Maximilian Lin

About Maximilian

My academic and professional journey has taken me through highly competitive university, postgraduate, MBA, and consulting selection processes across the UK, US, and Germany. At undergraduate level, I received offers from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and New York University. For master’s study, I received offers from Oxford, Cambridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. I ultimately completed my undergraduate degree at Oxford with First-Class honours and returned for an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology on a full scholarship. I was also admitted to the Wharton Deferred MBA programme and have worked as an academic tutor for undergraduate biomedical sciences and preclinical medicine at Oxford. Professionally, I secured consulting offers from McKinsey, BCG, ClearView Healthcare Partners, and ZS, completed internships at BCG and Merck Inhouse Consulting, and received full-time BCG offers in both London and Munich. Alongside my own applications, I have mentored more than 15 students from underrepresented backgrounds through successful applications to leading universities in the UK and US. These experiences have given me a detailed understanding of what differentiates strong candidates in competitive admissions and recruitment processes. My coaching focuses on helping applicants build a clear and distinctive personal narrative, identify their strongest differentiators, and translate their academic, extracurricular, and professional experiences into compelling CVs, essays, personal statements, scholarship applications, and interview answers. I provide structured, candid, and highly actionable feedback across undergraduate and postgraduate admissions, deferred MBA applications, and consulting recruitment.