Top MBA Application — Single School

Top MBA Application — Single School

Offered by Simi K.

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

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Package Description:

Full-service application support for a single top MBA program, designed for candidates targeting Booth, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Tuck, Darden, Haas, Ross, Anderson, or any other top program. The work centers on building an application that's coherent, specific, and unmistakably you, with strategic positioning tailored to your target school. The engagement begins with a comprehensive intake and narrative discovery session. We work to surface the through-line in your career, the story that ties your accomplishments together and points clearly toward where you're going. From there, we develop the strategic positioning specific to your target school: what that school evaluates, where your story aligns, and how to frame the moments in your career that will land with an admissions reader. The school's essays each get the depth of attention they require. We work iteratively through multiple substantive drafts (typically 5–8 rounds per essay), refining structure, voice, and impact until each essay is genuinely strong. Beyond the essays, the package covers a polished resume crafted specifically for your target school, strategic recommendation letter guidance, the activities and short-answer sections, and the post-MBA career goals framing. If you're invited to interview, full interview preparation is included, covering the specific format and evaluation criteria of your target school. We do thorough mock interviews, work through your story arc, and prepare for the kinds of questions interviewers at that school actually ask. If you're applying to a JD/MBA program at your target school, the JD/MBA Add-On can be layered onto this package to cover the additional law school application work. Throughout the engagement, you have direct messaging access for time-sensitive questions, and we meet live for strategy work and substantive drafting sessions across the application cycle.


What you'll get from this package

A comprehensive narrative discovery process that surfaces the through-line in your career

Polished, finalized essays through multiple iterative drafts (typically 5–8 rounds per essay)

A strategic positioning document tailored specifically to your target school

A school-optimized resume crafted for the markers your target school evaluates

Strategic recommendation letter guidance, choosing the right recommenders and briefing them effectively

Activities and short-answer sections optimized for impact

A locked-in round strategy based on your specific timeline and profile

Full school-specific interview preparation including mock interviews and tailored question coverage (when invited to interview)

Direct messaging access throughout the engagement, with same-day or next-day response during peak season


Additional details

Coaching delivered via live sessions and .

This package combines live 1-on-1 video sessions with asynchronous review of essay drafts, application materials, and direct messaging access throughout the engagement. We meet live for strategy work, substantive drafting sessions, and key inflection points in the cycle, typically every 1–2 weeks during the lead-up to the application, stepping up to weekly or more frequent sessions as deadlines approach. My approach is structured and direct. On essays, I work iteratively rather than trying to "fix" drafts in two passes, most candidates go through 5–8 substantive drafts before each essay is genuinely strong. I also serve as an alumni interviewer for Columbia Business School admissions, which gives me a current, first-hand perspective on what selective adcoms are evaluating in candidates, perspective that informs how I coach candidates through both essays and interviews regardless of which school they're targeting. The candidates I work best with for this package are professionals with real career achievements, a clear sense of where they're going, and the willingness to do the iterative work that strong MBA applications require.

Refund Policy

Engagement timeline: This package is designed to be completed across approximately 3–5 months, ideally beginning 4–6 months before your target round deadline. Later starts can be accommodated, with adjusted timeline expectations. School scope: This package covers a single Top MBA program of your choosing (excluding HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, and Columbia, which have dedicated packages). For applications to multiple schools, see the Multi-School MBA Application package. JD/MBA programs: If you're applying to a JD/MBA program at your target school, the JD/MBA Add-On covers the additional law school application work at the flat add-on rate. Live sessions: 1-on-1 video sessions are scheduled at mutually convenient times via my calendar, typically 60–90 minutes each. During peak season, session frequency increases as needed. Cancellations require 24 hours notice; no-shows or late cancellations count toward the engagement. Response time: I respond to messages within 24 hours on weekdays and within 48 hours on weekends. During peak season, most responses are same-day. Essay revisions: Essay revisions are unlimited until each essay is final. Interview support: Full school-specific interview preparation is included if you are invited to interview. If you are not invited to interview, the interview prep portion of the package does not transfer to other use. Final review: A final review of the complete application is included before submission. Refunds: Refunds are available on a pro-rated basis for unused hours within the first 30 days of engagement. After 30 days, this package is non-refundable. Unused hours remain available throughout the application cycle.

Services included:

Recommendations

Interviews

Cover Letters

Secondary Review

Application Strategy

Essays

Resume

General Exploration

Supplementary Materials

Editing


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Simi K.

Offered by Simi K.

Joined February 2024

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

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.

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