Katharine is an INCREDIBLE consultant who helped me land multiple offers to MBA programs - I ultimately committed to Wharton. I was advised to wait a year to apply as I started my test prep on the later side, but Katharine took the time to go through my story and craft multiple competitive applications I was confident showcased my best work. Do not underestimate how introspective those applications are! I cannot recommend Katharine enough.

It is evident that Katharine truly cares about the success of her clients, in part because she has seen first hand how business school has changed the lives/career paths of her own classmates and clients over the years. Besides helping me get in to business school, she further convinced me that the 2 years was absolutely worth it for me, regardless if my exact career goals shift. When I was deciding between schools, she gave me concrete examples of what I could take advantage of if I attended that school, from classes and clubs to semesters abroad and specific initiatives.

I was worried about standing out in a pool of investment bankers from NYC - but Katharine took the TIME to understand my story and helped me craft a compelling and accurate narrative of why I stand out and what unique insights I could bring to the classroom- professionally and personally. She knows how these schools operate and think, and helped me create a target list of schools, draft recommendation packets to guide my recommenders and so much more. the MBAmission onTrack videos are also incredibly helpful to listen to. I couldn't have done it without her! 

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I’m a college senior who worked with Katy for deferred MBAs. Katy is a very detailed oriented consultant. She offered me a lot of knowledge and insight on how to talk with recommenders and write stories that strings together my activities! Katy meticulously read over all my essay drafts and gave detailed suggestions. She was also kind to give me multiple practices for the interviews I got! I applied to 5 schools, got interviews with Stanford, MIT, and Kellogg, and ultimately got admitted to Kellogg. Katy is very experienced with MBA applications and I think she has a lot to offer as a consultant!

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Working with Katharine Lewis (Katy) was one of the best decisions I made in my MBA journey. As a career changer transitioning from law to business and applying from London in Round 3, I knew the odds weren’t in my favor—especially when it came to top-tier programs like Stanford GSB. But from the very first conversation, Katy saw my potential and never wavered in her belief that I had a compelling story to tell. When other consultants were sceptical, Katy was already strategizing.

Her insight into the MBA admissions process is truly priceless. She helped me shape my narrative thoughtfully and authentically, guiding me through every stage—from school selection to essays, interviews, and beyond. Her turnaround times were incredibly fast, and her feedback was always sharp, honest, and actionable.

What stood out the most was how she invested in me. Katy isn’t just an MBA consultant—she’s a career advisor, a coach, and an unwavering ally. She was my lifeline during the most stressful moments, and I always knew that no matter what came my way, we’d face it together. She helped me land interviews at both Stanford GSB and USC Marshall in Round 3—something I never thought possible, but she did.

Katy is unstoppable. She’s a total badass who brings heart, strategy, and fire to the table. I can’t recommend her highly enough.

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There are MBA consultants and then there’s Katy. She is truly one of a kind and, without a doubt, the absolute best in the business.

I started working with her during the HBS interview stage because I wanted a bit of extra prep support. I don’t usually go for consultants or spend on outside help, but working with her ended up being one of the best decisions I made during the entire MBA process. From the very beginning, she stood out. Katy is incredibly sharp, thoughtful and genuinely fun to work with. What blew me away most was how deeply she understands the admissions process at schools like HBS - every insight she shared felt precise, strategic and tailored exactly to what I needed at each stage. She knew how to guide me through the interview, and even more impressively, through the unpredictable and extremely stressful waitlist process.

But what truly sets Katy apart is how much she cares. She was beyond generous with her time, never once making it feel like a transactional relationship. I felt like I had a coach, mentor and real friend who genuinely wanted to see me succeed. With Katy’s guidance - and a little bit of luck - I got off the HBS waitlist!

If you’re getting ready to apply, need some extra interview support or have been waitlisted and want not just the best consultant out there to guide you but someone who will be in your corner every step of the way, work with Katy. She is the real deal and truly in a league of her own.

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I feel fortunate to have worked with Katy on my re-application to the Stanford GSB and MIT Sloan. Working with Katy was an outstanding experience from start to finish. From our very first free consultation, it was clear that Katy not only had a deep understanding of the MBA admissions process, but also was genuinely passionate about helping clients succeed.

Katy really understood me – my background as an applicant from Asia, my career aspirations and what motivates me. I would recommend anyone to work with Katy if they are looking for someone who can guide them not only through the applications, but also through a journey of self-discovery. Katy was professional, friendly and encouraging throughout our time working together. Thank you Katy!

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I might be biased, but Katy Lewis is simply the best. She helped me get into Stanford GSB, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, and a few other top10 programs with half- and full- merit-based tuition scholarships.
As an older candidate in the biotech industry, and a Chinese candidate, I know it is very challenging to get into top MBA programs, not to mention half and full rides. But Katy helped me realize my dream.
I feel extremely lucky to have the opportunity to work with Katy on my applications. I would never get into Stanford GSB without her. There are SO MANY things that I am grateful for her, and here are a few key takeaways:
1. The brainstorming sessions. For me, this is probably the most valuable experience working with her. I remember I sent her a 30-page brainstorming document and she read it all and subsequently spent 4 hours with me to figure out my story and my differentiators. It helped me connect the dots, and made me realize the pattern of my life events and the theme of my story. It also inspired me to dive deep into my past experiences and learn how to tell my story. I loved the theme she helped me developed and till this day, I still believe that it truly reflects who I am as a person. And it also constantly serves as a reminder that I need to continue to scaffold on what I have built
2. The editing. She has a fast turnaround time, even when she is on vacation! When I was waitlisted by Stanford GSB and rejected by HBS in round 1, she offered to look at my round 2 materials for free when she was on vacation during Christmas! I really appreciate it. In addition, she is one of the best writers and very detail-oriented! In some of my documents, she even found that I spelled my boss's name wrong!
3. The mock interviews. There are so many useful materials on OnTrack, and I loved these. But my absolute favorite material is her own PowerPoint summaries - very detailed instruction, and very useful tips, and I used it as a "bible" for my interviews. I also loved our mock interview sessions and how she help me phrase my answers and tell my stories.
4. Last but not least, she is such a kind and wonderful person! Extremely smart, and deeply cares about her clients. She is a great mentor and friend! It was a long process and I am grateful that I have her as my mentor!
Highly recommend her!

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It’s a difficult task to be able to summarize an entire business school application process into a single testimonial; it’s an even more challenging task to distill a person’s entire breadth of personal and professional experiences into a series of compelling essays and short answer questions that sneak in just under a restrictive word limit. Katy was able to masterfully do just that, and then some.

On paper, I come from a very traditional and overrepresented professional background when it comes to business school applicants (investment banking / private equity). But I also had a lot of unique and seemingly unrelated interests and experiences that I, at least, hoped could differentiate me if I could figure out how to actually tell them. That was always my biggest anxiety when setting out to begin my application process: I had a complicated story that risked being “all over the place” and incoherent if told incorrectly. I was also on the fence about working with an admissions consultant having never worked with one before. I did introductory meetings with around 10 consultants across a number of firms and none were quite able to see the “real me” behind the traditional background quite like Katy was. I met with Katy twice, but I knew after our first 30-minute intro call that I wanted to work with her. I felt like she was really able to “see” me and my story, which was an immediate weight off of my shoulders.

I won’t shortchange the difficulty of the application process, but Katy really did a wonderful job segmenting it into “digestible” bites to tackle, and she staged it in a way such that I never felt overwhelmed or behind schedule, even with an extremely demanding job. Pretty quickly, Katy was able to masterfully weave a series of disparate an unrelated experiences into a single, cohesive narrative, plucking the right threads from each in a way that I know I would have struggled to do on my own. This, alone, made the whole experience of working with her worth it for me. But it didn’t stop there; Katy was always available to answer my one-off questions and pull form her experience having sat on the “other side of the table” at Stanford. I very much valued her opinion and guidance when it came to the process-related questions and with how to best position my application.

When it was all said and done, I applied to Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton, I was invited to interview at all three, and I was admitted to 2 of the schools and waitlisted at the third. While I am obviously ecstatic with the outcome, before hearing back from the schools I was actually quite calm. I knew that, regardless of what the outcome would be, that I had put my best foot forward. And I knew that, with Katy’s help, I was able to put together an application that I was really happy with and confident in submitting. I am fairly certain that I would have had neither the smooth application process nor the outcome that I did without Katy’s help. For that, I will be forever grateful.

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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.

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Katharine's support to my admission to GSB and Wharton was unparalleled. I applied from a traditional finance and demographic background, making it particularly important to me to differentiate myself from other candidates. Through brainstorming sessions with Katharine I was able to iterate on a story that in the process help me discover my authentic voice that eventually is what I believed resonated with the admission committee. In addition, her experience as a consultant truly came through when she was able to make me aware of resources at the different universities that I could highlight in my application. In addition to determining the right strategy, Katharine also will get into the weeds with you, iterating on all aspects of the application as many times as you want. I remember days before the application I would send countless emails on changing few words here and there and she would always be responsive without complaint. Most importantly, and what I believe really differentiates Katharine from the rest, is her unparalleled commitment to you as a person. Katharine took a vested interest me in as a person and went out of her way to connect me with people that would be valuable not only for my application process, but also my personal professional goals. Her commitment really came through when 48hrs before my Wharton application, when she probably was under stress from a lot of her clients, she still provided candid feedback that led to significant changes in my essay because she wanted to make sure we didn't compromise on the quality of the final product. Hours before the application deadline, she then helped me put the final touches on the application, and the efforts paid off with an admission to the university. The last piece was the interview process, during which Katharine agreed to have as many mock sessions I wanted and many of the pointers she gave me actually played out during the interview and resonated with my interviewer. Once again, Katharine highlighted her desire to go above and beyond by trying to find people who had previously been interviewed by my interviewer to personalize my experience as much as possible. Katharine's expertise as an MBA application coach is obviously unparallel, but once again reiterate her commitment to you as a person and genuine desire to go above and beyond for your success. I am truly grateful for Katharine and would not have succeeded without her support.

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Interviewing always felt like the most daunting part of the MBA application process, so I signed up for coaching sessions with Katy primarily to prep for the notorious HBS interview. Not only did Katy ask questions that closely resembled my actual interview, but crucially she helped me perfect my answers and gave me the encouragement I needed to enter the real thing with total confidence!

Given Katy’s personal experience as an HBS alum, she was especially helpful in articulating exactly what makes HBS special, what the adcom is looking for, and how someone with a non-traditional background like myself (tech industry) should present their story. I really appreciated the thought Katy put into crafting a series of questions tailored to my application and her detailed feedback after each mock. Katy successfully demystified the HBS interview and truly transformed me as an interviewee! Beyond the practical help, Katy is simply lovely to work with – she is encouraging, super sharp, extremely knowledgeable, and genuinely connects with her clients.

The skills I honed with Katy didn’t just prepare me for HBS, they carried over into my GSB interview too, and I was ultimately accepted to both programs!! I could not have done it without Katy and I recommend her wholeheartedly to anyone prepping for interviews. She puts in the time, truly cares, and knows exactly how to elevate your game to the next level!

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