Faisal Khan
5.0
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Top 5 Leland Coach 2026 | 200+ M7 Admits | $5MM+ in scholarships
52,530 min coached
1,033 followers
Supercoach
Admissions Committee at Chicago Booth
Works at MBA Prep School
Successful clients at
Available Friday at 2:00 AM UTC
May 1st, 2026 Capacity Update: Now accepting R1 2026 applicants! Have capacity for 3-4 comprehensive package clients. I do not work with more than 5-6 comprehensive package clients in any round to ensure I can provide timely, customized, and high quality feedback for my clients. If scheduling a call, please send me your resume, any test scores, and your 3 dream schools. I look forward to speaking with you!
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Faisal's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $345/hr
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Is the MBA Still Worth It? The Real ROI in an AI-Disrupted World
May 13 at 7:00 PM UTC
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Getting Into a Top MBA Program: Strategies for Success
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MBA Application Sprint (September 30-October 2) Kickoff
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60 Days From MBA Deadlines: What You Should be Focused On
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Get Started on Your Deferred MBA Panel: Actionable Tips from Experts
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Faisal’s MBA Qualifications
Coaches professionally
100+ people coached for MBA
Faisal has helped clients get into these schools:
🏆 Selected as one of the Top 5 Coaches on Leland 🏆 During my time inside the admissions office at Chicago Booth, I learned a hard truth that drives my work today. There is a massive gap between being qualified for an MBA and actually getting admitted. Most of you are qualified for admissions to one of the top business schools in the world. You have the grades and the work experience (or internships, in the case of Deferred appicants). But for the last 17 years, my job has been to help applicants move from the 'qualified' pile to the 'accepted' pile. I do that by helping you strip away the generic business jargon, find your core story, and build a narrative that actually sticks in the memory of an admissions officer. As a member of AIGAC, I’m constantly talking to schools to understand what they are looking for this specific cycle. For MBA applicants, the bar is incredibly high because you are selling potential, not just history. My goal is to help you figure out how to prove that potential.
Faisal can help with:
Application Strategy
Cover Letters
Ding Analysis
Editing
Essays
Financial Aid & Scholarships
General Exploration
Interviews
Networking Strategy
Recommendations
Resume
School Selection
Secondary Review
Supplementary Materials
Testing & Assessments
Waitlist Strategy
About Faisal
🏆 Selected as one of the Top 5 Coaches on Leland 🏆 As part of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Admissions team, I reviewed hundreds of applications and learned what distinguished the successful candidates from those who were merely qualified for admission. I also obtained my MBA from Booth and have professional experiences in management consulting, tech, and the healthcare sectors. My focus in each sector was always marketing and strategy, helping each business stand out from its competition. Along the way, as I began helping friends and acquaintances gain admission to their top choice programs, I realized I had a passion for teasing out a person's story to highlight what separated them from the herd. I dove in to making admissions consulting a bigger part of my life, and have never looked back! I spend the bulk of my time with my clients helping create a framework for their stories. Where have you succeeded? Where have you failed? What excites you? What's different about you? My clients describe the work that I do as part admissions consulting and part executive coaching. The skills I impart help not only with creating an MBA application, but also with refining career goals and objectives. A lot of coaches promise to deliver, but you can verify my claims by looking at what former clients have said about me on Leland and at https://poetsandquants.com/consultant/faisal-khan/?pq-directory-type=consultant, where I have testimonials from clients admitted to all Top 10 schools and with over $5MM in combined scholarship grants, including full rides. As an MBA coach, it's not enough to simply have graduated from a top business school. As an active member of AIGAC - our global, governing body - I make sure to stay in close communication with the admissions teams at all of the top business schools. This is how a coach ensures they have the most up-to-date information about each business school's goals and objectives for the year, and can in turn help you craft an application that speaks to these.
Why do I coach?
I have lived, traveled, or worked on six continents and have engaged with MBA candidates from all corners of the world. Along the way, I've learned that every person has a fascinating story to tell, even if the language and style they use to tell it differs. I derive energy from helping others communicate what sets them apart in a unique and compelling way.
Work Experience
Consultant
MBA Prep School
June 2013 - Present
Consultant
Story Ventures
January 2010 - June 2013
Senior Consultant
PwC
1998 - 2005
Education
Chicago Booth
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
Admissions Committee Experience
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Bachelor's Degree, Systems Engineering
80 Reviews
Overall Rating
5.0
Knowledge
5.0
Value
4.9
Responsiveness
4.9
Supportiveness
5.0
Faisal has helped clients get into these schools: