in business banking or investment banking upon graduation.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

State Street, the Capitol and the Terrace can seem like very simple locations at times and, at others, they can be the most alive and fun venues in the nation.

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

My favorite place to study in Grainger Hall would have to be the tables on the second floor of the library, all the way in the back next to the windows. Studying there early in the morning or at night can be very relaxing. From there you get all the natural light and you can see all the hustle and bustle between classes that makes this such an awesome college town.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus?

At the moment, I am not an active member of any student organizations. However, my freshman year I co-founded a community service oriented student organization on campus. I also am a scholar of the PEOPLE Program, Academic Advancement Program and a non-active member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

Have you studied abroad? If so, where?

I studied abroad Fall of 2009 in Paris, France. I took courses at both ESCP Europe and Université Paris IV – Paris Sorbonne.

Have you held any internships? If so, where?

I interned with M&I Bank summer 2010 with their Business Banking division. I also interned during summer 2006 at the Dane County Centro Hispano.

What are your hobbies?

I love playing soccer, going Latin dancing with my girlfriend on the weekends. I also like watching movies and just going out for a drink with my friends.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

I have never lived in one place longer than five years. I have moved around my whole life—from Mexico to the Dominican Republic, around the Dominican, from there to the US, and here I’ve moved around Wisconsin. I have also lived abroad in Paris, France. It’s made me a very open-minded and outgoing person because every single place we moved to was very different from the last in almost every aspect of a daily life.

How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

I graduated from high school in Germany. I knew that I was going to major in business, so once I decided on Wisconsin, it was obvious that I was going to apply for the business school.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

I heard good things about Wisconsin while I was in Germany. I also liked what I saw from researching online both the school and the city, so I thought that it would be a good fit and applied. And the reason I wanted to study in the U.S. in the first place is because I love new challenges and changes. I lived in Europe all my life; I went to a boarding school in China for one year in 11th grade to experience China, but I had never been to the US before. So I figured that studying here would be a great experience. And it really is!

What are your future career aspirations?

My career aspirations are not really limited to a certain major. Instead, I want to have a career that is always changing and that always offers me new challenges. I want to be surrounded by very smart people from whom I can learn every day. And I want a career that allows me to use my international background and that exposes me to different cultures and people.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

The Terrace and Bascom Hill. (I hate the climb, though!)

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

The library.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus?

Collegiate Entrepreneurial Organization, Investment Banking Club, Wisconsin Consulting Club, Delta Sigma Pi

Have you studied abroad? If so, where?

I am basically abroad by studying here, so, no.

Have you held any internships? If so, where?

I am interning right now at Robert W. Baird & Company as a Private Wealth Management Intern.

What are your hobbies?

Soccer, working out, reading, skiing (have not done that in way too long), piano, and random YouTube videos.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

I want to save enough money to start one or even multiple schools in China for kids from families that cannot afford an education for their children. I know people in China who are in such situations and as soon as I have the means, I would love to help them.

Hobbies:

Basketball, Frisbee, piano, ping-pong, hanging out with friends, reading, being outdoors, working out, and unicycling

Student Organizations:

Spanish Club

Job Aspirations:

I plan to someday be a financial planner and perhaps even start my own business.

“I enjoy the both the challenging academic coursework in combination with the availability of so many fun extracurricular activities.”

How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

I came to college undecided about my major and realized I had a strong interest in business with help from the Exploration Center for Majors and Careers. Ignite the Potential helped me learn about the Wisconsin School of Business and made me even more excited to apply.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

I grew up with the University of Wisconsin and like to tease that my alumni parents brainwashed me as a child; however, I made this decision completely on my own. I love the city, the campus, the prestige, the value, the opportunities, but most importantly, I easily realized I belonged here from my reaction the moment I received my acceptance letter.

What are your future career aspirations?

I want to be a business leader working for a company that allows me to make our world a better place in some way. I want to drive improvements and work with others and to learn from them.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

Living near State Street and the Capitol is amazing. I love the great restaurants, the farmers’ market, and seeing other walkers and bikers. I also enjoy the Terrace in warm weather and call Grainger my second home.

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

I won’t give away my favorite, secret study space, but I will say that I appreciated having an office in the Undergraduate Lounge through my role in the BBA Student Government.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus? I stay very busy and am involved in a lot of activities:

• 10-11:Vice President of Programming for the newly formed Wisconsin BBA Student Government: I am responsible for student organizations, school-wide events, and marketing. In this role, I have orchestrated more than five initiatives this semester while giving underclassmen leadership roles and guiding them through their projects.
• Former Promotions Chair and Currently the Events Chair for the Underclassmen Outreach Committee: I am responsible for planning all the event details of Ignite the Potential.
• myBiz ambassador for Wisconsin School of Business Undergraduate Communications Group: I work with staff and some students to generate content for the Business School Blog and promote it to students.
• Undergraduate Program New Business Student Orientation Committee: I work with staff to improve the Business School Orientation by making it more fun for students and planning a third of the event.
• Finally, I was given the title Wisconsin BBA Ambassador because I help with Information sessions for prospective students, volunteer with Wisconsin Welcome Week, and worked on a team to create strategies to enhance community in the Wisconsin School of Business.

Have you studied abroad? If so, where?

Yes! I studied in Florence, Italy last summer and had an amazing experience. I lived in a historic, Tuscan villa with other students from Wisconsin and the University of Michigan. My classes allowed me to learn about Early Renaissance art history from a Florentine art historian on museum and church tours, as well as Italy’s influence on Shakespeare through visiting the cities where some plays were set.

Have you held any internships? If so, where?

This past summer I had a Marketing Internship with Ameriprise Financial in Minneapolis.

What are your hobbies?

I love dance. I seriously studied ballet ages 5-15 and competed on a national level with my high school’s varsity dance team. I still love watching dancing and may randomly bust a move if the inspiration hits me.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

This is a tough question! However, I will be honest and share a strange realization I have not told anyone: Even though I love being a Marketing and MHR major, my highest grade one semester was Managerial Accounting class (though not by too much). I did not expect it, but I really like learning about the tools business leaders use to make decisions. I hope I can use that knowledge and apply it to my chosen field of study.

Hobbies:

I love volleyball, basketball, and soccer. I also enjoy cooking and playing piano. I like relaxing with friends and watching movies.

Student Organizations:

DECA, b.Line Magazine – Website Editor, Greater University Tutoring Service – Conversational English Tutor

Job Aspirations:

I aspire to work in marketing in either product or brand management. My ultimate goal is to work for a professional sports organization such as the Green Bay Packers.

“Wisconsin is a top-tier public university that provides me with every opportunity to receive a great, well-rounded education that will prepare me for the real world of work. The campus is vibrant, fun, and attractive. At Wisconsin I learn from the best of the best, and my friends and classmates inspire me to work hard and achieve greatness.”

How did you hear about the Wisconsin School of Business?

I did research online to find some of the best public business schools in the country to apply to.

Why did you choose to pursue your degree at Wisconsin?

After speaking to the professors, seeing the campus and the beautiful city of Madison, I knew that UW-Madison was the right place for me!

What are your future career aspirations?

I will be going to work at Accenture in their Management Consulting Development Program. Beyond that I intend to come back for graduate school after a few years in the industry.

What are your favorite parts of Madison?

Camp Randall and the Terrace.

Where’s your favorite place to study in Grainger Hall?

The West Atrium.

What student orgs are you involved in both within the WSoB and around campus?

Treasurer, Senior Class of 2012 and currently on the committee to create the Wisconsin Idea Scholarship
Vice President of Development - Wisconsin Consulting Club
Past President - Ballroom Dance Association, UW-Madison

Have you studied abroad? If so, where?

I studied abroad for the Spring 2011 in Seville, Spain

Have you held any internships? If so, where?

I’ve interned at Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce and Ingersoll Rand.

What are your hobbies?

I love to dance specifically Latin and ballroom dancing. When I am not doing things with student organizations, I love to play sports and be outdoors.

What is one unique thing about yourself that no one would know?

I love extreme sports like skydiving and spelunking.

Hobbies:

I enjoy volunteering, playing golf and basketball, and watching movies with my friends.

Student Organizations:

Habitat for Humanity, DECA, a professional-level member of Wisconsin Consulting, VP ’14 and Community Relations Chair of the Madison Chapter of the Evans Scholarship, and BBA Gov.

Job Aspirations:

I plan to pursue a career in consulting, and, ultimately, I want to become the Chief Executive Officer for a company.

“When I was deciding what college to attend, I wanted a school that had my major, a great academic background, resources for students to utilize their full potential, and a feeling of home. I wanted it all, so it makes sense that I decided to attend Wisconsin. After all, ‘When you say Wisconsin…you’ve said it all.’”