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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 .
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:
Recommendations
Interviews
Ding Analysis
Waitlist Strategy
School Selection
Secondary Review
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Editing
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About me I've sat on the other side of the table: as an admissions interviewer for Kellogg School of Management, I've evaluated real candidates and know firsthand what separates an admit from a ding. I've coached 18+ clients through the MBA admissions process and into top-tier programs. Priority to LGBTQ+ and First Generation, and I'm open to working with clients inside and outside the U.S. Before coaching, I built a career that MBA programs love to see — Sales Strategy & Ops Associate at LinkedIn and Product Lead at GrubHub — so I can help you position your own story the way adcoms read it. I completed the "MMM" program at Kellogg, so I also hold an MS in Design Innovation from Northwestern and separately a BS from Tufts in Quantitative Economics and International Relations. What we can work on Strategy — school selection, application positioning, and how to frame your career narrative. The application — essay development and editing, resume translation (business resumes ≠ admissions resumes), and coaching your recommenders on what actually moves the needle. Interviews — prep grounded in how interviewers are actually trained to evaluate you, not generic question lists. How I work Direct and honest. I'll tell you if a school is a reach, if an essay draft isn't working, and where your profile is genuinely strong — because that's what gets you in.
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