Personal Essay: Weave Your Story
This package is designed for those who already have a drafted essay and need help with editing, refining, polishing, and re-working to address divergent yet critical interests that contribute to their broader application. Here's how we'll work together for this package: - Initial Consultation — We'll start with a 30-minute meeting to review your personal and professional background along with your goals for your MBA process and career. - First Essay Review — I'll review your essay ahead of our first essay review call and make initial suggested changes and comments in a new document. - First Essay Workshop — I'll share my detailed changes and comments and provide feedback on how else we could improve your essay using more descriptive language, clearer structuring, or concision. - Second Essay Review — I'll review the next draft of your essay ahead of our second essay review call and make additional changes and comments in another new document. - Second Essay Workshop — I'll share my changes and comments and provide feedback on any further changes needed to finalize your essay. This package includes one 30-minute kick-off call, two async reviews, and two 1-hour live sessions. If you're interested in an extended initial brainstorming session, please reach out and we can discuss a custom package.
What's included
After our initial meeting, I'll review your essay on my own time ahead of our scheduled calls and we'll talk through feedback and any other questions you or I have during our live sessions.
- A strong, finalized essay that ties in well with your MBA application and communicates who you are and what makes you stand out from other candidates
- Confidence in writing additional essays using your unique story that can be adapted to target other MBA programs
Meet your expert
Elizabeth A.
HBS MBA | 4x M7 Admit | Humanities Major | Resume, Essay Edits & Strategy
After exploring an interest in journalism and spending a summer internship dipping my toes into that world, I pivoted into the fast-paced world of finance. At Johns Hopkins, I kept my Art History college major but added a minor in entrepreneurship and management. After moving to Baird's Milwaukee HQ for my first full-time job and moving up the steep learning curve I encountered in investment banking, I moved 100 miles south to Chicago and was promoted to Associate. I then moved to Dallas to work at Insight Equity, an LBO-focused private equity firm based there, and invested in industrial businesses. After applying to MBA programs and picking Harvard Business School, I moved to Boston and explored startup work by founding a clean, plastic-free skincare company. Since graduating, I've moved to NYC, near my family in CT, and worked at the Environmental Defense Fund through HBS' Leadership Fellows Program focusing on sustainability within PE. Outside of work, I'm currently training for a short race (10K) with my husband and I enjoy spending time with my friends and family, including my two sisters since we're all nearby again after each living across the US for the prior decade. I also love going to my favorite workout classes at Barry's Bootcamp, which balances out my love of gelato--habits from a study abroad in Italy die hard--and I still indulge my love of art history with the City's many museums. I'm details-oriented but the best advice I've received has been tailored to what I actually need at that moment. Some times that means going granular while other times it's high-level brainstorming or even just having the ear of a good listener that gets you to an answer you had all along. I'm here to talk, plan, and strategize!
