Neal Bhandari

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Ace the MBA Admissions Process

2,025 min coached

Studied at Harvard Business School

Worked at NVIDIA

Successful clients at

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Neal's Offerings

Early Starters MBA Prep Plan

$4566h of coaching

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Nail the Harvard Business School Interview

Starting at $2403h+ of coaching

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Final Application Review

Starting at $2403h+ of coaching

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Early Starters MBA Prep Plan

$4566h of coaching

Save $24

Nail the Harvard Business School Interview

Starting at $2403h+ of coaching

Save up to $20

Final Application Review

Starting at $2403h+ of coaching

Save up to $20

Custom hourly · $80/hr

Get help with Application Strategy, Cover Letters, and .

Neal also coaches for AI for Product Development and Management Consulting. View all.

Neal’s MBA Qualifications

Coaches professionally

As a current Harvard Business School student admitted through the 2+2 Deferred Enrollment Program, I have firsthand experience navigating both the deferred and traditional MBA admissions processes. I successfully gained admission to multiple top MBA programs, including my top choice HBS, and understand what it takes to craft a compelling application at every stage. Whether you're applying through a deferred program like HBS 2+2 or Yale Silver Scholars, pursuing a traditional full-time MBA, or exploring a combined degree like an MS/MBA, I can help you develop a differentiated application strategy, refine your essays, and prepare for interviews with confidence.

Neal can help with:

Application Strategy

Cover Letters

Editing

Essays

Financial Aid & Scholarships

General Exploration

Interviews

Networking Strategy

Recommendations

Resume

School Selection

Secondary Review

Supplementary Materials

Testing & Assessments

Neal also coaches for AI for Product Development and Management Consulting. View all.

About Neal

About Neal • Harvard Business School MBA; BA in Econ/Computer Science from Vanderbilt • Former Product Manager at NVIDIA, Google, and Consultant at Bain & Company, with offers from 10+ other major tech companies • Coaching | Advised 44 candidates across MBA (HBS, Booth, Sloan, Kellogg, Duke), undergrad (Princeton, MIT, Vanderbilt, UCLA), Big Tech (Google, Netflix, NVIDIA, Meta, top-tier startups), and top management consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG) • What I'm Doing Now | PM Lead at an a16z-backed startup

Why do I coach?

Interviews and applications are storytelling, and storytelling is what I love most. I actually enjoy interviewing, and I've built my career around finding the narrative thread in a product, a strategy, or a person, then shaping it into something compelling. Coaching lets me do that for people instead of products. My own path to Harvard, Google, and NVIDIA was full of confusion. I didn't know anyone in these spaces, and I had no map for how to navigate the applications, interviews, or unwritten rules that seemed to matter so much. I want to be the person I didn't have: someone who can shortcut that confusion and show you what actually matters, especially in a landscape this competitive. Most of the time, what you need is already there. My job is to help pull it out, build a plan around it, and work backwards from your goal until it happens.