Comprehensive MBA Application Package — Land Your Dream Program

Comprehensive MBA Application Package — Land Your Dream Program

Offered by Katie D.

Dual MBA/MPA | Stanford & Princeton | Knight-Hennessy

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Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Works at Lafayette Square Institute

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


Katie D.

Offered by Katie D.

Joined January 2026

Dual MBA/MPA | Stanford & Princeton | Knight-Hennessy

Hey there! I'm Katie—I earned dual MBA/MPA degrees at Stanford GSB and SPIA, and coach admissions for MBA, MPA, and fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students. I can't wait to meet you and learn more about how we can turn your dreams into achievable goals, together. I grew up in Tennessee, and got life-changing opportunities to gain a higher education through three fully-paid programs: the Jefferson Scholarship, the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, and Princeton SPIA's funded MPA program. I've successfully navigated admissions to multiple MBA and MPA programs, and have weighed virtually every combination of joint degree and fellowship program out there. I know how high-stakes these application processes can feel, and how important it is to develop an application and interview in a way that reflects what you uniquely bring to the table. Beyond my own experience, I've spent six years serving on scholarship and admissions selection committees. I've seen how reviewers read applications, what makes essays memorable, and how candidates can avoid common obstacles in the process. I've coached +20 students through every stage of the process—from preparing for standardized tests and identifying the right programs, to crafting compelling narratives and preparing for interviews that feel authentic. Beyond working in investment policy, I love exploring running routes through my new hometown of San Francisco, dabbling on the piano, playing tennis at the park up the street, and hosting dinner parties with my wife.

10+ people coached for MBA

Starting at $8,000

20h+ of coaching

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