Mr. Basketball Banker

Hi Mr. Basketball Banker, this is Donna Bauman with Stratus Admissions and I am happy to comment on your profile. I love the effort—kind of like spending those extra hours shooting extra free throws—here you are doing the coffee chat thing and exceeding recruiting expectations by landing yourself in ibanking from a non-target school. That kind of extra effort and results will impress adcom. HBS is looking to educate leaders to make a difference in the world—not create leaders—but educate them. I see a lot of leadership in your profile. Not too convinced that reading 2 books/month makes you an avid reader… but everything else I’m buying. I’d like to see you make more of the case for why you need the MBA as many make the move to PE directly from ibanking so when I think about what MORE I would want to know about you in relation to HBS it is why do you want that MBA? What problem(s) are you trying to solve where an MBA can help? Tell me more about healthcare and why that resonates with you? Is that where you seek growth equity opportunities? What kind of problems in healthcare (and no worries there are plenty of them) are you looking to solve? I’d like to see you share how bball has built a solid foundation and work ethic for you and how now you are pivoting to a new game! The GMAT is a little soft but for HBS and make no mistakes—this is a far out 3 pointer that you are attempting here—BUT if you can tell that what MORE in an interesting way I think you just might have the right stuff! Let me know if you want more insight from us at Stratus—we’d love to help you take your best shot!