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Description
The Deferred MBA has specific requirements. Admissions committees are going to be assessing your trajectory rather than your professional background, which means that your application has to do something harder than a traditional MBA application: prove leadership potential, intellectual horsepower, and career clarity from internships, campus leadership, and research alone. Having served on the Booth admissions committee, I've seen exactly what separates the admit from the thousands of high-GPA, high-GMAT seniors who look identical on paper. This package is built around helping you stand out from the thousands of qualified seniors who will be competing for these limited spots. It is intended for applicants at U.S. or international universities with strong academics (typically 3.5+ GPA) within eligibility windows for deferred programs (currently enrolled undergraduates or current master's students without full-time work experience). Humanities and non-traditional majors welcome — deferred programs actively seek them. *Not ready to apply this cycle? Ask about the Junior-Year Runway session. This is a profile-building and test-strategy plan that converts fully into any tier in this package*
What you'll get from this package
Deep-dive intake session to create your differentiated positioning and story
Advice on school selection across the Deferred MBA programs
Unlimited essay drafts and reviews for every school in your package
Resume edits that convert your internship and campus-roles into adcom-ready impact statements
Recommender strategy and coaching
School-specific mock interviews
Additional details
Coaching delivered via live sessions and .
Deferred programs are among the most selective in graduate education. If you complete your full engagement (3+ schools) and don't receive an offer anywhere, you'll earn a credit toward a future Comprehensive MBA Campaign with me: $500 for 3–4 school campaigns, $1,000 for 5+ school campaigns — valid for four years, exactly the window when you'd be reapplying with work experience behind you. This way, your investment in this process is never wasted: the self-knowledge, narrative, and materials we build together become the foundation of your future application.
Services included:
Recommendations
Interviews
Networking Strategy
School Selection
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
General Exploration
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Editing
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Joined May 2024
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Top 5 Leland Coach 2026 | 200+ M7 Admits | $5MM+ in scholarships
🏆 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.
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