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Comprehensive MBA Campaign

Faisal K.
By Faisal K.5.0· 104 reviewsTop 5 Leland Coach 2026 | 200+ M7 Admits | $5MM+ in scholarships

Most applicants have the raw materials — the scores, the GPA, the job title — to make for a successful MBA submission. Unfortunately, given the record application volumes in 2025, this is not going to be enough in the new application cycle. In this comprehensive partnership, we will move beyond surface-level grammar edits to answer the brutal "So What?" question for every single component of your application. Whether you are applying to one school or five, we won't copy-paste, but instead custom-fit your content to the specific DNA of each institution (e.g., pivoting your narrative from the "collaborative leadership" of Kellogg to the "change-maker" ethos of Stanford GSB). My goal is to go beyond just admissions, and provide coaching that will create a narrative that not only gets you to an admission decision, but also maximizes your chances of a merit scholarship. The Roadmap (What We Will Do): Phase 1: The "Story Mining" We start with the mining of your background through live and asynchronous sessions. From this, we identify your themes and find the "hook" that differentiates you from the 4,000 other consultants/engineers in the pile. We will also review your resume, stripping it down and deleting the jargon. We will rewrite your resume to focus purely on quantifiable impact and strategic leadership. If a bullet point doesn't pass the "So What?" test, it goes. Phase 2: The Core Narrative Construction We build the master narrative for your top-choice school. This is the hardest part of the process—drafting, shredding, and rewriting until the voice is authentic and the logic is bulletproof. *** Unlimited Iteration *** : I won't count "rounds" of edits. We will work until the content is perfect. Phase 3: Multi-School Packages If you select a 2, 3, or 5-school package, we will work to customize your story. We will collaborate on taking your "Core Narrative" and translating it into the specific language and values of your target schools. Adcoms know when you have copied and pasted a peer institution's essay, so this phase makes sure that we speak to the cultural fit of each school. Short Answer Strategy: I treat the 250-word short answers with the same rigor as the main essay. This is often where acceptance is won or lost. Phase 4: The "Sales Team" (Recommenders) You will hand your recommenders a "Cheat Sheet" I help you design, ensuring they highlight the specific traits (e.g., "resilience," "innovation") that validate your essays. Remember that all applicants choose recommenders who praise the applicant. You need to go beyond and make sure that the recommender's narrative amplifies what you are trying to communicate in the rest of your application. Phase 5: The Final Polish & Interview Once invited, we run a full-scale mock interview. I will grill you on your story gaps so the actual interview feels easy by comparison. My goal is to arm you not just for the MBA interview, but to give you tools that will serve you in future professional interview settings as well. Who This Is For: Candidates who have high stats but feel their story is "generic." Candidates targeting top-tier programs who need a partner to manage the complexity of a multi-school campaign. Candidates who want brutal, direct feedback. Candidates who want structure and a customized work plan to get them across the finish line

What's included

Coaching Time60h–70h of coaching · Live Sessions$13,000
Total$13,000
  • The "Story Mining" Intensive: A multi-hour deep-dive into your background. We will find the psychological "hook" that connects your childhood influences to your future career goals, ensuring you separate from the herd
  • The "So What?" Resume Transformation: We remove all jargon and rebuild the document line-by-line to focus purely on quantifiable impact and leadership potential, ensuring every bullet point proves you are ready for the C-suite. (This is the exact strategy that helped clients secure $160k+ in scholarships last cycle).
  • Unlimited Narrative Construction: I do not count "rounds" of edits. We draft, shred, and rewrite your core essays. We work until the voice is authentic and the logic is solid..
  • Strategic "School DNA" Pivot: (For Multi-School Packages) We do not "copy-paste." We take your core narrative and translate it into the specific value language of each target school—pivoting your story from the "intellectual curiosity" required by Chicago Booth to the "principled leadership" required by HBS.
  • The Recommender Packet: You will hand your recommenders a strategic briefing document I help you design. This ensures they highlight the exact traits (e.g., resilience, emotional intelligence) that validate the claims made in your essays.
  • The "Waitlist Prevention" Audit (Short Answers): Most candidates burn out on the 200-word data forms. I treat these with the same rigor as the main essay. We use this space to plug gaps in your profile, preventing the doubts that lead to waitlists.
  • Interview Prep: Once invited, we run a full-scale mock interview. I will grill you on the weak points of your application so that the actual interview feels easy by comparison.

Meet your expert

Faisal K.

Faisal K.

Top 5 Leland Coach 2026 | 200+ M7 Admits | $5MM+ in scholarships

5.0104 reviews
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🏆 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.

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