Ms. Sassy

You bring to the game an impressive set of stats and work experience along with a passion to help others in the business of health. That should bode well for pretty good odds of admission at MIT Sloan which is one of the most selective of the business schools. Your GRE is comfortably within the class range and your GPA in two tough majors leave no doubt about your academic ability. The fact that you have worked for a Fortune 10 company which obviously has a selective hiring process is also a good sign. You need to make clear your contributions at work and whether you have been promoted once or twice in the five-plus years you have been at the firm. Do that and make sure your recommenders do a good job and I think you should get into MIT Sloan. That said, I always need to remind folks that when they apply to a highly selective school, admissions can be quite random, much more so than officials want to admit. That’s because roughly 80% of the applicant pool is qualified to get in but MIT Sloan accepts only 14% of its applicants. That is why it is extremely important to apply to a set of MBA programs in the event that you just don’t make the cut at one or two of your target schools. Columbia and NYU Stern help the mix but you may want to consider a few other Top Ten schools, including UVA Darden, Duke Fuqua, and Michigan Ross.