Comprehensive MBA Application Package — Land Your Dream Program

Comprehensive MBA Application Package — Land Your Dream Program

Offered by Alissa O.

Stanford MBA Reapplicant Success l Expert in Nontraditional Paths

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Studied at McDonough School of Business (Georgetown)

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Package Description:

This package is built for top applicants looking to maximize their chances of acceptance by getting help end-to-end with their applications. This package includes the following, but feel free to adapt based on your unique situation and goals: 1. Initial Kickoff and Planning Session: You'll do a kick-off session where you dive deep on your background, goals, experience, potential recommenders, aspirations, and more. From there, you'll build a custom MBA plan that helps you stay on top of your application. 2. School Selection: You will work with your coach to put together a list of best-fit schools based on your profile, goals, and preferences. 3. Application Strategy: You will talk in-depth with your coach about your points of differentiation as an applicant and the best ways for those to shine through your application. 4. MBA Resume: You'll rework your resume and ensure it is dripping with achievement. 5. Recommender Selection: You will talk through all of your potential recommender options, pros and cons of each of them, and then build a plan for engaging with them that leads to the best combination of recommenders possible. 6. Recommender Preparation: You will work together with your coach to build out your own recommender prep docs. Those will be polished and handed off to your recommenders with plenty of time before deadlines. 7. Recommender Support: If needed, your coach can even work directly with your recommenders to ensure they are on the right track. They can read through and provide feedback on their recommendations to ensure they have a strong finished product. 8. Essay Brainstorming: You will do a deep dive into your background and experiences with your coach, pulling out themes, perspectives, and qualities that differentiate you. You'll wrestle with various narratives and ensure you are approaching each essay in the best way possible. 9. Essay Editing: After crafting your narrative, your coach will polish and edit until the essays are ready for submission. As many rounds of feedback and edits included to ensure you have the right final product. 10. Activities & Interests and Awards & Honors: You'll work with your coach to select the right extracurriculars, awards, and honors. Those will be polished together. 11. Final Review: Your coach will review and perform final edits on all your application materials, ensuring everything works together and is in tip-top shape before submission. This includes your past work experience, supplemental essays, etc. 12. Interview Preparation: When you receive interview invites, you'll run through mock interviews with your coach to ensure you are prepared and confident. 13. Waitlist Strategy (if applicable) — If you're waitlisted, your coach will guide you through creating a targeted action plan to improve your chances of admission. To summarize, you are drafting a world-class coach onto your team to help you with every step of this competitive process. They will check in regularly, share honest/constructive feedback freely, and ensure you are on the right track.


What you'll get from this package

A clear application timeline and plan, to ensure you stay on track and hit MBA deadlines

A polished resume that highlights your education, experience, leadership, skills & interests in a clear and compelling way

Strong recommender prep documents that you'll pass off to your recommenders to ensure they write world-class recommendations for you

Compelling essays that are differentiated, personalized, and thoughtful — tailored to each school you decide to apply to

A polished final application that you can feel proud of submitting and sharing with the admissions team

Mock interviews that leave you feeling prepared and confident

Hopefully, you'll feel more introspective, more excited about your goals, more sure of who you are, and more ready to make an impact on the world!


Additional details

Coaching delivered via live sessions and .

Refund Policy

You are eligible to switch your coach any time during the first two weeks to ensure you have found the right fit for you. Comprehensive package services are limited to the schools and application round selected at the beginning of the engagement. Additional expectations or terms of engagement may be provided by coaches (e.g. expected response times, etc.).

Services included:

Financial Aid & Scholarships

Editing

Recommendations

Interviews

Ding Analysis

Waitlist Strategy

School Selection

Secondary Review

Application Strategy

Essays

Resume


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Alissa O.

Offered by Alissa O.

Joined January 2026

Stanford MBA Reapplicant Success l Expert in Nontraditional Paths

I’ve been on both sides of the MBA admissions process, including getting rejected one year and accepted the next, and that experience fundamentally shapes how I coach. I earned my MBA from Stanford GSB after initially being turned down, and I know firsthand that success isn’t about becoming “more impressive,” but about becoming clearer, more honest, and more intentional in how you tell your story. I especially enjoy working with nontraditional candidates who have taken risks, pursued unconventional paths, or are charting their own way forward. Before business school, I worked at McKinsey & Company and later led large-scale operations at Rocket Internet and Uber across multiple countries. Since then, I’ve founded and scaled mission-driven companies, including the country's largest worker cooperative, raised capital, served on boards, and won a Tony as a Broadway producer. I coach applicants to articulate not just what they’ve done, but why it matters, how they think, and who they are as leaders. My approach is candid, strategic, and deeply personal. I help you identify the through-line in your experiences, pressure-test your goals, and craft essays that sound like you, not a consultant-written version of you. I’m particularly well-suited to working with nontraditional candidates, reapplicants, and those navigating career pivots, because I’ve lived those paths myself.

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Starting at $8,000

20h+ of coaching

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