Your Path to Graduate School Starts Here
MS/Ph.D. Start-to-Finish Consulting Package
We can teach you how to differentiate yourself
Many applicants have solid backgrounds but few can clearly express that they have that ‘special something’ the admissions committee is seeking. In this ultra-competitive process, every part of the application—resume, essays, recommendation letters, application, and interview—must be stellar so that you can differentiate yourself from thousands of other talented applicants. This comprehensive consulting package covers everything you’ll need – and we’ll have your back from ‘start-to-finish.‘
- Discussion on school selection, application strategy, positioning, and client discovery (getting to know you)
- Deep resume/CV discussion and unlimited resume/CV editing
- Essay brainstorming and outlining for all required and optional essays
- Unlimited editing of all required and optional essays, from the micro-level (grammar, etc.) to the highest macro-level (ideas and themes)
- Discussion and editing for recommendation letters. We provide advice on how to interact with the recommender and concrete, point-by-point suggestions for improving each letter while editing
- Mock interview practice for in-person and video interview formats
- Online application review and short-answer editing
- Additional editing (waitlist materials, correspondence with school)
- General support to answer application-related questions
- Advice on weighing and selecting from your school admission offers
School Selection and Pre-application Strategy Planning
We will deep-dive into your profile to gain a thorough understanding of your strengths and weaknesses and then help you identify the graduate school programs at which you will be competitive. Our next step is developing a strategy to move forward. We will explain the attributes and strengths of the top programs so you can pinpoint the best fit for you and your goals.
Resume/CV Review & Editing
You never get a chance to make a first impression right? Since the resume is the starting point for the admission office’s review, you’ll need a clear and powerful resume to grab their attention. The resume is critical to helping the admissions committee quickly understand your background and key experiences. Your admissions consultant will work with you to make sure your resume is detailed, well-developed, and results-oriented.
Essay Brainstorming & Editing
Brainstorming: We will help you identify interesting and inspirational stories from your past. We will guide you in incorporating these unique personal stories into the larger context of your application, developing compelling and comprehensive statements that will highlight your key attributes.
Unlimited Editing: After your drafts have been finalized, your consultant will review every word that’s utilized to make sure that your voice comes through in the strongest fashion. We will help you fine-tune your ideas, focusing on sentence structure, grammar, and style, while maintaining your distinct voice.
Recommendations Letters
If your recommender would like assistance in polishing their statement in support of your application, we would be more than happy to assist them. We take the approach that every recommendation letter must be tailored to the applicant’s specific experiences and strengths. We will help your recommender fully explain your main aptitudes, specific success stories during your tenure, and a sense of the core values that drive you. We will also carefully analyze the content and provide comments about possible areas of improvement.
Online Application Overview
In the application admissions process, every word counts and responses to your target school’s “short answer” questions are also crucial parts of your application. Once your application is finished, your admissions advisor will look over the whole of the application form to make sure that every detail is correct.
Interview Preparation
Even for the most gifted communicator it takes lot of practice to deliver a great story and to answer the questions in the most compelling way. Our consultants understand the motivations behind these questions and can help you craft responses that will allow the interviewer to clearly understand your strengths and motivations for getting a graduate degree. During each mock interview we will help you strategize answers to the most common interview questions, provide detailed feedback regarding how improve the structure and content of your answers and to adapt your stories to fit different questions.
Waitlist Support
If the client is waitlisted by a targeted school, we will coach them on proven strategies and tactics for advancing from waitlist and craft all-important waitlist essays.
