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Avoid woking without direction for weeks. I guide you on how to started on your essays and what admissions look for. Great for MBA applicants who are on a limited budget or self-driven and have limited time to figure out how to get started. -> Through a single call 1:1 we kickoff brainstorming and framing - this is where I get to know YOU deeply: 1) Strengths and weaknesses analysis for your specific profile 2) Essay question breakdown/framing based on expertise of what admissions look for 3) professional advice on formulating your goals tested against real market trends 4) impact of low GMAT/GPA lower ranked colleges; 5) Winning school selection based on feedback from hundreds of alumni from every program 6) set a timeline/deadlines. -> We tackle important questions considering what makes you different, your constraints, worries and needs, such as: -Should I wait to apply in the next year or round due to something that happened? -Is my GMAT/GRE score good enough for my top programs with my profile? -What are the best stories to use on my essays? -How do I differentiate myself as a candidate when coming from consulting/finance/tech? -Is what I am writing about relevant? -Is my professional experience enough? What do I highlight? -What if I have never led a team? -What if I only worked for a small startup or a family owned business? I hope to inspire confidence by providing frank feedback and making recommendations as needed to form the best possible application. I have been in your shoes and can empathize with wanting to put your best foot forward and get it done. At no time should you feel like unneeded services are being pushed onto you, but the areas we cover are dependent on the amount of questions, "sticky" details we need to strategize, and your ability to execute on the feedback. Some candidates need more guidance/brainstorming and that is perfectly ok, just takes more coaching. We use the time in the most effective way by hyper focusing on a single school's essays. This work will be a base for all your other essays and reduce replicating errors when trying to tackle multiple essays at once.
Walk away with a clear picture of the framing and stories to write unique and personal essays
Walk away with important questions answered considering what makes you different, your constraints, worries and needs
Coaching delivered via live sessions.
What counts toward your purchased hours? Time spent preparing for our call in reviewing resume, transcripts, GMAT/GRE, or drafts/previous app essays. Also calls, email responses, and essay edits count toward your total hours purchased. If time runs out, I will provide actionable high-level guidance to apply to the rest independently OR recommend adding more time.
*This package is not to be used for a full school review or for interview prep. It can only be purchased ONCE per person. Coaching beyond the 2 hours requires additional purchases using the hourly 1:1, AI+coaching, or end-to-end packages.
Services included:
Editing
Recommendations
Interviews
Waitlist Strategy
School Selection
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
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I'm a top MBA admissions coach with 11yrs experience and 85% success rate to H/S/W + Top 15 global MBAs. I am consistently rated more effective than former admissions officers because coaching/guiding is a strength, I have a deep understanding of how admissions officers think, and because I care about impacting your life trajectory. I coach you to compete like an olympic athlete that has trained with the right techniques so give it your all. HBS interview preparation/mocks: I get oversubscribed each round, so please book early. No intro calls to discuss mock interviews, please refer to my reviews. Taking on 2-3 dMBA/R3 candidates. I’m ahead of the MBA admissions coach pack—I've built AI prompting tools to complement one-on-one coaching. Using ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude? Review is a must to identify AI patterns. ->Through our conversations, I challenge you to discover your leadership voice by placing you in the "interview seat" from our first call. I draw on my deep understanding of what admissions look for and what essay questions are truly asking for to help you create an authentic story and ambitious goals that stand out. Together we create a design session where we think deeply about personal and professional moments that show who you are. This leads to your strongest application, higher interview invitation rates, and admissions. -> Expertise in prompting generic ChatGPT/Anthropic AI to get non-generic admissions caliber feedback. I evolved my 1:1 coaching to include guidance on using AI effectively for clients who see it as a tool, but continue to provide traditional coaching for those who don't want it. I have developed prompts that remove the generic responses that general use AI tools provide, to make them essay specific and in your voice. Try this formula that works: Invest in 2-5 hours of quality coaching to unlock your core stories. Then use getMBA.ai to accelerate the iterative writing process—turning weeks of grunt work into days. →I work with a small group of international/US candidates each round from diverse backgrounds (tech, entrepreneurs, consultants, family business). I am available for my clients within short notice. Get started right away with intro 1-2hrs foundational call - according to my reviews, it's a worthwhile investment. -> Most clients do not have clear goal when we begin working together, but end with clear career direction - and some have started companies based on the ideas we formulated together. -> My interests: Looking to work with candidates with unique AI based goals - in particular big ideas that are not yet clear or tangible. ->Unlimited Coaching package includes additional review by a second coach (you get 2 in 1 coaches!) ->Initial trial hourly purchases will be credited when you upgrade to Unlimited Coaching package* ->Optional access to insights that mimic hundreds of successful essays via AI writing tool ->I apply my superpower as an innovator and storyteller to walk clients through a framework that helps connect the dots of past experiences and future aspirations. We get to your “aha” moment and get you excited (and less anxious) about your own fantastic and bold story - this in turn elevates your competitiveness in MBA applications and interviews. -> IG: MBAcoach ->My expertise has been featured in Poets&Quants. ->I have advised professionals across 20 countries in complex industries including tech, finance, consulting, government, healthcare, biotech, entrepreneurship, renewable energy, military, and telco. Experience spans product management, strategy, operations, analytics, finance, sales, engineering and manufacturing. Areas of less expertise: Brand management, marketing, HR. ->Experienced with top 17 MBAs worldwide: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, MIT, Booth, Columbia, Tuck, Haas, Yale, NYU, UCLA, Ross, Duke, Fuqua, London Business School, Insead ->Personality traits: I recognize that applying to competitive MBAs is a serious process for you on top of a competitive full time job. I inject my naturally open and humorous personality to make the process feel a little less like work. Nimble and grounded are other core strengths, I know when to guide to create urgency and when to give you room to explore your creativity. ->Experienced with MBA, EMBA, PT MBA, & deferred admissions. ->Experienced with dual degrees MBA/MPP(A) or MBA/MA product, design, engineering, education, biotech. **See My Reactions Video to Burning MBA applicant questions **Poets&Quants Article: https://poetsandquants.com/2024/08/07/tips-to-nail-new-harvard-mba-essays/?pq-category=sbc&pq-category-2=sponsored-blogs *Note: initial up to 3 hour purchases will be credited toward upgrade to Unlimited Coaching packages
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