End-to-End Support on Creating a Standout Haas Application
Embarking on your journey to UC Berkeley Haas? My comprehensive package is designed to guide you through every step of the MBA application process, ensuring your application stands out in this competitive landscape. With my background as a Haas MBA graduate, the student VP of admissions while enrolled, and extensive experience in MBA admissions coaching, I’m here to help you craft an application that truly reflects your unique strengths and aspirations. Here’s how we’ll work together to make your Haas dream a reality: **Application Strategy & Planning**: We’ll kick off with a deep dive into your background, career goals, and personal story. Together, we’ll develop a strategic roadmap tailored to highlight your strengths and align with Haas’s values. **Resume & Recommendations**: I’ll help you craft a polished, impactful resume that showcases your achievements and potential. We’ll also strategize on selecting and guiding your recommenders to ensure their letters reinforce your narrative. **Video Essay**: I'll vet potential topics, help you outline the narrative, and coach you on the delivery. When it gets closer to submission, I'll practice with you live and/or provide feedback on recordings. **Written Essay Development & Editing**: From brainstorming to final edits, I’ll guide you in writing essays that capture your voice and resonate with the admissions committee. In addition to the Career Goals essay, we'll tackle the Distance Travelled essay (everyone should answer it) and the Optional Statement (if warranted). **Interview Preparation**: If you are doing the live, virtual interview option, I’ll conduct a mock interview to help you articulate your story confidently and effectively. We’ll practice common questions and refine your responses to ensure you’re ready to impress. If you are doing a pre-recorded interview, I'll share intel on the questions and help you brainstorm and practice your answers. **Online Application Content**: Haas gives you a lot of word count on the application form for Employment Info and Activities. I’ll provide guidance on how to use these opportunities to further strengthen your application rather than being a throwaway. Throughout our collaboration, I’m committed to providing honest, constructive feedback and being a supportive partner in your application journey. My goal is to help you present a cohesive, compelling application that reflects who you are and why you belong at Haas. Go Bears!!
What's included
Our engagement will start with you completing a comprehensive questionnaire that will serve as the basis for a 2 hour kickoff call where i get to know your personal and professional experiences and MBA/career goals. From then on, I tailor the process according to the candidate's preferences - typically something like weekly or ad hoc calls or video chats to discuss issues and lots of asynchronous work on written documents. I am also available via text within reason. The mock interview is obviously done live and I give feedback immediately after. I view coaching engagements as a partnership rather than a transaction, and I love getting to know the people I work with on a deep and meaningful level. Not only does this put us in the best place to achieve our desired results, but it makes for enjoyable and potentially fruitful long-term relationships on both ends.
- Personalized application strategy document
- Polished resume, essays, and online application content
- Tailored recommender prep packets
- The preparation and confidence to ace your video essay and interview (whether live or pre-recorded)
- An experienced, empathetic, and enthusiastic partner to ask the hard questions, provide advice, and cheer you on and support you throughout the process
Meet your expert
Emily L.
Haas Admissions VP, 4x Top Leland Coach, 200+ Top 25 Admits
I'm a Princeton undergrad and Berkeley Haas MBA who is passionate about marketing, writing, and mentoring. I have long been involved with admissions, having served as a co-VP of admissions and new student orientation at Haas, a college admissions mentor for financially disadvantaged youth in San Francisco, and a long-time Princeton alumni interviewer. I discovered a talent and love for admissions consulting after graduating from Haas in 2015. My professional experience spans multiple industries and functions, which gives me a breadth of knowledge to draw on. I've spent the majority of my career in product marketing and product management roles at investment firms (BlackRock & Franklin Templeton), however I have also worked on a major political campaign, consulted to Silicon Valley tech startups, and worked in investor relations at a small-cap biotech company. As a pet project, I published an Amazon bestselling book in 2020. Unsurprisingly, I thrive on variety and enjoy working with applicants from numerous different backgrounds. I also happen to think that non-linear career paths are some of the most interesting, and I excel at helping non-traditional candidates connect the dots in their personal narratives. Above all, I absolutely love engaging with talented individuals and showing them how to present the best version of themselves to admissions committees through authentic and engaging storytelling. In my free time I enjoy hanging out with my husband (Columbia MBA) and two young kids and doing anything and everything outdoors, especially SKIING, playing tennis, cycling, hiking, and running. I currently live in Salt Lake City, though my heart will always be in Bozeman, MT where I grew up.
