MBA Prep School Digital

A Proven Approach for Getting In!

Is getting an MBA from a top school important to your future career success?

Do you want to know how to stand out from other candidates?

Do you aspire to build the best possible application without spending the thousands of dollars that private admissions consultants charge?

Keep reading to discover a proven way to apply for an MBA from a top business school and get in. MBA Prep School Digital is the only program that teaches you the approach admissions experts use to help their clients create an outstanding MBA application!

Go from “Just Another Candidate” to an “Essential Admit”

Just a few years ago, it seemed that if you had good scores and worked hard during your undergraduate and job, you would be accepted into top business schools, and career success would follow. And for the most part, that was true.

But top schools have an increasing number of candidates competing for a limited number of seats in each class. They are (rightly) demanding more from their candidates. Applicants are fighting for schools’ attention and actively seeking ways to “stand out from the crowd.”

To build an application that truly stands out and differentiates you as a candidate, you need to re-imagine and redefine your approach. You need to think beyond your job titles and undergraduate school. You must evolve from an undifferentiated candidate to a standout candidate considered an essential admit by the schools.

To do that, you must use new strategies, focus on differentiation and fit qualities, and adapt your approach to MBA applications.

You must shift your mindset from a focus on what you will receive from the school to a broader “contributor mindset,” which is focused outward on the contributions you can make to your class, the school, and the alumni community.

This means going from:

• Describing your career achievements generically to demonstrating a powerful career story and trajectory.
• Being unclear about your career goals to being able to clearly articulate where you are heading, both short-term and longer-term.
• Choosing schools based on their rankings or friends’ opinions or forum chatter to selecting your schools based on the key resources, knowledge and experiences that will help you achieve your career aspirations.
• Submitting generic applications across multiple schools to building applications that match the “Fit Qualities” of each specific school and demonstrate clearly why that specific school is the best match for your learning and developmental needs.
• Cutting and pasting essays between schools to crafting powerful essays demonstrating your leadership achievements and future leadership potential.
• Expecting your references to “figure it out” to consciously selecting the best references and guiding them to tell the most powerful stories that further reinforce your brand and unique differentiating qualities as an applicant.
• Attaching your “finding a job” resume to building a specific, tailored MBA application resume — there is a big difference!
• Rushing your MBA application forms at the last minute to recognizing and leveraging the strategic opportunity provided by this important component of your application — remember that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression!
• “Winging it” during the critical admissions interview to feeling confident, prepared, and best able to communicate your unique and compelling qualities as a candidate.

Making these changes will have a powerful impact on your MBA applications.

What’s included?

Here’s what you’ll learn in each module:

Module One: Prepare to Apply

For the early birds who have more than twelve weeks before it’s time to apply, this MBA Prep Step explores the things you can do to prepare for the application process that will make your candidacy that much stronger.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Think like an admissions officer in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your candidacy
• Build self-awareness around your strengths
• Develop an outstanding application
• Decide which round to apply in

After showing you how to diagnose opportunities for improvement in your applicant profile via our Ding Diagnostic™, we prescribe a series of steps that you can take to address the dings and strengthen your candidacy before you apply.

Module Two: Discover Your Strengths

An outstanding application will clearly communicate your key strengths to the admissions committee. To build such an application, you need to begin the application process with a crystal clear picture of your strengths.

In this module you’ll complete a thorough accounting of your:

• Points of Difference
• Character Strengths
• Career History
• Leadership Capabilities

The lessons you learn about yourself will help you to shape each and every element of your application, ensuring that the end result is the absolute best representation of who you are.

Module Three: Define Your Career Goals

An acceptance letter to a top tier MBA program is not a blue ribbon for past achievements. Admissions committees are certainly interested in what you’ve accomplished thus far, but that is because they are trying to forecast your potential for future achievement.

One question appears consistently in just about every application: “What are your career goals?”

Your answer to that question in essays and interviews can serve as an elegant proof of your future potential. A powerful Career Goals Essay will detail your plan to be a leader of consequence in the future.

In this module, you will:

• Investigate the intersection between your strengths, passion, and sense of purpose
• Define your career goals

The career goals you develop using these exercises will set you apart from other MBA candidates.

Module Four: Select Your Schools and Identify Fit Qualities

Defining your career goals in the prior module is integral to your application strategy because once your career goals are clear, you’ll be ready for the this module, which helps you select the schools that will best prepare you to achieve your career aspirations.

Select Your Schools

Identify Fit Qualities

In these modules, you will:

• Learn how to look beyond the magazine rankings, the school’s marketing messages, and the opinions of others
• Conduct an effective school research program and complete a set of due diligence steps to select the schools that are the best fit for you.

Module Five: Build Your Application Resume and Application Forms

MBA Application Resume

Most schools will ask you to submit a 1-2 page resume. Books and articles about creating a resume are generally written from the standpoint of creating a resume for a job search. In this module, we show you how to create a resume with MBA admissions officers in mind. You’ll learn what admissions officers are looking for in an effective MBA application resume.

MBA Application Forms

Don’t wait until the last minute to fill in your application data forms. If you do, you will miss out on an opportunity to use this additional tool to bolster your candidacy.

This module offers tips on acing the application form and will address typical questions that applicants have when completing these forms.

Module Six: Write Your Essays

The essays you write for your MBA applications are the best way to differentiate yourself from other candidates, and this module will provide you with the guidance you need to create essays that will impress admissions officers.

Our Essay Professor™ modules will teach you the craft of MBA essay writing.

We provide you with the tools and techniques that experienced admissions consultants use to help their clients create exceptional essays. Armed with the direction and exercises provided in these video courses, you will embark on the writing process with greater confidence and a clear idea of your writing objectives.

There are no shortcuts to creating great essays. To help you stay on track with your essay writing efforts, we have broken the writing process down into a weekly program that will take you from first draft to final draft for three separate sets of application essays.

Module Seven: Select and Support Your References

Selecting your references is a critical step in your application process. In this module, we provide you with the Do’s and Don’ts of reference selection. You’ll learn how to choose the references who are most likely to write a letter professing that you are in the top 10% of your peer group and how to guide them to write letters that provide the substantive examples of your strengths that admissions officers want to see.

After you have selected your references, great process management leads to great results. We will show you how to guide and support your recommenders.

You will learn what admissions officers are looking for in a great recommendation letter so that you can educate your references and ensure that the letters they write will increase your chances of earning an acceptance letter.

Module Eight: Prepare for Interviews

After you submit your application you may be able to take a couple of weeks off, relax, and reconnect with family and friends. Then, it’s time to get ready for the final exam – your admissions interview.

When the interview invitations are sent out you’ll only have a few weeks lead time to prepare; so this module will help you prepare to ensure that you are fully prepared by interview day.

Module Nine: Bonus Materials

The final bonus module includes five “extra credit” videos and exercises to help those of you applying to the most competitive schools. This content will provide you with that additional edge to help your essays “stand out from the crowd.”

The bonus content in this module includes:

• Creative Writing for More Powerful Essays
• Leadership Essays: Preparing to Write Your Essays
• Leadership Essays: Writing Your Essays
• Leadership Essays: Improving Your Essays
• Leadership Essays: Revising Style & Grammar

Accepted to Kellogg

The MBA Prep School Admissions Interviewing Series was a terrific way to prepare for business school interviews. They helped me get organized, and I felt completely prepared to wow my interviewers. I especially appreciated the tips and examples of how to tell my stories effectively and the STAR framework. Thank you!

What’s the Cost?

Traditional admissions consulting programs cost thousands of dollars per school, often rely on formulaic essay structures and application approaches, and some admissions consulting firms even use “consultants” who don’t have any meaningful admissions consulting experience.

MBA Prep School Digital allows you to tap into the expertise and insight of highly experienced consultants for a fraction of the cost. Not only that, but by following our step-by-step guide, you will build powerful MBA applications that truly leverage your unique characteristics and present a differentiated picture of what you can contribute to the class, school and alumni community if admitted.

Option 1: Monthly Enrollment

Tuition for our monthly program is just $47 per month. There are no contracts — you can cancel anytime. Most people enroll for three to four months to complete multiple applications and prepare for interviews. Naturally you can stay enrolled for as long as you’d like access to the program content and membership benefits. For just $47 per month, you’re making an investment in your career and future success. The monthly program is a recurring subscription. Once enrolled, your credit card or PayPal account will be billed automatically every 30 days until you notify us to cancel.

Option 2: 12 Month Unlimited Access

We also offer a 12 month unlimited access program. For a one-time payment of just $299, you can have 12 months unlimited access to all the resources, tools, and expertise contained within MBA Prep School. As an extra bonus, we also include a copy of our How to Apply for an MBA eBook as a companion reference during your application journey. Enroll for 12 months and really give yourself the time to utilize the tools across multiple rounds of applications!

Accepted to Kellogg

I actually don’t know what to tell you – thank you doesn’t seem good enough. I couldn’t have done this without you. You made my dreams come true!

Representative Testimonials

Accepted to Stanford

Thank you for making my dreams of attending a top MBA program a reality!

Accepted to Harvard

Having followed the MBA Prep School curriculum, I had full awareness of the content pieces and stories to use for my resume and essays. Also, I was able to differentiate the qualities that were more important to one school vs. another, which helped me pick the appropriate stories for each set of essays. To top it off, MBA Prep School has video tutorials on acing your interview.

Accepted to Wharton

The interviews prep tools MBA Prep School offered helped me to quickly and efficiently prepare for my interviews in the narrow time frame I was allotted by my schools. I was able to work through general interview prep, school-specific prep and identify and overcome personal interview weaknesses all in the matter of a few short days.

Accepted to Kellogg

The suite of videos and tools provided by MBA Prep School serves as a tremendous guide to anyone applying to top business schools.