MIT Sloan Admissions Tips

A recent Stratus Prep article listed 10 things that can help you monkeys get into MIT Sloan. The following admissions tips are from a Sloan Alum who has counseled other students on the MBA admissions process for top schools throughout the country. What do you think of these suggestions? Too cliche?


  1. Demonstrating leadership, entrepreneurial-ism and vision are essential to gaining acceptance to MIT Sloan.
  2. An ideal MIT Sloan candidate understands and embraces the four H’s: the Heart to strive, the Head to keep up, the Hands to get things done, and the Home to take risks in a supportive environment.
  3. Sloan MBA students are seeking the ultimate treasure chest of innovation-driven entrepreneurship, market disruption, and economic transformation.
  4. MIT Sloan prefers that MIT to be the candidate’s top choice for business school, in some sense they want it to be your only choice.
  5. Take into account how the acceptance rate affects your application. This past year, applications were up 35 percent, which translates to 6,000 applicants for 350 slots in the MBA program — an acceptance rate between 7 percent and 9 percent.
  6. Focus experiences and past successes on managerial skills, motivations, team work, leadership, grit, drive, and, entrepreneurship rather than on simple tactical skills.
  7. Think of the optional essay / additional information as mandatory.
  8. Give it to them again: perhaps another entrepreneurial example, or very specific reasons about why you chose MIT/Sloan/Kendall Square (Sloan’s home).
  9. Sloan is highly focused on organizational behavior, and the best and most successful essays I have read focus on just this.
  10. Remember to speak from the heart and how esprit de corps matters, more so when you’re pulling together the classic Sloan team for the start-up competition: the 19-year old undergraduate engineer, the French lawyer, the 33-year old African teacher, the Olympic rower and the woman who started the mountaineering business. After all, this is the type of company that is going to change the world.

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