Top MBA Application — Single School
Full-service application support for a single top MBA program, designed for candidates targeting Booth, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Tuck, Darden, Haas, Ross, Anderson, or any other top program. The work centers on building an application that's coherent, specific, and unmistakably you, with strategic positioning tailored to your target school. The engagement begins with a comprehensive intake and narrative discovery session. We work to surface the through-line in your career, the story that ties your accomplishments together and points clearly toward where you're going. From there, we develop the strategic positioning specific to your target school: what that school evaluates, where your story aligns, and how to frame the moments in your career that will land with an admissions reader. The school's essays each get the depth of attention they require. We work iteratively through multiple substantive drafts (typically 5–8 rounds per essay), refining structure, voice, and impact until each essay is genuinely strong. Beyond the essays, the package covers a polished resume crafted specifically for your target school, strategic recommendation letter guidance, the activities and short-answer sections, and the post-MBA career goals framing. If you're invited to interview, full interview preparation is included, covering the specific format and evaluation criteria of your target school. We do thorough mock interviews, work through your story arc, and prepare for the kinds of questions interviewers at that school actually ask. If you're applying to a JD/MBA program at your target school, the JD/MBA Add-On can be layered onto this package to cover the additional law school application work. Throughout the engagement, you have direct messaging access for time-sensitive questions, and we meet live for strategy work and substantive drafting sessions across the application cycle.
What's included
This package combines live 1-on-1 video sessions with asynchronous review of essay drafts, application materials, and direct messaging access throughout the engagement. We meet live for strategy work, substantive drafting sessions, and key inflection points in the cycle, typically every 1–2 weeks during the lead-up to the application, stepping up to weekly or more frequent sessions as deadlines approach. My approach is structured and direct. On essays, I work iteratively rather than trying to "fix" drafts in two passes, most candidates go through 5–8 substantive drafts before each essay is genuinely strong. I also serve as an alumni interviewer for Columbia Business School admissions, which gives me a current, first-hand perspective on what selective adcoms are evaluating in candidates, perspective that informs how I coach candidates through both essays and interviews regardless of which school they're targeting. The candidates I work best with for this package are professionals with real career achievements, a clear sense of where they're going, and the willingness to do the iterative work that strong MBA applications require.
- A comprehensive narrative discovery process that surfaces the through-line in your career
- Polished, finalized essays through multiple iterative drafts (typically 5–8 rounds per essay)
- A strategic positioning document tailored specifically to your target school
- A school-optimized resume crafted for the markers your target school evaluates
- Strategic recommendation letter guidance, choosing the right recommenders and briefing them effectively
- Activities and short-answer sections optimized for impact
- A locked-in round strategy based on your specific timeline and profile
- Full school-specific interview preparation including mock interviews and tailored question coverage (when invited to interview)
- Direct messaging access throughout the engagement, with same-day or next-day response during peak season
Meet your expert
Simi K.
Admissions Expert | Columbia MBA | 15 Years of M7 & Top School Admits
I work with students aiming for top outcomes: a 1400+ SAT, a 700+ GMAT, or admission to highly selective colleges and MBA programs. Over 16+ years and 3,000+ students across six continents, I've built a practice around one idea: most students don't need more work, they need the right work, structured the right way. My career started at Prep Zone in Singapore, where I helped expand the company into Shanghai before returning to New York and joining some of the city's top test prep and admissions firms, including Veritas Prep, Bespoke Education, and Advantage Testing. I went on to found my own practice, Global Scholars, where I now work with students across six continents. On the testing side, my students average 200+ point gains on the SAT and 100+ on the GMAT. This is driven by pattern recognition, test strategy, and disciplined execution rather than brute-force practice. On the admissions side, my work is about coherence. Smart students often arrive with strong but scattered pieces: academics, extracurriculars, a story they haven't fully figured out. My job is to help them put it all together: a sharp narrative, a strategic school list, and essays that actually sound like them. 95%+ of my students are admitted to at least one of their top-choice schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, MIT, UChicago, NYU, and UCLA. I graduated from NYU and earned my MBA from Columbia Business School, which gives me a current, first-hand perspective on both undergraduate and MBA admissions. If you want a structured, strategic partner, not generic advice, let's talk.
