Simi K.

Simi Klein

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Admissions Expert | Columbia MBA | 15 Years of M7 & Top School Admits

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Studied at Columbia Business School

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Simi's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $300/hr

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GMAT 700+ Blueprint: How to Gain 50–100 Points Efficiently
GMAT 700+ Blueprint: How to Gain 50–100 Points Efficiently

May 14 at 12:00 AM UTC

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MBA Admissions Strategy Session: From Profile to Admit (M7 & Top 15)
MBA Admissions Strategy Session: From Profile to Admit (M7 & Top 15)

May 19 at 12:15 AM UTC

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Simi’s MBA Qualifications

Coaches professionally

90+ people coached for MBA

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Simi has helped clients get into these schools:

I've spent the last 16+ years helping ambitious applicants get into the world's most competitive MBA programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, and Booth. Across 200+ MBA clients, 95% have been admitted to at least one of their top-choice programs, and over half have received scholarship money. I graduated from NYU Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Economics and English, and earned my MBA from Columbia Business School in 2020, where I focused on Strategy and Entrepreneurship. That gives me a current, first-hand perspective on what M7 adcoms are actually looking for. My career in this work started in Singapore, at a test prep and admissions firm I helped expand into Shanghai, running tutoring and admissions consulting in both markets before coming back to New York to found my own practice. That international background means I'm equally comfortable working with US candidates and applicants from Asia, Europe, and beyond, particularly the kinds of candidates who often have the strongest stories but the hardest time articulating them: finance professionals reinventing themselves, engineers making a pivot, non-traditional career switchers. My work focuses on coherence. Most applicants arrive with strong but scattered material: a real career, real accomplishments, but no through-line. My job is to help you find the narrative that ties it all together, build a school list that's strategic (not aspirational), and turn essays into the strongest part of your application instead of the most stressful. If you want a structured, results-focused partner, let's talk.

Simi 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

Simi also coaches for GMAT, College, and SAT. View all.

About Simi

I work with students aiming for top outcomes: a 1400+ SAT, a 700+ GMAT, or admission to highly selective colleges and MBA programs. Over 16+ years and 3,000+ students across six continents, I've built a practice around one idea: most students don't need more work, they need the right work, structured the right way. On the testing side, my students average 200+ point gains on the SAT and 100+ on the GMAT. This is driven by pattern recognition, test strategy, and disciplined execution rather than brute-force practice. On the admissions side, my work is about coherence. Smart students often arrive with strong but scattered pieces: academics, extracurriculars, a story they haven't fully figured out. My job is to help them put it all together: a sharp narrative, a strategic school list, and essays that actually sound like them. 95%+ of my students are admitted to at least one of their top-choice schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, MIT, UChicago, NYU, and UCLA. I graduated from NYU and earned my MBA from Columbia Business School, which gives me a current, first-hand perspective on both undergraduate and MBA admissions. If you want a structured, strategic partner, not generic advice, let's talk.

Why do I coach?

Growing up in New York, my father taught me that studying is a craft: structured, intentional, and learnable by anyone willing to commit to the process. That mindset shaped how I learned, how I tested, and how I teach. It's also a skill that pays dividends long after any exam or application is behind you. After graduating from NYU, I moved to Singapore to work for a start-up test prep company, where I fell in love with the work and the impact it had on students. That passion brought me back to New York, where I founded Global Scholars, built a career across education and business, and earned my MBA at Columbia Business School. Sixteen years and 3,000+ students later, I've worked with applicants across six continents - from New York to Sydney, London to Tokyo. What drives me is simple: watching students achieve results beyond what they thought possible, and seeing how that changes their confidence and trajectory long after our work together ends.

Work Experience

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Product Growth

Studyo

August 2023 - Present

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Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

Wiley

August 2020 - April 2023

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Senior Product Manager

Amazon

June 2019 - August 2019

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MBA Candidate

Columbia Business School

August 2018 - August 2020

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CEO and Co-Founder

Global Scholars Institute (GSI)

2013 - April 2018

Admissions Committee

Education

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Columbia Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

2018 - 2020

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New York University

Economics

2008 - 2011

Simi was also personally admitted to

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    University of Chicago

  • The Wharton School (UPenn) Logo

    The Wharton School (UPenn)

  • Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) Logo

    Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern)

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Simi has helped clients achieve these scores on the GMAT

700 - 740

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