Georgetown says that they admit 10-20% of their transfer students each year. In the last 3 years, the transfer acceptance rate has been below 15%. The general admissions office handles transfer admissions for McDonough, and they don’t seem to have separate stats on getting into the business school specifically. Georgetown also considers your high school record and SAT or ACT test results.
Have you considered Columbia’s School of General Studies? It’s sort of made for students like you - that is a school that would value your work experience and your story. The acceptance rate is somewhere around 23-24%.
If you were asking me, my answer would be based on my personal preferences and personality. I love liberal arts colleges - I like their emphasis on undergraduate education and on integrating several different parts of the curriculum. I like smaller class sizes and discussion based classes. I love the social sciences - I like writing papers and engaging with material from a social scientist’s perspective. I’d have the option to take classes like Behavioral Economics, Urban Economics, Global Capitalism since 1920 and Economic Poverty and Inequality - and examine how economics and economic policy affects the lives of people (which is how I’d be interested in it). I love math, and particularly the application of statistics and math to solve human problems, which economics uses heavily. The quirky intellectual intensity of Swarthmore sounds attractive to me. So I, personally - were I 18 again - would rather study economics at Swarthmore than finance at NYU.
I think that’s one thing to keep in mind. The schools themselves are very different - NYU is going to be far more pre-professional. At Stern, you will be around lots of graduate students and undergrads, in bigger classes, with the classes much more focused on applied topics. But moreover, the areas themselves are very different. Economics is a social science. It has elements that are directly applicable to business, but it’s still a social science. Do you want to study economics? Given your interests, I’d say it sounds like a good fit for you - especially with interests in economics, the financial side of politics, and nonprofits.
Swarthmore also does actually offer a class in financial accounting through the economics department, so they may take your Financial & Management Accounting class for credit. The rest of your classes shouldn’t be an issue.
Swarthmore is a small liberal arts college where the overwhelming majority of students are traditional-aged college students that come straight out of high school. They don’t seem to have any specific programs for non-traditional students, even as many of Swat’s peers do. So I’m not sure whether or not they would put an emphasis on your work experience or give you a boost for it. I would imagine it would depend on how you told the story.