Admissions consultants for MBA admissions
Compare 613 admissions consultants who focus on MBA admissions. Besides MBA admissions, the most common focus areas are ivy league and top schools, college essays, grad school and PhD and college admissions. They most often work with students, professionals and parents. Most charge $69 to $244 per hour or session.
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Grad School Road Map
Grad School Road Map is a graduate school admissions coaching practice. It helps applicants to MBA, law, medical, master's and doctoral programs across all fields. The team includes former deans and directors of admissions at Columbia, Northwestern and University of Chicago. In 18 years, it has worked with just over 1150 applicants. It also speaks on campuses and has written a book on the application process from start to finish.
Akin Obiri
Akin Obiri is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong business school applications. He spent over 10 years in graduate admissions and was Director of Masters Admissions and Recruitment at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. He has reviewed over 4,000 applications and read 300 to 400 per cycle. He has also conducted evaluative interviews and served on an admissions committee. His career focused on MBA and JD admissions.
Sabrina Fathi
Sabrina Fathi is an MBA admissions consultant. She helps applicants with non-linear paths, global backgrounds, or careers in transition. She earned her MBA at Wharton and served as an Admissions Fellow, so she has reviewed candidates from the evaluation side. Before business school she moved from investment management into tech startups, and she worked at Nike. She takes a small number of clients each cycle and has 40+ M7 admits.
Sowa Imoisili
Sowa Imoisili is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business programs. Sowa graduated from Stanford's business school and served as Student Body Co-President there. Before that, Sowa worked as a teacher and a management consultant. Clients have come from the US, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. Sowa has also coached undergraduate applicants in the US, Canada, China, and Singapore. Sessions focus on telling each applicant's true story.
Spencer Shih
Spencer Shih is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants choose schools and tell their story based on career goals. He is a Navy veteran who used a full-time MBA to move into marketing. He has worked with more than 60 MBA clients and has coached full-time MBA students on recruiting for over 5 years. He starts by asking what career you want after the MBA and what experience you want during the two years.
Tomilola Abiodun
Tomilola Abiodun is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international and domestic students with admissions, scholarships, and careers. She founded TitanR Consulting. In seven years she has helped 500+ students get into their target programs and secured more than $35M in scholarships for them. She has also supported 350+ career placements. She went through the process herself as an international student and earned her MBA at Fisher College of Business in 2019.
Abby Troy
Abby Troy is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with strategy, essays and interviews. She holds a Kellogg MBA and a Yale BA. Before business school she worked at American Express as a product marketing manager and product manager. She has worked with more than 30 MBA clients, including 19 who got into M7 schools. Her admits include 10 at Kellogg, 5 at Columbia and 4 at Yale SOM. She has coached for 13,031 minutes.
Abigail Hagan
Abigail Hagan is an admissions consultant who helps students get into PhD, MBA, master's and undergraduate programs. She has coached 100+ clients into top STEM PhD, master's and undergraduate programs, including MD/PhD and dual-degree paths. She also helps early-career professionals land roles at firms like Amazon, BCG and Morgan Stanley. She works on PwC's AI Strategy team under the Chief AI Officer and scored 331 on the GRE.
Adam Hoff
Adam Hoff is a college admissions coach who helps students and families with applications, essays, and interviews. He ran the admissions committee for Seaver College at Pepperdine and later led MBA admissions consulting at Veritas Prep. He also co-owned an MBA practice that helped hundreds of candidates get into top business schools. He co-founded the podcast studio Campside Media and has written screenplays. He has coached over 100 college clients.
Ade Dedeke
Ade Dedeke is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell clear, personal stories. Ade graduated from Columbia Business School with a full ride scholarship for both years, after getting into multiple top 20 programs. Ade worked as a management consultant and is also a founder. Ade has helped more than 10 MBA clients across the U.S. with essays, resumes, interviews and waitlist strategy.
Aditi Singh
Aditi Singh is an MBA admissions consultant who helps people apply to business school. She is a Stanford MBA graduate and served as an MBA Admissions Ambassador there. Before Stanford, she worked in strategy, operations, venture capital and international business. She led expansion into APAC and Middle East markets at Teachmint. She has guided 18 clients through their MBA applications and also helps with interview prep and career transitions.
AdmissionSight
AdmissionSight is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents apply to Ivy League and other top universities. The team covers college, transfer, graduate and MBA applications. Founder Eric Eng has over 15 years of experience and graduated from Princeton. He works one-on-one with only 15 students per year. Senior consultants include graduates of Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Services also include essay editing, extracurricular planning and test tutoring.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm for college, MBA, law and medical school applicants. Two Brown University classmates started it in 2007, and it now has a team of 60+ consultants. The firm has reviewed over 40,000 applications. Every client works with a lead consultant on strategy and a separate essay specialist on writing. The firm does not pre-qualify clients, so it takes applicants with lower stats or unusual backgrounds.
Admit Expert
Admit Expert is an MBA admissions consulting company that helps applicants get into top global business schools. Clients apply to schools such as Harvard, INSEAD, ISB, LBS and NUS. Every client works with a lead consultant, school mentors and a quality assurance manager. The team includes former admissions committee members and business school alumni. Admit Expert holds a 5.0 rating on GMAT Club from more than 120 verified reviews.
Adwoa Boateng
Adwoa Boateng is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into Wharton and other top 10 programs. She is a former U.S. government professional with five years in international development oversight and foreign policy. In the last two years, she helped over five applicants win Wharton admission, with funding from 25% to full tuition. Her focus is storytelling. She helps clients show how an MBA fits their personal and professional goals.
Albert Choi
Albert Choi is an admissions consultant who helps students and professionals apply to MBA programs, colleges and other graduate schools. He has coached for nearly two decades, starting with tutoring at age 15. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in strategy consulting at Deloitte. His clients have been admitted to schools such as Harvard, Stanford GSB, Yale Law and Princeton. He keeps his client roster small.
Alec Emmert
Alec Emmert coaches people who want into top MBA programs and elite consulting firms. He works with applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. He was admitted to Wharton at age 35 with a 2.85 undergraduate GPA. He then joined McKinsey & Company as an Associate and worked in its Private Equity practice. He also led Service to School, a nonprofit that helps veterans get into top universities, and wrote a book on MBA success for veterans.
Alex Bastoky
Alex Bastoky is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong stories for top business schools. He holds an HBS MBA and is a former Bain consultant, Fulbright Scholar and West Point graduate. His own HBS essay was printed in the book "50 Successful Harvard Application Essays." He scored a perfect GRE Verbal and adds test help to his coaching. His clients have won offers from Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, Haas and Fuqua.
Alex Clark
Alex Clark is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business schools. Alex is a Stanford GSB graduate, a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer and a former Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Alex also served as a TALK Coach at Stanford. Alex has worked with more than 10 MBA clients on strategy, essays and personal stories, with a focus on applicants from non-traditional paths.
Alex Leventhal
Alex Leventhal runs Prep MBA, an admissions consultancy for people applying to MBA programs, law schools and other graduate programs. Alex has worked with hundreds of US and international applicants, in person and by video. Alex stays a boutique firm, so clients work with Alex directly and not with a junior consultant. Poets & Quants added Alex to its MBA Consultant Hall of Fame in 2021. Alex has more than 19 years of experience.
Alex Trombetta
Alex Trombetta is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into business school. Alex studied at Berkeley Haas and has insider knowledge of the Haas admissions committee. Alex also works as a Principal at INITIATE, a healthcare and life sciences company creation platform, and as a Venture Partner at Courtyard Ventures.
Alexandra Eitel
Alexandra Eitel is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates plan and write strong business school applications. She is a first year student at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before that, she worked at Creative Artists Agency and helped start YouTube's Public Figures business. She was admitted to Stanford GSB, Columbia, INSEAD, MIT Sloan, Berkeley and UCLA. She focuses on school selection, essays and interviews.
Alice Reid
Alice Reid is an MBA admissions consultant and consulting case coach. She helps people with MBA applications, interviews and consulting recruiting. Alice was accepted to Harvard Business School, Wharton, Booth and Kellogg, and won merit scholarships at all four. She enrolled at Harvard. She worked at Bain & Company and served as an official Bain interviewer for two years. She has coached and mentored for 6+ years.
Alice Shang
Alice Shang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants. She began her career in investment banking and growth equity, covering tech companies. She now works as a founder of a women's health startup. Her focus is story-telling. She helps clients build an application narrative that sounds like them. She has helped clients land spots at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and MIT. She also helps with finance job recruiting.
Alissa Orlando
Alissa Orlando is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell their story clearly. She focuses on reapplicants, nontraditional candidates, and people changing careers. She was rejected by Stanford GSB one year and accepted the next. Before that, she worked at McKinsey and led operations at Rocket Internet and Uber. She has coached more than 10 MBA clients and also co-founded a Broadway production company.
Allie Kim
Allie Kim is a law school admissions consultant who also helps with MBA applications. She works with applicants who have finance, high-rigor, or non-traditional backgrounds. Allie applied to 13 T-14 law schools and was admitted to 7. She also earned a spot in Columbia's deferred MBA program. She spent nearly three years as a Public Finance Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan before starting at Harvard Law School.
Allie Kronthal
Allie Kronthal is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates build strong applications to top business schools. She has coached people from finance, private equity, consulting, healthcare, technology, real estate and impact investing. She also works as a writing coach and alumni interviewer for Penn. Her clients have gained admission to schools such as Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia and Yale SOM.
Amanda Thomsen
Amanda Thomsen is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, interviews, resumes and application strategy. She focuses on deferred MBA applicants. She was admitted to every school she applied to, including Stanford GSB, Harvard HBS, MIT Sloan, UChicago Booth and Northwestern Kellogg. She chose Stanford GSB. She applied from a non-target school and has worked in startups, academic research and corporate product management. She has coached 30+ MBA clients.
Amanda Wirtz
Amanda Wirtz is a college admissions counselor who helps students get into college, graduate school and MBA programs. She spent years working on the school side of admissions as a director at the University of Redlands and a recruiter for the Claremont Colleges. Her students have gained entry to schools such as UCLA, Cornell, UPenn, Duke and BYU. She also worked at Google and Kaplan, and she co-authored a Kaplan writing textbook.
Ambar Sinha
Ambar Sinha is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches career pivots. He helps MBA applicants choose between schools and regions. He also works with post-MBA professionals and big tech operators who want a new path. Ambar built a smart cities practice in engineering consulting and won $5.9M in contracts in its first year. He later earned an MBA at IESE Business School and joined Amazon's Operations Leadership program in the UK.
Amit Shingare
Amit Shingare is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants to US business schools. He is a Duke Fuqua MBA and served as an Admissions Ambassador and VP of Admissions at Fuqua. Before business school he worked as a Project Engineer and later as Chief of Staff at a real estate company. He has worked with 10+ MBA clients. He offers a Duke Fuqua package as well as hourly help.
Amritha Mani
Amritha Mani is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and worked as an MBA admissions consultant with The Red Pen. She has helped 50+ applicants get offers at schools including LSE, Michigan, Columbia, IIM, and Harvard (MPA). Before admissions, she spent 14+ years leading strategy and transformation work at Director and Principal level in financial services, government, and global consulting.
Amy Duckworth
Amy Duckworth is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong business school applications. She spent 10 years in higher education. She was Director of Admissions at Imperial College Business School and Head of MBA Recruitment and Admissions at Cambridge Judge Business School. She has interviewed hundreds of candidates and chaired many Admissions Committee meetings. She has helped clients get into Imperial College Business School.
Amy Hazen
Amy Hazen is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. She spent 12 years on staff at the Wharton School, where she interviewed applicants, read files, and sat in admissions committee meetings. Before that, she worked 5 years as a journalist and editor. She has coached applicants to HBS, GSB, CBS, Wharton, and other M7 peer schools. She has 200+ M7 admits.
Amy Sack
Amy Sack runs Admissions Accomplished, an independent admissions consulting practice in Ponte Vedra, Florida. She helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school applications. The practice also offers career counseling and works with international students. Her team includes a former deputy director of admissions at an Ivy League university. The practice has served students worldwide since 2000. She is a member of IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Andrea Bryan
Andrea Bryan is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong application materials. She is the Chief Administrative Officer at Race Rock and a Jones MBA graduate from Rice University. She has worked on the admissions side at Rice, where she ran interviews and read applications. She has coached for over 10 years and has edited hundreds of resumes, essays and letters. She joined Leland to coach applicants who are ready to work hard.
Andrea Santambrogio
Andrea Santambrogio is a GMAT tutor and admissions and interview coach for people applying to business school and consulting jobs. Andrea is a BCG consultant with an MBA from SDA Bocconi and a Columbia Business School exchange. Andrea has prepared more than 400 students for the GMAT Focus, the Executive Assessment, MBA admissions and consulting interviews. Andrea's students have reached GMAT scores from 685 to 785.
Andrew Kim
Andrew Kim is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build their story and get into their chosen programs. He earned his own MBA/MA at Wharton and sat on the Wharton admissions committee. Before that, he worked at ION, taught in Bulgaria on a Fulbright, and sold at LinkedIn. He has coached more than 10 MBA clients. He now leads early-stage go-to-market at Unify.
Andy Pelletier
Andy Pelletier is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build and tell a strong story for business school. He has coached applicants since 2002 at three consulting firms. He co-designed one firm's editing service and was its sole essay doctor for 100+ consultants. He also interviews applicants as a Stanford alumni interviewer. His clients have gained admission to schools such as Stanford, HBS, Wharton, and INSEAD.
Angela Winegar
Angela Winegar is an MBA admissions and career consultant. She helps candidates get into top business schools and land roles in consulting, tech and venture capital. She is a Harvard MBA and MPP graduate and a former Bain consultant. She also worked as a VC and PE associate. Today she leads marketing and growth at Invisible Technologies. She has sat on hiring committees across consulting and tech, and she has placed clients in top consulting firms, tech companies and Top 7 business schools.
Aniket Aggarwal
Aniket Aggarwal is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He is an MBA candidate at Yale School of Management. He has coached for 3 years and has worked with 50+ MBA clients. His clients have been admitted to Yale SOM, ESSEC, Columbia, Kellogg and Chicago Booth. Before business school, he worked with startups in their early growth stages. He also scored 740 on the GMAT.
Ankur Chadha
Ankur Chadha is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top full-time MBA programs in the United States. He is a strategy consultant at Accenture and an incoming MIT Sloan student. He won admission to five top programs, including MIT Sloan, Columbia, Kellogg, Booth and Stern. He also guest lectures at UC Berkeley Haas on strategy consulting and career development.
Anna Lasko
Anna Lasko is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong stories for top business schools. She is a Harvard Business School alum from the Class of 2018 and spent several years at McKinsey. She now leads operations at a healthcare startup. She has hired many people and sat in rooms where MBA applications get discussed. She gives direct feedback and says so when something is not working.
Annie Wang
Annie Wang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on college and career goals. She has coached for over 5 years. She started as a paid consulting and admissions coach at the University of Michigan Career Center. She also worked as a writing coach for under-resourced transfer applicants to Michigan Ross. She competed as a USA powerlifter and ties fitness and wellness habits into her coaching. First-generation college students get a discount.
Antoine Gamberini
Antoine Gamberini is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs and MBAs. He earned a place in the Stanford GSB MSx program, Class of 2025. Before that, he spent twelve years in telecom in Europe. He led large teams and turned around multimillion-euro businesses. He has coached dozens of applicants, first informally and then more intentionally. He now works in strategy and operations at Google. He also offers coaching in communication and public speaking.
Anurag Gandhi
Anurag Gandhi is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and studied at Stanford. Before coaching, he worked in supply chain at Nike and Apple, then in consulting at Keystone Strategy. He is now Director of Corporate Strategy at Mawson, a publicly traded digital infrastructure company. His clients have gained admission to Wharton, Booth and Haas.
Arielle Martin
Arielle Martin is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants plan and tell their story. Her clients have been admitted to M7 and Top 20 programs, including HBS, GSB, Wharton, Booth and Kellogg. She is a 2022 Harvard Business School alum who applied in Round 2 with 3 years of work experience. She works in healthcare strategy at Teladoc Health and coaches applicants across time zones from the Bay Area.
Arthur Balagula
Arthur Balagula is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and prepare for interviews. He was admitted to MIT Sloan and earned his MBA there in 2018. He has coached people who got into MIT Sloan and other top MBA programs. His own career runs through Deloitte consulting, Facebook, TikTok and Adobe. He now works in product marketing on the AI demand gen team for Google Cloud.
Atharva Deshmukh
Atharva Deshmukh is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with school selection, essays, resumes, interviews and GRE quant prep. He has a Biomedical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and works in medical devices and healthcare. He was admitted to Harvard Business School through the 2+2 program, and also to Kellogg and Darden. He also coaches competitive swimmers, including 2 US Olympians.
Austin Lam
Austin Lam is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and plan for careers in management consulting and private equity. He is an MBA student and Admissions Fellow at Chicago Booth. Before business school, he worked in management consulting at BCG and in software growth equity investing at Pacific Lake. He also applied to business school while working full time in private equity.
Avi Yulzari
Avi Yulzari is a test prep tutor who helps students prepare for the GMAT, GRE, Digital SAT and ACT. He is based in the Netherlands and works with applicants from around the world. He scored 805 on the GMAT and has worked with 100+ GMAT clients. His students have gained seats at Harvard, Stanford GSB and INSEAD. He teaches students to spot common test-maker traps and to handle the pacing of computer-adaptive tests.
Bara Sapir
Bara Sapir is a GMAT tutor who also coaches students on mindset and test anxiety. She has worked with hundreds of clients, including students who got into schools like Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD. Her clients also include physicians preparing for medical boards and executives at Fortune 500 companies. She brought mindfulness tools into test prep, using methods like hypnosis, NLP and tapping. She wrote The Full Potential Manual and created the MindFlow speed reading workshop.
Barbara Coward
Barbara Coward is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into business schools around the world. She has worked in admissions for over two decades. She was the Director of Admissions at the University of Bath and an admissions reader at Johns Hopkins University. Her clients have gained admission to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD. She has helped more than 100 people earn top MBA admits. She works with clients on every continent except Antarctica.
Beatriz Gorostiaga
Beatriz Gorostiaga is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international applicants build strong applications. She graduated from Harvard Business School in 2025 and went through the MBA process as an international applicant herself. She has worked in financial services, non-profits and tech ventures in the U.S. and Latin America. She has also mentored international students applying to U.S. colleges through the EducationUSA program since 2017.
Begum Cital
Begum Cital is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, interviews and overall application strategy. She is a Harvard Business School Class of 2025 graduate. She was admitted to both HBS and MIT Sloan, and she won a scholarship at Sloan. She moved from Turkey to the U.S. for college. She focuses on nontraditional and international candidates, and she coaches Turkish applicants in Turkish. She has logged 1,530 minutes of coaching.
Ben Hackner
Ben Hackner coaches aspiring MBAs and consulting candidates on case interviews and MBA admissions. He worked at Boston Consulting Group and in sales strategy at Salesforce. He later joined the corporate strategy team at SSA Marine, a Blackstone portfolio company. He has run hundreds of case prep sessions with students at top programs like Kellogg and with private clients. He also supports candidates from diverse and Latino recruiting pipelines through MLT programs.
Ben Lazaroff
Ben Lazaroff is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, strategy, resumes, test prep and interviews. He has advised more than 400 admits into schools like Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, INSEAD and Haas. He worked at McKinsey, in Chicago city government and in Bain's Private Equity Group. He is a Stanford GSB graduate based in New York City. He also plays chess professionally.
Bill Chionis
Bill Chionis is an MBA admissions consultant who helps professionals apply to top business schools. He has worked with over 1000 traditional and non-traditional candidates. Hundreds of them won admission to M7 programs. Before consulting, he built a career in aerospace materials research and product management, and he earned his own MBA at the Merage School of Management. He now coaches applicants through Leland.
Brandon Monteith
Brandon Monteith is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches rising leaders on career moves. He helps people break into competitive programs and roles and sharpen their stories. Brandon led Infinite Athlete's exit to Exos, where he ran M&A, commercial strategy, finance and investor relations. He worked at McKinsey, PepsiCo and the Atlanta Hawks earlier in his career. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and connects the sports, tech and investment communities.
Brandon Tran
Brandon Tran is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with resumes, essays, and storytelling. He has worked with more than 30 MBA clients and has logged 9,885 minutes of coaching. He was admitted to Stanford GSB through its deferred MBA program. He works full time as a management consultant at KPMG. As a first-generation student, he knows the application process from the applicant's side.
Bri Mirabile
Bri Mirabile is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants turn their experience into a clear story. Before graduate school, Bri worked in government consulting and advised state health agencies on Medicaid innovation. Bri also coaches clients who want offers and MBA sponsorships at Big 4 firms like Deloitte and Accenture. Clients have been admitted to Harvard Kennedy School and MIT's MSRED. Bri is a dual-degree student at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan.
Brian Bernstein
Brian Bernstein is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He is a Wharton MBA graduate with honors and a former Admissions Fellow. He worked in investment banking before business school. He has helped more than 30 MBA clients. He was admitted to all 3 schools he applied to and won scholarships from two top programs. He works best with applicants from finance backgrounds.
Brit Harding
Brit Harding is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on early career tech sales and job applications. Brit spent the first 5 years of a career in tech sales at LinkedIn, Okta and Podium. Brit rose from sales development rep to Account Director at LinkedIn, then earned an MBA at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Brit interned at Nike and returns there full time in Summer 2026. Brit also has sports marketing and partnerships experience.
Bryan Chao
Bryan Chao is an MBA admissions consultant who also teaches test prep for the GMAT, GRE, SAT and ACT. He helps applicants build one clear story from their career, experiences and goals. He has coached 50 MBA applicants aiming at top 10 programs over 12 years. His own career covered M&A, venture capital and startup operations in the U.S. and China. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and scored a 770 on the GMAT twice.
Caitlin Andersen
Caitlin Andersen is an independent educational consultant who helps working professionals, current students and recent grads get into top business master's programs. She founded Auxilium Education in Tampa, Florida. Caitlin holds an MBA from Oxford's Saïd Business School and has guided graduate applicants since 2018. She chairs the Business Roundtable for the IECA Graduate Committee. Her clients have earned interviews and admits at schools such as Chicago Booth, Cornell Tech and LSE.
Caitlin Breen
Caitlin Breen is an MBA admissions consultant and consulting interview coach. She helps applicants get into top business schools and prepare for case interviews at consulting firms. She earned offers from Bain, McKinsey and BCG while at Kellogg. She was accepted at Kellogg, Booth and Fuqua with over $250K in scholarships. She later led Kellogg on-campus recruiting and served as an alumni interviewer.
Cathy Manlow
Cathy Manlow is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates get into global business schools. She earned her own MBA at INSEAD and now interviews applicants for the school. Before that, she worked on Wall Street and in the gourmet chocolate world. She has coached candidates since 2018. Her clients have gained admission to INSEAD, LBS, Bocconi, Booth, Wharton, HEC Paris, IESE, Cambridge Judge, Oxford Said and NYU Stern.
Cayo Gonzalez
Cayo Gonzalez is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays and personal narrative. Cayo holds a Stanford MD/MBA and works at Boston Consulting Group. Before focusing on MBA admissions, Cayo coached medical school applicants. Clients have gained admission to schools including Wharton and Stanford GSB. Cayo has worked with more than 10 MBA clients and offers sessions on weekends, with weekday times in Eastern Time arranged as needed.
Charbel Bou Younes
Charbel Bou Younes is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps clients with recruiting for finance and consulting. He earned admits to both Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He worked in management consulting at BCG, where he became the youngest Project Leader in BCG Middle East history. He also worked in long/short equities at Citadel. He coaches in English or Arabic.
Charlene You
Charlene You is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches candidates for consulting interviews. She helps ambitious professionals get into top MBA programs or land roles at leading consulting firms. She served as a Wharton Admissions Fellow, so she knows how admissions committees read applications. She currently takes a limited number of clients for Round 3 MBA applications.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
Charlotte Weiss
Charlotte Weiss is an MBA admissions consultant who helps young professionals get into business school. She graduated from Stanford GSB in 2021 and now works as an Operating Executive at Alpine Investors. At Stanford she was President of the Native Business Students Association and CMO of student government. She focuses on strong essays and clear storytelling.
Chichi A
Chichi A is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps with MPP and JD applications. Chichi works in real estate finance at an affordable housing operator and worked in Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group. Chichi won admission to Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Kellogg and Harvard Kennedy School in one cycle, with full-tuition scholarships at three. Chichi has 10 years of admissions and career coaching experience and has worked with 20+ applicants in the U.S. and Nigeria.
Chloe Tinagero
Chloe Tinagero is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build a clear story for top business schools. She holds an HBS MBA and worked as a brand strategist in advertising for more than 5 years. She applied to business school with just five months before Round 1 deadlines. She earned admission to 5 top-10 programs, including Harvard Business School. She helps with story development, essay editing, school positioning, and interviews.
Christian Hansen
Christian Hansen is a full-time admissions counselor who helps students get into college, MBA and master's programs. He is a former Associate Director of the MBA program at UC Irvine and a former member of BYU's Admissions Committee. He also ran internships for LG Electronics in South Korea and China. He wrote the book The Influence Mindset and uses its ideas to teach students personal influence. He says every one of his students got into one of their top 3 programs.
Christine Nguyen
Christine Nguyen is an admissions counselor who helps students with college and MBA applications. She is a current Wharton MBA/Lauder student. Before business school she spent four years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman. She won offers from Wharton/Lauder, Kellogg and Booth, with scholarship support. She is a first-generation college graduate from Oklahoma, so she knows the process without a family guide. She helps students build a clear story behind their résumé.
Claire Qin
Claire Qin is an MBA admissions consultant and executive coach. She helps applicants shape their story and sharpen their positioning, and she coaches leaders through career moves. She holds a Stanford MBA and spent a decade in senior roles at Amazon, Uber, Sylvera and Morgan Stanley. She has trained in organisational psychology at the NHS Tavistock Clinic. She has also coached senior leaders and MBA students in INSEAD's Personal Leadership Development Programme.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school admissions. She founded EduPlan in 2004 and has over 15 years of admissions counseling experience. She works one-on-one with every student and leads a team of editors and writing specialists. Her practice is in Hollywood, Florida, and she has served clients in countries from India and Brazil to Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Colin Weidmann
Colin Weidmann is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans and other non-traditional applicants. He is a Stanford GSB graduate and a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer with 11 years of service. He got into Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School and Wharton himself. He has coached veterans into Stanford GSB, Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Booth and Haas. He also works as a Chief of Staff at a private equity-backed healthcare company.
College Essay Advisors
College Essay Advisors is a New York team that coaches students on admissions essays. Advisors work one-on-one with applicants to plan, edit and refine their essays. The team has advised for more than 10 years and covers undergraduate, graduate, medical, business, law, international and private school applications. They also publish a book, a podcast, video tutorials and prompt guides for the Common App, supplements and UC essays.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Grad School Road Map | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Akin Obiri | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Sabrina Fathi | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Sowa Imoisili | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Spencer Shih | MBA admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Tomilola Abiodun | MBA admissions and International students | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Abby Troy | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Abigail Hagan | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Adam Hoff | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Ade Dedeke | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Aditi Singh | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| AdmissionSight | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Admissionado | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Admit Expert | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Adwoa Boateng | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for MBA admissions cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $244 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include ivy league and top schools, college essays, grad school and PhD and college admissions.
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Last updated September 2026.