Applicant Lab User Review - Very Helfpful Tool

Strengths:

Helps you get the brainstorming done in advance so you have a pool of stories to use in your essays.

You can then map the stories to the traits that each school is looking for in a very organized fashion, then you can pull those in for the essays.

Very structured notes for each essay by school.

Would make the product better:

Recommend to possibly add functionality or dates to each application by school meaning a planning tool for applicants that when they choose the schools they can also see application deadlines for those schools. This helps as applicants are applying to more schools every year 5+ so they can see the roadmap for the entire project of essay writing.

Secondly, some videos are not up to date or may require updates, for example the Foster video is using a website that is dated, not to say that the advice is irrelevant.

Lastly, I think you have this in beta, grammar errors or editing could possibly be automated in the tool....I am not sure if there are plug ins or what essay writing looks like 5 years from now so this forward is looking advice only for longer term.

Thank you.

I got Applicant Lab after I wrote the GMAT and started prepping for application season.

I would actually recommend that you get a subscription while you prepare for your GMAT, this way you can brainstorm your stories slowly in parallel, say a story a week and by the time you have your score you will have 12-16 stories to choose from.

This is a solid tool in the sense that you do the hard work upfront in terms of why MBA, why a particular school, why now? and these things are important for you to understand before you commit to applying.



Helps you get the brainstorming done in advance so you have a pool of stories to use in your essays.

You can then map the stories to the traits that each school is looking for in a very organized fashion, then you can pull those in for the essays.

Very structured notes for each essay by school.

Helps you get the brainstorming done in advance so you have a pool of stories to use in your essays.

You can then map the stories to the traits that each school is looking for in a very organized fashion, then you can pull those in for the essays.

Very structured notes for each essay by school.