Your search can and should stop with Rachel

Background: 695 GMAT FE, 5Y big tech work experience, and a 3.8 GPA in college.

I was referred to Gatehouse and Rachel through a friend and I didn't want to just go with the first person I spoke to, so I reached out to a few different advisors (both at Gatehouse and other firms) and I kept finding myself coming back to Rachel. From our first conversation, I felt a mutual respect and a sense that she was ready to truly be my coach and partner-in-crime throughout this insane process.

Rachel has this unique ability to hear you talk about your life and somehow help YOU find the thread you might not have even known was there. I wouldn't call myself an incredible writer, but she always assured me that she would review as many drafts as I needed, and with each draft, her comments were pointed (sometimes even harsh), but they were always there to sharpen my ideas and push me to think through the WHY of what I was putting on paper.

She also doesn't take any BS. As you likely already know, this process can make you spiral, and Rachel was the person who kept me grounded. We'd debate different aspects of my app and sometimes she was right, sometimes I was, but the best way I can describe working with her was a real partnership.

And the small stuff matters too, the good luck texts before interviews or decision days or the fast turnarounds on short essays to the random late night questions that popped into mind. And now reflecting on all of it, I can confidently say I wouldn't be attending GSB next year without her.