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Product mbaMission onTrack by mbaMission
Consultant Katharine Lewis
Strengths:
Review of onTrack Product:
- Covers the whole application process
- Provides the overall view and how to position your story based on your background and goals
- Dives deep into each school, its values, culture, academics, location, etc.
- Discusses each school application steps with detail
- Provides interview simulation environment, with questions specific for that school
- Provides curated materials that save a lot of time (e.g. link to student ambassadors pages for each school was very useful when you want to get in touch with students)
Would make the product better:
Cover more schools!
Review for Katharine Lewis:
I come from a background and country where people rarely consider getting an MBA from US, let alone getting into top MBA programs. But I wanted to try. First, I tried on my own and could not go anywhere. So I decided to get advice and see if I have a chance. I had a 30 minutes discussion with Katy and later she reviewed my materials and pointed out the issues in my previous application. She candidly mentioned the risks and realistic chances of someone with my background getting into top MBA schools (which is not that high). I insisted and luckily, she agreed to help despite the risks.
This time, with Katy's help, I managed to get into great schools: CBS, Kellogg, Haas, Johnson, Marshall (Also waitlisted for NYU and 2 others), with scholarships ranging from 25% to 100%.
Katy helped me in almost every step of the way. From listing and reviewing my personal life events and my history, to brainstorming ideas and storytelling, drafting and refining essays, who to pick as recommender and how to approach them, interviews and even asking for scholarships!
Katy is a great coach. Whenever I felt stuck, I asked Katy for her opinion and she would ask questions to explore the situation and then we discussed possible scenarios, fallback plans and strategies. Getting recommendations was one of the hardest parts of the application for me. Katy helped me prioritize potential recommenders and create a proper timeplan in case my first recommenders got too busy or did not want to help.
Katy is also a great friend and companion. Even though the focus of our work was the MBA application, she listened carefully to all my life stories, experiences and she understood my situation. Since Katy knew so much about me and my goals, she offered a lot of useful advice about which schools would match my personality given the culture and network around them.
Review of onTrack Product:
It was a great companion during my application process, from creating my overall story to minute details of different schools. I used it in every step: Learning about schools, story telling about my life and goals, refining story for each school, filling the application form and finally, preparing for the interviews.
Saved me a lot of time with the content that was gathered and curated. Things like Insider Guides, application forms & questions, example of weak and strong essays, examples of interview questions & responses, student contact pages, etc. If I wanted to gather all this info by myself, it would take a HUGE amount of time from me. But thanks to these curated info, I used the extra time to get in touch with students, attend adcom info sessions and online coffee chats etc.
I applied to 10 schools in r1 (I'm EXHAUSTED! :D ), got invited to interview in every school that I applied, except one.