Peer Review Requested

Your stats are the average for most of the schools you applied to with the exception of Standford, which has a higher gpa. I think you should get into at least one of the schools you applied if your essays and recs are good. I do think HBS is a reach though.

Agreed -- HBS and Stanford were the reaches.

I think my main concern now is that I'm coming from a publishing company, as opposed to something in consulting or banking. Granted, I wrote at length about how I lead team cross functionally, increased revenue through new initiatives, transformed departments in particular ways, blah, blah blah, but at the end of the day, do schools really want some guy from a book company?

I think there are a very diverse set of people in business school, ranging from the usual finance people to former engineers, teachers, etc. However, I think coming from a non-quant background you will need to prove that you have the ability to do well in bschool classes.

How well did you do in quant classes in undergrad? Did you even take any quant classes? Also you mentioned that you much better on the verbal part of the GMAT than the quant. Judging by your decent score you probably still did alright on the quant part. But will the skewed scores be taken by the adcom as an indicator that you're not the best candidate for bschool? I think these factors will influence the adcom's decision.

Since you already applied it's too late to change any of these factors. I think you should just relax and focus on preparing for interviews and see what happens.