Anyone have recommendations for MBA application consultants, experience stories and/or good questions to ask them during the initial chat? Thanks in advance!

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I just went through this process (put down a deposit with a consultant today!) feel free to DM - happy to chat about what I heard / the people I spoke with

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MBAmission. Ask about prior experience, how they think covid will impact, talk about your goals and how they can help.

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Applicant Lab! Cost effective for the starter videos to help with story building and drafting (which will replace need for many hours in-person consultant if you’re reasonably self directed) and then reasonably priced add-ons for Maria’s guidance over your materials if you want a “sanity check” or interview prep. She gave really tailored and pointed advice that really made a difference.

Heard about it through Fishbowl and can’t recommend it enough, especially after doing intro calls with SBC and a handful of other firms whose names I don’t remember. They were compelling at first but I figured that I’d do the Applicant Lab free trial and revisit the need for a separate firm...and realized that the stuff they’d said was all stuff available in the Applicant Lab free trial so went for the whole thing 😅

FWIW I spent probably $1.5K total and got interviews to all the schools I applied to except GSB! I also had colleagues and family look over my apps.

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