MBA Admission Consultants for Top 3 MBA?
Thinking about MBA at H / S / Wharton and want to see if there is any MBA admission consultants who have experience in the traditional pre-MBA profile (think of it as 2 years investment banking 2 years of buy side) or any advice to maximize chance? Appreciate the advice!
Menlo if you can afford it
appreciate the advice!
Maxx Associates for application materials, Menlo for interview coaching. Talk to both and you will understand why. Maxx is an application whisperer and David White at Menlo is who you want for interview coaching.
Appreciate the advice! Any thoughts on MBA Admission and / or Stacy Blackman?
Hi!! Can you please elaborate a little bit more on Maxx associate? Not a lot of people talk about them. I scheduled a call with them next week but would love to hear more about them from you!
Interested in hearing about Fortuna in addition to the above
Had a really bad experience working with Fortuna. Would avoid.
Really would you mind elaborating on your experience? Was thinking of using them
Will say what’s more important is the work Ethics and the quality of the consultant himself / herself not the consulting firms
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Having worked closely with some of the brand name MBA consultants, I'd say that Menlo is the best as far as a top of the line experience and a firm that will increase your odds of admission. Many of the other bigger brand name MBA consultancies are just volume plays meaning they're trying to funnel as many candidates in as possible for each application round. Many years ago when I was interviewing firms to work with, I had one of the notable ones get my name/entire application mixed up with someone else (despite them insisting they had spoken with me before) and then proceed to bucket me into the PE candidate group and give me 30 min of generic info before telling me to purchase an unlimited admissions pack to apply to a bunch of schools in the T20...
Menlo is like an Elite Boutique and they hold to a high standard of capacity constraints for each of their coaches and turn away candidates if they don't have capacity to fully work with an individual.
I would say it’s probably very consultant dependent. If they match with founders then great. But have heard experience matching with consultant that has been not so helpful and downplaying chances so that you will sign them. And with almost $20K fees for them now, there are lots of boutique shops / individual consultants who jump out from famous big shop that will be helpful. I will say the first two schools are the ones you spend most of your time. Also no matter working with which firm please make sure you know who you are working with. It’s always a problem for firms that match you with consultants.
I worked with Kathryn Lucas directly at Square Prep and really enjoyed working with her. I got into CBS, Booth, Sloan and got interviewed by wharton (waitlist). You have to remember it's hard now to get into top 2 MBAs with a PE (or IB background) than it was 10/12 years ago.
I've worked with Stacy Blackman, MBA Mission and HBS Guru across deferred and regular. Got into W deferred and GSB this cycle.
Susan at HBS Guru is by far the best. No comparison whatsoever. Most hands on, very blunt and direct but incredible storyteller.
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