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SERVICES NAVIGATION: 1. FREE ANALYSIS 2. COMPETITIVE APPRAISAL 3. PROFILING, POSITIONING 4. ESSAY REVIEW & EDITING 5. INTERVIEWS, RECOS, etc. INTEGRATED PACKAGES			All services are elite, exclusive, 1-to-1 phone and/or essay review sessions with MBA admissions expert and coach, Avi Gordon. There are no juniors, nobody being trained on your dime. FREE ESSAY REVIEW Any 500-word essay, reviewed with full comments. Sample OR FREE SPOT ASSESSMENT: We review your resume, file data, and background info, to give you a fast-turn straight-talk assessment of where you are strong, what still needs work, and how to move forward.
			SECTION 1 COMPETITIVE ADMISSIONS APPRAISAL Typical Applicant Situation: ï¿½I need to talk to someone who can give me the bottom-line, no-BS deal on how competitive MBA admissions works; what schools really look for and why (and how I rate against this, given my background, capabilities, and experiences) so I can put my time and effort in the right place, and can get into a better school.ï¿½ MBA ADMISSIONS INSIGHTS, APPROACHES & TACTICS By phone & email: we discuss the range of admissions topics pertinent to you, including: the tactical concerns in managing your particular situation behind-the-scenes insight into how admissions works what the admissions committee seeks and why what each element of the MBA application really ask of you real Gmat requirements and how your score affects you choice & priming of recommenders application timing issues pitfalls and red flags relevant to your application And so on. We apply relevant insights from thousands of previous applicants to your particular situation and chosen schools. We consider your background, skills, experiences, and goals in the light of the various types of MBA schools and program options that exist and advise on the programs you are best suited to and are likely to make a competitive application to. One hour: $240 or, unlimited through the applications season: $480 DING ANALYSIS & REAPPLICANT RECOMMENDATIONS By phone or written report (your choice): You get an analysis of a previous unsuccessful application, to identify what went wrong and why. We show you where the strengths and weaknesses were, guide you to avoid making the same mistakes again, and help you improve your applicant profile and develop a new positioning. Ding analysis: $380
			SECTION 2 CANDIDATE PROFILING & POSITIONING Typical Applicant Situation: ï¿½I'm starting my essays. I need to find the strengths in my profile, and my value points, and build these into an clear application message that positions me competitively in the essays and interviews. I need to get all the parts of my background working together, and working for me.ï¿½ PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL PROFILING; VALUE POINTS ASSESSMENT; PROFILE BUILDING; THEME AND MESSAGE DEVELOPMENT; APPLICANT POSITIONING This is the core of a successful application. We show you how to make the most of who you are and what you've done in the past, and what you could credibly do in the future. This includes understanding which background components and achievements are relevant, interesting, and valuable to adcom, and finding them in your past record. We extract key themes and a core message from your profile and develop this into a "positioning" that best promotes you. We explore, consolidate, refine, and package your claim for selection. This becomes the basis of your statement of purpose and other essays. When you understand your profile strengths and profile message, your application becomes clearer and more forceful. Your essays become simpler, more concrete, and easier to write (and read). Includes: Profiling Worksheet You get our structured question set that shows you how to determine your personal and professional profile strengths, weaknesses, and relative position, following an intuitive tabular format. Includes: Value Points Worksheet You get a worksheet that isolates the features and attributes Adcoms seek, so you can rate yourself against them and determine where you need to focus your application, and what areas you should strengthen. Includes: 1-to-1 Profiling Session by Phone We work with you individually to bring together all the elements of your story into a coherent, structure profile, identify your application themes, position and differentiate you vs competitor applicants, and ready you for the essays and interview. Includes: Essay Question Set Analysis Once you are clearly and competitively positioned, you need to get this across in the essays. We extract the simple and compound question archetypes present in the question set you face. We describe what is being sought in each essay, and how to approach it. Includes: Content Preview, Essay Mapping & Outlining We help you create an outline for each essay, to organize, structure, and signpost it. We structure your argument and integrate your key themes into the answer. We help you decide what to say in which essay, to develop a consistent, reinforcing message across the entire essay set. Full profiling: $780
			SECTION 3: ESSAY MAKEOVER [REVIEW & EDITING] Typical Applicant Situation: ï¿½I know my profile and my value points. I'm clearly and competitively positioned. I've written a first draft of my essays. Now I need to know whether the essays work or not, or where they need reworking and strengthening.ï¿½ Essay reviews contain the following: ESSAY CONTENT AND STRUCTURE REVIEW We review and rework the structure and content of your draft. We help you refocus and change emphasis where necessary, so that the essay captures and communicates your value and positioning more clearly. We organize and rebuild your essay structure, if necessary. We make sure you avoid known pitfalls. WRITING ENHANCEMENT We cut low-content air bubbles without compromising meaning, giving you more space to make statements of value. We help you find and develop imagery and stories. Where necessary we point out where copy can be written to improve direction and flow. STYLE, GRAMMAR, AND EXPRESSION EDITING We polish your essays to the highest standards of style, expression, and linguistic and grammatical correctness. We clarify and enhance sentence construction, word choice, and paragraph flow, and even out word register and the essay's overall tone. Note: It normally takes two to three reviews to get an essay right. Round one reviews and builds content, structure, and profile strategy. Then you rework your essay. The second review focuses on expression, style, grammar, and final polish. Depending on how you work, and what your essay is like to start with, a third review may be necessary. Per essay: First review $120 Second & subsequent reviews $60 An essay is any text of 500 words or less (Adcom guide). Pro-rata applies to longer essays Essays of 150 words or less are half price
			SECTION 4: INTERVIEW, RECOMMENDATIONS & MORE Typical Applicant Situation: ï¿½Okay, my essays are great. Now how do I leverage this across the rest of my application. How do I get everything as good as these essays, and working together with them?ï¿½ INTERVIEW REHEARSAL We do a practice interview, followed by feedback & interview development. You get tips in how to get your profile message and application themes across to the interviewer no matter what questions you receive. You get experience in question (underlying question) recognition, and practice fielding tricky questions while making your points connect to your larger goal and staying "on message". Rehearsal: $280 RECOMMENDER SELECTION & PREP We help you tactically evaluate, select, and brief your recommenders, to get your recos to dovetail with your application, reinforcing highlights and plugging holes. This includes evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of different recommenders. Reco prep: $280 RESUME REVIEW We look at your resume from an admissions viewpoint, and edit to target it appropriately and competitively for b-school admission. Unlimited reviews. Per review: $180 SHORT QUESTIONS We review & edit your short questions (file data & paragraph essays) answers to extract the maximum benefit from them, and to position them consistently with your essays and references. Unlimited reviews. Short Questions: $280 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION We work with you on essays and whatever else is required to make a compelling scholarship application. Unlimited reviews. Scholarship: $280
			SECTION 5: INTEGRATED PACKAGES PER-SCHOOL Discounted packages apply when three or more schools are purchased together at one time. Discounted 4- or 5-school packages are also available on request. Option A: Positioning, Essay Development & Editing Includes: 1. ESSAY EDITING: content review 2. ESSAY EDITING: Structure, placement, and flow 3. ESSAY EDITING: style, grammar, and expression [4. UNLIMITED essay reviews] First school: $980 3-school package: $1880 Option B: Profiling, Profile Development, Positioning, Essay Development & Editing Includes: 1. PROFILING WORKSHEET: theme and message development 2. VALUE POINTS WORKSHEET: value development 3. CANDIDATE PROFILING: 1-to-1 profiling session; profile building 4. ESSAY QUESTION SET ANALYSIS and content preview 5. ESSAY MAPPING AND OUTLINING: applicant positioning 6. ESSAY EDITING: content review 7. ESSAY EDITING: Structure, placement, and flow 8. ESSAY EDITING: style, grammar, and expression [9. UNLIMITED essay reviews] First school: $1380 3-school package: $2580 Option C: Profiling, Profile Development, Positioning, Essay Development & Editing, and more. Includes: 1. PROFILING WORKSHEET: theme and message development 2. VALUE POINTS WORKSHEET: value development 3. CANDIDATE PROFILING: 1-to-1 profiling session; profile building 4. ESSAY QUESTION SET ANALYSIS and content preview 5. ESSAY MAPPING AND OUTLINING: applicant positioning 6. ESSAY CONTENT: content review 7. ESSAY EDITING: writing rebuild, and enhancement 8. ESSAY EDITING: style, grammar, and expression editing [9. UNLIMITED essay reviews] *Plus any two of the following four:* 10. RECOMMENDATIONS: recommender selection, prep, and review 11. SHORT QUESTIONS: file data and paragraph essays 12. RESUME REVIEW: one page resume 13. INTERVIEW REHEARSAL: practice interview and coaching. One per school. First school: $1780 3-school package: $3380 Option D: Everything, Unlimited, Comprehensive. Includes: 1. COMPETITIVE ADMISSIONS APPRAISAL / DING ANALYSIS 2. PROFILING WORKSHEET: theme and message development 3. VALUE POINTS WORKSHEET: value development 4. CANDIDATE PROFILING: 1-to-1 profiling session; profile building 5. ESSAY QUESTION SET ANALYSIS and content preview 6. ESSAY MAPPING AND OUTLINING: applicant positioning 7. ESSAY EDITING: content review 8. ESSAY EDITING: Structure, placement, and flow 9. ESSAY EDITING: style, grammar, and expression 10. RECOMMENDATIONS: recommender selection, preview, & review 11. SHORT QUESTIONS: file data and paragraph essays 12. RESUME REVIEW 13. INTERVIEW REHEARSAL: practice interview and coaching. Two per school. 14. SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION [15. UNLIMITED essay, reference, resume, and question reviews] First school: $2180 3-school package: $4280
			MBA Studio works all around the world: prices here in $US for convenience. Prices may be adjusted in cases requiring extensive English-language assistance. Rush, weekend, or high-season charges may apply. Price adjustments may be made without notice and will apply to any new purchases. Turnaround is 48 hours in most cases. Free reviews are provided as trial-of-service and may be withdrawn if the prospective client has no apparent need for further services. As client work takes priority, free essay reviews or free spot assessments are seldom done on a rush basis. Client confidentiality and data is strictly guarded. Provision of services is not a guarantee of admission. Back to top

ï¿½ The MBA Admissions Studio, 2008

APPLICANT FEEDBACK

Applicant:
Looking back, what made the difference is I didnï¿½t waste time spinning my wheels. After we defined each [essay] the rest was like filling in the blanks.
ï¿½ accepted to Harvard.

Applicant:
Avi, I am admitted to NYU Stern! I am absolutely thrilled!! Finally, I am going somewhere after two years of trying. Thank you very much for your profiling/editing service and advice on my reapplication. I know I could not have done it without your help. Once again thanks very much and I will keep you posted on other results.
ï¿½ accepted to NYU Stern

Applicant:
You are splendid, magnificent, excellent! I cannot find the proper word to express how much I appreciate your valuable help to me. You are so good! I have updated based on ALL your suggestions... Hey, you can really make a difference. Very strong leadership ;) ...Your advice is my MBA bible! I think you really have the sharp eye for MBA applications. I really appreciate your valuable points. You are a really great mentor on my MBA applications.... Thank you once again for your great help! Thank you thank you thank you!."
ï¿½ (from emails from one client) accepted to Wharton.

Applicant:
"I just wanted to thank you for your help. You might not remember me in your sea of clients, but I sure do remember and appreciate your help. I got admitted into Haas and class actually starts tomorrow. I couldn't have done it without you. After listening to the speeches during orientation, I'm almost positive that the profile you chose to emphasize was what got me in. You completely hit the jackpot. I can't thank you enough, especially considering I couldn't have gotten it all done in 8 days without your help.
ï¿½ accepted to Haas, Berkeley.

Applicant:
I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I've been accepted at ESSEC's MBA in Luxury Brand Management! I got the call from Paris last week, after flying there for my interview last month. It was quite an experience, but I got through it and they have given me a place. Term starts in Sept, so I will be off to Paris end August. I'm ecstatic with the news and have lots of planning to do. But I just wanted to thank you for your help in my application. It was great working with you."
ï¿½ accepted to ESSEC.

Applicant:
"I am glad that I chose the right service to guide me through the application process. With [your] help, I completed my applications with confidence and enthusiasm. It has been a challenging, yet rewarding experience!"
ï¿½ accepted to Kellogg.

Applicant:
"I just wanted to let you know that I was offered admission to Cornell and [my husband] to Columbia so we are both very happy that we got in and of course that we'll be starting school in the fall. Thanks again for helping us"
ï¿½ Accepted to Cornell.

The MBA Admissions Studio has hundreds of verifiable, satisfied clients. These are a few samples of applicant report-backs. Information may be verified by contacting the MBA Admissions Studio.