My chances at HBS, GSB and Wharton

Let’s be real here… you definitely know you have a solid chance. Unless any one of us in here are admissions officers for the programs you mentioned, our guess will be as good as yours. Your GPA is definitely worth a double take, but if you have legitimate story behind it some admissions officers may look past it (again, our guess is as good as yours). Take the validation and understand you’re in a great position. If you really are worried, ask your senior managers who went to HBS/GSB about their path to an MBA. Look up their background on LinkedIn/other sites if you don’t want to have that conversation with them. Sounds like you’re expecting a good GMAT/solid essay/solid recs, so understand you’re in a good position

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I could totally understand where the OP is coming from. Similar background as OP, however I didn't go to T1 IB or HF. I see a lot of people I work with end up in M7 B school but, I always doubt myself as well given that I graduated from a extreme non target school with 3.5 gpa and prior to that I transfer from another school with 2.5 gpa. Honestly, I think op should just apply and see. Better than asking all the college kids on wso. I have definitely see the quality of wso user going down hill.

You’ve made several different posts for this across different forums on this site, give it a rest. Nobody here works in admissions. 

Awesome resume profile. Chances are looking good. 

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Got 770 on gmat. White male. ec includes board of non profit and ton of diversity work / recruiting help at the HF. Now at corp dev in the industry i used to cover. Trying to move into strategy post mba.

Your best chance is going to be Wharton, then Harvard, then Stanford.

I believe Wharton would be a 60%, Harvard 35%, and Stanford 15-20%

Stanford cares a lot more than others about GPA and they only have a few spots for the under 3.5 students and usually they are from Kenya or Somalia and are like a war refugee or something crazy

Harvard is going to look for an X factor type applicant as well, it sounds like you are a very typical applicant there minus the GPA so that takes you from 50/50 to 35 imo. I do think you may be able to do something very extraordinary that could give you that X factor.

Wharton is most forgiving of GPA or at least they have a lower Average GPA of the 3. You also have a highly quantitative background from what it sounds like. Depending on GMAT breakdown and specific coursework and grades I would say you have an above average chance at Wharton.

I was a MBA advisor at my university for a few years and this is just what I have gathered from knowing other profiles and seeing admits and rejections.

Good Luck!