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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MLV" data-source="post: 288051" data-attributes="member: 36138">Not sure what each school will require, and I've been out of the loop for a while now. I would literally pick up the phone and have a conversation with the admission departments of my target schools and stop speculating on this forum. When you speak to them, make sure to play up your CorpDev experience - universities have thousands of applicants that check all the math boxes but extremely few ones that know about finance per se, let alone M&A. If you can speak to the screening analysis that you do in your job pre-acquiring a business (key metrics, potential synergies, whatever you look at), M&A process and execution, and integration post-merger, I suspect a lot of universities will want to have you in their programs (especially if your company is highly reputable and acquisitive - don't be afraid to drop names of any deals you've announced). They'll probably be more lenient on formal requirements if they decide to make a push for you, or offer attractive scholarships to offset (to a degree) any costs that they'll make you incur to get said pre-reqs. Remember the whole admissions process is a two-way street - you have to be an attractive candidate, but they also have to be an attractive program for you (only then can they actually get solid candidates). Again, I was in a similar situation and something similar happened to me. DM me if you have any other questions.</blockquote>