School selection
Honest analysis of your profile against M7, T15, EMBA, and international programs. We build a list that balances stretch, fit, and the schools most likely to fund you.
MBA Admissions Consulting
MBA admissions strategy with Harvard perspective, from start to submission.
School selection, resume, essays, recommendations, video essays, interview prep, scholarship strategy, and reapplication or waitlist support — coordinated by your primary consultant, with double-peer review on every deliverable.
Complete application support
Every part of the application — by the same team.
Most candidates fail not on talent but on coordination — a thin school list, off-key essays, mismatched recommendations, weak interview answers, or scholarship asks that arrive a month too late. We run all of it together.
Resume rebuild
Most admissions resumes underplay leadership and overplay tasks. We restructure yours so impact, scope, and progression are unmistakable on a 12-second read.
Essays with double-peer review
Every essay is directed by your primary consultant and independently reviewed by a senior second reviewer before submission. No solo edits.
Recommendations strategy
Who to ask, in what order, how to brief them, and how to keep two letters in sync so the committee sees one consistent leader.
Video essays
Coaching for Kellogg, Yale SOM, Wharton TBD, and any school requiring video introductions — substance, framing, lighting, pacing, and live mock recordings.
Interview training
Live mock interviews with detailed written feedback. School-specific preparation for HBS, Stanford, Wharton TBD, Kellogg, MIT, and team-based interview formats.
Scholarship strategy
A dedicated scholarship plan for every short-listed school — which seek-funded programs to apply to, how to position for them, and how to negotiate after an admit.
Waitlist + reapplication
If you're waitlisted, we run a coordinated update strategy. If you're reapplying, we diagnose what went wrong last cycle and rebuild around it.
Unlimited work hours
Your team works the application until it's submitted — not until a clock runs out. Round 1, Round 2, R3, deferred enrollment, post-admit decisions — same team.
Why integration matters
"Why not just hire an admissions consultant and a tutor?"
| Separate vendors | MBA House membership |
|---|---|
| Test plan is built before the school list, then re-done when the list changes. | Test plan, school list, and scholarship strategy are decided together, on day one. |
| Essays are drafted without knowledge of where you're realistically scoring on the GMAT. | Essays reflect the strongest version of your application — score, story, and recommenders aligned. |
| Two retainers, two onboarding calls, two sets of templates that don't speak to each other. | One membership, one onboarding, one team, one coordinated timeline. |
| Recommenders are briefed without your test score, your interview prep, or your school list in view. | Recommenders are briefed with the full picture — score, school list, essay themes, leadership thesis. |
| If you get waitlisted, you start a new project with someone new. | If you get waitlisted, the same team that knows your file runs the waitlist update. |
Test decision strategy
GMAT, GRE, Executive Assessment, or waiver?
Roughly 16 of the top 25 U.S. full-time MBA programs now accept some form of test waiver, and policies change every cycle. Your decision affects scholarships, signaling, and how schools weigh the rest of your file — it's worth making deliberately.
Best for most full-time MBA applicants
The default signal for top-15 admissions and the strongest test for scholarship competition. We recommend GMAT Focus for candidates with quantitative strengths and 9–12 months of preparation runway.
Best for verbal-strong, non-finance backgrounds
A useful alternative for candidates whose verbal score will be markedly stronger than their quant — especially humanities, healthcare, and creative-industry backgrounds applying to T15 programs.
Best for EMBA and senior candidates
A 90-minute exam designed for experienced professionals. The right choice for most EMBA candidates and select MBAs with 8+ years of experience — but not interchangeable with the GMAT for scholarship leverage.
Powerful but situational
A waiver removes the test, but it can also remove a scholarship lever and shift admissions weight onto the rest of your file. We'll tell you when a waiver helps and when it costs you money or signal.
School strategy · Columbia
Columbia MBA admissions consultant in NYC.
Columbia Business School is one of our most-applied programs — naturally, given that we are six blocks from the Flatiron and a short ride from Morningside. Our Columbia strategy covers J-Term vs. August intake, essay angles for the CBS application, recommendations, and the alumni-led interview format.
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J-Term vs. August intake
Whether you're a sponsored candidate, an entrepreneur, or a career-switcher determines which intake plays best — and which essay angles a J-Term reviewer will actually reward.
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Essay positioning
"Why CBS" essays reward specificity and a clear theory of post-MBA leverage. We help candidates avoid the most common Columbia mistakes — vague clubs, generic NYC references, and unconnected long-term goals.
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Alumni interviews
CBS interviews are conducted by alumni and vary widely. We run school-specific mocks against the most common interviewer styles, and brief you on how to handle the "tell me about a time" version vs. the "walk me through your resume" version.
School strategy · NYU Stern
NYU Stern MBA admissions consultant.
NYU Stern's "Pick Six" essay format is the most distinctive in the top-15 — six images, six captions, and a window into how the candidate actually thinks. Our Stern strategy covers Pick Six, the IQ + EQ behavioral angle, and Stern's interview emphasis.
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Pick Six essays
A real Pick Six tells the reader something about your specificity, your taste, and your judgment. We help candidates resist the urge to make it a portfolio of accomplishments — and instead make it a portrait.
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IQ + EQ positioning
Stern explicitly weighs emotional intelligence alongside intellectual ability. Your essays, recommendations, and interview answers should all carry that signal — not just the personal-statement section.
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Stern interview prep
Stern interviews are conversational and admissions-led. We prepare candidates for the most-asked questions, the "what's missing from your file" prompt, and the behavioral questions Stern returns to most frequently.