Deferred MBA Campaign — Land Your M7 Seat Before You Graduate
The Deferred MBA has specific requirements. Admissions committees are going to be assessing your trajectory rather than your professional background, which means that your application has to do something harder than a traditional MBA application: prove leadership potential, intellectual horsepower, and career clarity from internships, campus leadership, and research alone. Having served on the Booth admissions committee, I've seen exactly what separates the admit from the thousands of high-GPA, high-GMAT seniors who look identical on paper. This package is built around helping you stand out from the thousands of qualified seniors who will be competing for these limited spots. It is intended for applicants with strong academics (typically 3.5+ GPA) within eligibility windows for deferred programs (currently enrolled undergraduates or current master's students without full-time work experience). Humanities and non-traditional majors welcome — deferred programs actively seek them. *Not ready to apply this cycle? Ask about the Junior-Year Runway session. This is a profile-building and test-strategy plan that converts fully into any tier in this package*
What's included
- Deep-dive intake session to create your differentiated positioning and story
- Advice on school selection across the Deferred MBA programs
- Unlimited essay drafts and reviews for every school in your package
- Resume edits that convert your internship and campus-roles into adcom-ready impact statements
- Recommender strategy and coaching
- School-specific mock interviews
Meet your expert
Faisal K.
Top 5 Leland Coach 2026 | 200+ M7 Admits | $5MM+ in scholarships
🏆 Selected as one of the Top 5 Coaches on Leland 🏆 As part of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Admissions team, I reviewed hundreds of applications and learned what distinguished the successful candidates from those who were merely qualified for admission. I also obtained my MBA from Booth and have professional experiences in management consulting, tech, and the healthcare sectors. My focus in each sector was always marketing and strategy, helping each business stand out from its competition. Along the way, as I began helping friends and acquaintances gain admission to their top choice programs, I realized I had a passion for teasing out a person's story to highlight what separated them from the herd. I dove in to making admissions consulting a bigger part of my life, and have never looked back! I spend the bulk of my time with my clients helping create a framework for their stories. Where have you succeeded? Where have you failed? What excites you? What's different about you? My clients describe the work that I do as part admissions consulting and part executive coaching. The skills I impart help not only with creating an MBA application, but also with refining career goals and objectives. A lot of coaches promise to deliver, but you can verify my claims by looking at what former clients have said about me on Leland and at https://poetsandquants.com/consultant/faisal-khan/?pq-directory-type=consultant, where I have testimonials from clients admitted to all Top 10 schools and with over $5MM in combined scholarship grants, including full rides. As an MBA coach, it's not enough to simply have graduated from a top business school. As an active member of AIGAC - our global, governing body - I make sure to stay in close communication with the admissions teams at all of the top business schools. This is how a coach ensures they have the most up-to-date information about each business school's goals and objectives for the year, and can in turn help you craft an application that speaks to these.
