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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.
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!
Coaching delivered via live sessions and .
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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Build a strong foundation for standout MBA applications.
Starting at $3605h+ of coaching
Build a strong foundation for standout MBA applications.
Starting at $3605h+ of coaching
Craft winning MBA essays through brainstorming, drafting, and editing
Starting at $3605h+ of coaching
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Joined September 2021
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Harvard MBA & MPP | Dual-Degree Coach | MBA Consultant 5 Years
As an alum of Harvard Business and Kennedy Schools, I navigated multiple graduate degree admissions processes. I’ve worked with candidates who have successfully applied to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT, and other top MBA programs. I started my career at Bain & Company and then worked in tech (biz ops and growth) before grad school. I have been closely involved in civic and public service opportunities including working at the US Treasury and serving as a State Delegate prior to school. While in my three-year MPP and MBA program, I worked in Venture Capital and Growth Equity investing at Norwest Venture Partners, Floodgate Ventures, and Summit Partners. I now run Growth Strategy @ Carta, a $7B tech co in Silicon Valley. I coach in my spare time because I love helping candidates distill their stories and present the best version of themselves to adcoms! When I applied, my partner was also interested in an MBA -- we wanted to maximize our chances of living in the same city during school, which led us to deeply research and contact admissions and alumni at all top 7 MBA programs to ensure we understood how we would be evaluated. After hundreds of hours of research myself, there is nothing I love more than being able to share that knowledge strategically & concisely with applicants. I particularly enjoy working with dual-degree candidates, candidates with public/non-profit sector experience and candidates interested in emerging tech and Venture Capital. As someone who applied with a partner, I can also speak to how various degree programs consider partner applications and strategy around managing dual-MBA families.
20h+ of coaching