Career goals
PLAN A: Join either the social sector leg of a consulting firms or the educational reform firms such as Education Pioneers, Bridgespan Group or other Ed-Tech start-ups.
More unique and more recently relevant to your background. Also, seems like you are more passionate about this path
Questions
Please suggest some schools (below Top20) where I would be a good fit.
I would take a look at Ross and Emory as well
After speaking to students/Adcoms from most of the schools I found that there are hardly any opportunities in the Non profit sector. I feel that the Adcoms will consider my post MBA employability as a hurdle and this might reduce my chances of an admit. Thus, I am confused whether I should make my Plan A as IT consultant and Plan B to enter the Social sector wing to make myself more employable. Please let me know if my understanding is correct.
This logic makes sense, but you can always restructure career goals to pursue mgmt consulting in the short term and then in the long term to move more into the non-profit advisory if you are worried. I think your current plan still has some legs so I would not definitely give up on it, there are def companies who hire people like you right out of MBA programs