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MBA Admissions

MBA admissions is not just about having impressive credentials. It is about creating a career narrative that makes sense. Ivy Journey helps ambitious professionals clarify their goals, sharpen their positioning, and craft applications that connect past experience, future ambition, leadership potential, and school fit.

250+

top MBA admits across M7, T15, INSEAD, LBS, Oxford, Cambridge, etc.

5X

Our clients are 5x more likely to get accepted into their top choice programs

$1.5M+

of scholarship funds secured to support our clients' continuing education

350K+

minutes coached; Customer Favorite & 5.0 Rated Top Coach

How We Help

MBA applications are not just essays. They are a case for your next chapter. The strongest MBA applications connect four things clearly: what you have done, what you have learned, where you are going, and why business school is the right next step. Ivy Journey helps you build that case with the strategy, storytelling, and execution needed to stand out in a competitive applicant pool.

Clarify Your MBA Strategy

Before writing begins, we help you understand where you stand, what schools make sense, and how to position your candidacy. We assess your academic record, career progression, leadership experience, extracurricular involvement, recommenders, test profile, target schools, and potential application risks, and then build a realistic but ambitious strategy around your goals.

Build Career Goals That Make Sense

MBA admissions is career strategy in disguise. Your goals need to be ambitious, specific, and credible. We help you clarify your short-term and long-term goals, connect them to your past experience, and explain why an MBA is necessary for the transition you want to make.

Find the Story That Makes You Memorable

Many strong applicants sound similar on paper. The difference is not just what you have done, it is how clearly your application explains who you are and why your path matters. We help identify the leadership moments, personal experiences, values, motivations, and inflection points that make your candidacy distinctive, then turn those pieces into a cohesive MBA narrative.

Execute Essays, Resume, and Applications With Precision

Once the strategy is clear, we help translate it into polished, persuasive application materials. We support essay brainstorming, outlines, drafting, revisions, MBA resume refinement, short answers, optional essays, recommender strategy, and final application review. The goal is not to make your application sound over-edited, it is to make it clear, focused, authentic, and strategically strong.

Prepare for Interviews, Waitlists, and Final Decisions

The MBA process does not end after submission. Interviews, waitlists, and admit decisions all require clear messaging and strategic judgment. We help candidates prepare for school-specific interviews, behavioral questions, alumni interviews, video interviews, and Wharton TBD-style formats. For waitlisted or reapplicant candidates, we help diagnose what may be missing and develop a stronger update, communication, or reapplication strategy.

Services

Choose the right level of support for your MBA timeline, school list, and application needs.

Comprehensive "All-In" Support

High-touch end-to-end guidance for applicants who want a strategic partner through the full MBA application process.

Focused Support

Focused packages for candidates who need sharper strategy, a stronger narrative, interview prep, or final application polish.

Package details & pricing

Compare package scope and pricing below. All prices are in USD.

Comprehensive "All-In" Support

1:1 FT MBA Comprehensive Package

This high-touch MBA admissions package is designed for serious applicants who want a strategic partner through the full application process — from early positioning to final submission. The MBA application is not just a writing exercise. It is a positioning exercise. Every component needs to make a clear, credible case for your goals, leadership potential, school fit, and future trajectory. Our experts bring both admissions judgment and career strategy to the process. We will help you pressure-test your goals, identify the strongest through-line in your background, sharpen your leadership evidence, and translate your experiences into a story admissions readers can understand and remember. Together, we will build the application as an integrated whole: school strategy, resume, essays, recommendations, short answers, optional essays, interviews, and final review.

  • Clear application timeline and plan to stay on track for MBA deadlines
  • Candid strategy and positioning assessment at the start of the process
  • Personalized school strategy across reach, core, and safer options
  • Leadership and potential inventory across work, academics, extracurriculars, service, and personal experiences
  • Story and career-goals framework before drafting begins
  • Admissions-focused resume review for impact, leadership signal, business judgment, and concise accomplishment bullets
  • Recommender prep documents designed to help recommenders write stronger, more specific letters
  • Differentiated essays tailored to each school
  • Polished final application review before submission
  • Mock interviews to build clarity and confidence
  • 1 School (20-30 hours): $5,000
  • 2 Schools (30-40 hours): $6,500
  • 3 Schools (40-50 hours): $8,000
  • 4 Schools (50-60 hours): $9,000
  • 5 Schools (60-70 hours): $10,000
  • 6 Schools (70-80 hours): $11,000
  • 7 Schools (80-90 hours): $12,000
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1:1 Deferred MBA Comprehensive Package

Deferred MBA applications require a different kind of strategy. You do not yet have the same full-time work history as a traditional MBA applicant, so the application needs to make your future potential unusually clear. The committee is looking for evidence of leadership trajectory, maturity, intellectual curiosity, career direction, and the judgment to make strong choices early. This end-to-end comprehensive support package is especially designed for college seniors, master's students, and early-career candidates applying to deferred MBA programs such as HBS 2+2, Wharton Moelis Advance Access, Stanford Deferred Enrollment, MIT Sloan MBA Early Admission, Chicago Booth Scholars, Columbia Deferred Enrollment, Kellogg Future Leaders, and other top programs. We will collaborate together to build a forward-looking application that connects your academics, internships, campus leadership, research, entrepreneurship, extracurriculars, personal background, and long-term goals. The goal is to help the admissions committee see not only what you have done so far, but why you are someone worth betting on early. This package is especially helpful if your profile has strong raw ingredients but you are not sure how to turn them into a mature MBA narrative. We will identify the leadership evidence you already have, fill gaps where possible, and frame your goals in a way that feels ambitious without sounding unrealistic.

  • Clear application timeline and plan to stay on track for MBA deadlines
  • Deferred MBA readiness assessment and candid profile diagnosis
  • Target program strategy across deferred MBA options
  • Leadership and potential inventory across academics, internships, extracurriculars, research, service, and personal experiences
  • Career-goals strategy that feels credible for an early-career applicant
  • Polished resume that highlights education, experience, leadership, skills, and interests
  • Recommender prep documents designed to help recommenders write stronger, more specific letters
  • Differentiated essays tailored to each school
  • Polished final application review before submission
  • Mock interviews to build clarity and confidence
  • 1 School (20-30 hours): $5,000
  • 2 Schools (30-40 hours): $6,500
  • 3 Schools (40-50 hours): $8,000
  • 4 Schools (50-60 hours): $9,000
  • 5 Schools (60-70 hours): $10,000
  • 6 Schools (70-80 hours): $11,000
  • 7 Schools (80-90 hours): $12,000
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Focused Support

Strategic Starter Package

A focused mix of live coaching and asynchronous review to evaluate your academic history, work experience, activities, accomplishments, resume, and application questionnaire, then translate that assessment into a clear strategy and action plan.

  • Expert evaluation of personal and professional background, including strengths, weaknesses, and gaps
  • Clear application strategy with recommendations, timeline, and action items
  • Refined candidate profile to help you stand out
  • Identification of brand narrative and high-impact stories
  • Strategic Starter Package (10 Hours): $2,250
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Holistic MBA Profile Evaluation

This package is for applicants who want a clear, honest read of your candidacy before committing to a full MBA application process. The purpose is not to give you generic encouragement. The purpose is to help you understand what is actually strong in your profile, what may raise questions, where you are under-positioning yourself, and what changes would most improve your odds. In this session, we will take 60 minutes to walk through your background to date, why you're looking to enroll in an MBA program, how you're thinking about the major elements of your application and look through any existing materials you may have already. We will evaluate your candidacy the way an admissions strategist would: academics, test score, career progression, leadership, extracurriculars, goals, school fit, differentiators, and risk factors. Based on this, we will then talk through your options for applying, timelines, and recommendations for elevating your application.

  • Understanding of how admissions may evaluate your candidacy as it stands today
  • Actionable suggestions for improving your application and profile
  • Profile differentiation ideas based on your background and peer applicant pool
  • Recommended next steps for timing, story development, resume, essays, recommenders, and profile building
  • Holistic MBA Profile Evaluation (1 Hour): $250
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Essay & Narrative Development Package

Strong MBA essays need to do more than answer the prompt. They must reveal judgment, self-awareness, leadership, motivation, and fit. The best essays are always specific enough to be memorable, strategic enough to support your application goals, and personal enough to feel authentic. This package is designed for applicants ready to elevate their MBA essays and tell their story in a way that truly resonates with admissions committees. Whether you’re starting from scratch or fine-tuning existing drafts, this package provides expert support to help you write essays that stand out.

  • Detailed prompt interpretation and essay strategy
  • Careful story selection and theme prioritization
  • Deep dive into who you are, the impact you want to have, and why business schools should care
  • Differentiated, personalized essays tailored to each target school
  • Actionable comments on structure, logic, specificity, voice, and fit
  • Guidance on how essays should align with resume, goals, recommendations, and interviews
  • 5 Hours (5 hours): $1,200
  • 10 Hours (10 hours): $2,250
  • 15 Hours (15 hours): $3,250
  • 20 Hours (20 hours): $4,250
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Wharton TBD Interview Prep

The Wharton Team-Based Discussion is one of the most unique MBA interview formats. It is not a traditional one-on-one interview, and strong candidates can underperform if they do not understand what the exercise is really testing. We will help you understand the dynamics of the TBD, refine your opening pitch, practice contribution strategies, and prepare for the individual interview component. Together, we will help ensure that you show up as someone Wharton would want in a learning team: thoughtful, composed, collaborative, and valuable.

  • Overview of the Wharton TBD format and what it is designed to evaluate
  • Pitch strategy and feedback on your opening idea
  • Guidance on contributing without over-talking or disappearing
  • Feedback on clarity, warmth, executive presence, and team orientation
  • Individual follow-up interview preparation
  • School-fit talking points specific to Wharton
  • Wharton TBD Interview Prep (1.5 Hours): $375
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HBS Interview Prep

The HBS interview is an intense, direct, fast-moving, and highly tailored to the application you submitted. You will need to understand your own application deeply, defend your choices, explain your motivations, and respond with clarity under pressure. This package is designed to help you prepare for the style of probing, resume-specific, judgment-based questions HBS is known for. We will pressure-test your leadership examples, career logic, decision points, weaknesses, school fit, and personal motivations so you can walk in prepared but not scripted. We will work on both what you say and how you say it (structure, specificity, pace, confidence, warmth, and executive presence) so that you sound thoughtful, concise, self-aware, and ready for HBS.

  • Pre-session offline review of your resume and submitted application materials
  • HBS-specific interview strategy and preparation plan
  • Customized question set based on your profile and application
  • Mock interview simulation in an HBS-style format
  • Detailed debrief on content, structure, delivery, and risk areas
  • Refinement of key stories, goals, leadership examples, and weakness questions
  • Post-interview reflection strategy if applicable
  • HBS Interview Prep (2 Hours): $500
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General MBA Interview Prep

An interview invite means the school already sees great potential in your application! Now's your chance to make that potential feel real. With this package, you will learn to communicate your story clearly, demonstrate understanding and need for the MBA, and convince the interviewer that you would be a strong contributor to the class. This package is designed for candidates preparing for one or more MBA interviews across M7, T15, and other top programs. We will collaborate together to help you build a flexible story bank, sharpen your message, and practice answering questions with structure, specificity, warmth, and confidence.

  • School-specific interview strategy and tips
  • Resume and application-based question preparation
  • Core story bank for leadership, teamwork, conflict, failure, goals, Why MBA, and Why school questions
  • Mock interview simulation
  • Detailed debrief on content, structure, delivery, and missed opportunities
  • Answer refinement for high-risk or high-frequency questions
  • Actionable feedback on concision, confidence, tone, authenticity, and executive presence
  • Single Mock (1 School) (2 hours): $500
  • Multi-School (2-3 Schools) (4 hours): $1,000
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Final Application Review

High speed, top quality, quick turnaround reviews of essays and other written application materials to help you optimize and finalize your M7 MBA applications before submission! Gain peace of mind knowing every piece of your application has been reviewed and optimized with expert guidance.

  • Detailed feedback to optimize stories and examples for stronger essays
  • Tactical recommendations to improve writing style, logic, flow, and clarity
  • Actionable suggestions for key application documents, including resume and activity materials
  • 1 School (5 hours): $1,200
  • 2 Schools (8 hours): $1,750
  • 3 Schools (11 hours): $2,250
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Proven Results

Our students have been accepted at top MBA programs in the US and UK, including but not limited to...

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Client Voice

What Our Clients Are Saying

Becky is a wonderful MBA coach for anyone from a non-traditional background. As an engineer transitioning to business school, I was initially unsure how to translate my technical background into a compelling MBA application. Becky made all the difference. Becky's insights into what top schools are looking for were invaluable, and she really helped me communicate my story in a way that resonated.

Result

Admitted to Harvard Business School

As an international candidate from China, navigating the MBA admissions process in the U.S. felt daunting, but Becky made it so much more manageable. She helped me understand what top business schools are really looking for and guided me in crafting my story in a way that resonated with the admissions committees. I highly recommend her for anyone facing the challenges of international applications. She also speaks fluent Chinese!

Result

Admitted to Stanford Graduate School of Business

Getting into a top MBA program has always been a dream and I'm excited to be starting at Wharton!! Couldn't have done it without Becky and all of her great advice and support during my application journey.

Result

Admitted to Wharton