hello stella,

You definitely have great stats (as you mentioned). I don't know much about the applicant pool partly because I am not from a typical feeder industry. I think you may be over estimating the number of accountants at top Bschool. Accounts love accounting which does not always require an MBA. Sure there are some but a lot of accountants just shoot for a CPA and CMA to continue their accounting profession instead of the expensive MBA route. I could be making bad assumptions here (off of a small sample size) but I've visited 6 schools (5 in top 15) and interacted with a lot of students but only met 1 or 2 students who were accountants.

As a accountant I think we have to prove we are more than just number crunchers following a bunch of rules to the nth degree. Bschool is more about teamwork and leading others. You can definitely stand out with your background but approach it from the context of how will it help the schools? What can you offer the classroom, fellow students, and career oriented clubs? Setting yourself apart is more about knowing who you are, what the school is all about, and how can you contribute to the school.

I'm no expert about this but I figured I'd just give my 2cents. Good luck.
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You have incredible stats. 760 gmat and 3.9GPAs? Work experience wise I think forensic accounting will just be viewed as Big 4 public accounting experience, meaning it is silver-level experience, meaning not horrible but not great.

If you can shape a good story, have solid career goals, explain the why mba, why this school, etc...basically if you can execute the whole application process well, I think you should be focusing on the top 10 schools. and not waste your time with anything beyond that. Harvard and Stanford will be reaches (as they are for 90% of the populace) given your work exp, but every other top 10 school is definitely do-able imo.