Is MIT Sloan a bat fit for those with non-STEM/Humanities Backgrounds?
I'm currently working with an admissions consultant atm. I have a high GPA from an ivy league undergrad, solid f500 WE in marketing w/ progression, decent ECs, and a 740 GMAT. However, my consultant told me not to apply to MIT Sloan because even if I got in, it wouldn't be a good fit given my undergrad major in English. I didn't take any quant classes as an undergrad, and only recently took stats at a community college. No calc. I never even actually took pre-calc either b/c of the way my HS did math.
My consultant told me MIT loves former engineers and STEM majors, and I'd feel "marginalized" and left out by being a non-STEM person. Apparently the coursework is extremely quant heavy. And most resources are geared toward former engineers looking to get into management? Also, he said I wouldn't be able to leverage the full MIT campus as a non-STEM person, like I would with, say UChicago or Kellogg. And it'd be more difficult to relate to my peers or form a network given they are STEM-heavy folks.
What do you think? I'm applying to the other M7s besides Stanford. My career goal is general management. Thanks!
It's a bad fit if you're not a fucking geed. Like like the NF Institute of Technology
No calc? Never???!!! I'd say no. MBA is super easy relative to engineering, but I imagine (I certainly hope so) you'll certainly need some advanced statistics to get through MIT's MBA program. Advanced Statistics requires Calculus. Unless you have the capability to learn calculus very quickly, then definitely no I'd say.
well, for MIT Sloan calc and micro-econ BEFORE you start is a requirement. So, if you want to apply, you should get yourself enrolled in these classes now. If you apply without these pre-reqs, and you do get accepted, your acceptance will be contingent on finishing these courses before you matriculate.
That said, the curriculum is similar to other MBAs, but you only have 1 semester of required courses before you get into electives. And it's not necessary for you to pick a major or concentration, so you can choose courses that interest you.
Fitwise, you have to visit to see for yourself, but i didn't think so. i did their ambassadors program (the full day visit) and of the people I had coffee with they were pretty typical b-school students - ex-consultants, bankers, etc. One girl was even an undergrad art history major! They put you in sections you take all your required courses with, and they're engineered (no pun intended) to have a diverse group of students, so you'll have people to lean on. The bigger distinctive cultural identifier is their focus on entrepreneurship, which is very much ingrained in the Sloan DNA. If you want to do typical post-MBA jobs (banking, consulting, F500 rotational programs), you will definitely find peers interested in the same thing and good recruiting, but typically there are a lot of students ready to start their own thing, and plenty of teams of co-founders coming out of Sloan + engineering. If that doesn't interest you at all, you might feel a bit out of place.
Honestly, I think your consultant sounds kind of shitty. Sloan is really high on my target list, I've talked to 4 or 5 current students at length, a Sloan student interns at my fund, and none of this is true. TBH, I don't know if Sloan is right for you, but you should find a better consultant. If you got a 740, I imagine you got at least a 48Q on your GMAT, which means you can handle it, but you do NEED to take calc and micro before you go.
I heard Bruce Wayne fit in pretty well at Sloan
Whatever, he got in because of family ties and the whole orphan thing. Also, the only reason he fit in is because of the money he inherited and his hand to hand fighting skills. Pretty easy to be the cool one when you can get all of your friends drunk and beat the shit out of everyone they mouth off to. Honestly, I think that goofy mouth asshole hacking his account really did some serious damage to Sloan's reputation on the street.
Hm wasn't aware hand to hand fighting skills were an easy way to get into Sloan- will keep this in mind when applying to business schools
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