I hired Kelsey to help me with Consortium Round 1 for CBS with the $1000 Pre-Submission Package.

Before going with Kelsey, I met with a few other admissions consultants through Leland. The Leland intro calls are only 15 minutes, which just isn't enough time to get to know someone. Kelsey offers a 1 hour long free consultation, and she really got to know me and my story organically, and in a very warm way, without sacrificing honesty. I highly recommend at least doing the initial consult, because she can answer a lot of questions for you in that hour together. She also never tried to upsell any of the other services, which I also appreciated.

After opting to go with Kelsey, I submitted a TON of materials to her, including my Consortium essays (a whole other set of essays) and two letters of rec my recommenders shared with me. She reviewed EVERYTHING in a little over a day, including very detailed reviews of transcript, resume, etc (which can get loss in the essay shuffle). She shared a doc of 10 pages of feedback, and then met with me for ~45 minutes on Zoom (vs. 30 minutes advertised). Essentially, she is very generous with her services, which was amazing! I think her thorough feedback was critical to me sharpening a lot of my admissions package - I reworked a lot of essays, meaningfully improved a second recommender's letter, and totally revised my resume using her guidance. I even took the GRE with her encouragement (after taking the GMAT FE). Throughout the process, she also answered many, many random questions I had, and just provided a lot of moral support in a very ambiguous and stressful process.

I ended up getting full-tuition scholarships at both CBS and Stern, so it was 100% worth that upfront investment.

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