Highly Recommend Donna and Stratus

Strengths:

- Incredibly thorough
- Highly knowledgeable about nuances of the application process and school specific processes
- Very personal - always felt like a priority and never felt as though they took on too many clients
- Proofreader and school specific readers were very helpful

I cannot recommend Donna and Stratus enough. When starting my application, I was really in the dark, and knew very little of how the process worked and I had a good, but not spectacular profile so I was really looking for somebody who primarily could lead me through the process and help me put together the best application.

Not only did Donna serve as the perfect guide, she really helped me flesh out my story, but she actually strengthened my interest in attending business school in general. When I started out, I knew I was interested in the MBA experience and wanted to change career paths, but wouldn't have been able to succinctly explain why; however, by the time I was through my introspection and strategy exercises, I felt not only prepared, be more excited about the opportunity than ever.

The piece of my application Donna most improved was the essays. Her story writing ability is incredible and she was very patient as we wrote and rewrote, edited, and revised, over and over, creating dozens of iterations of my essays in the process. If I am being honest, there is no chance the essays I initially wrote would have gotten an acceptance at any of the schools I applied to.

Above all else though, the thing about Donna that I believe truly sets her apart from any other consultant is how much she cares. I first noticed it when she would casually remember aspects of my life totally separate from my application or her connecting me with former clients, but it carried over throughout the whole process, right to the end when she pulled in favors on a day off to get an essay and resume proofread so that I could still apply on time after I had misunderstood a deadline.

I would not have had the successful admissions results that I did without Donna and I cannot thank her enough for her guidance and support.