Honest, thoughtful, speedy, and kind!

Strengths:

Kelsey is extremely responsive (most of the time you get an email reply within 10 minutes) - which is amazing when you have a thousand questions. She also puts an incredible amount of thought and effort into the feedback she gives (10 whole pages for me!). Lastly she is also very warm and kind, without sacrificing honesty, a balance that resonated with me for this service.

Would make the product better:

Honestly nothing - adore Kelsey!

I hired Kelsey to help me with Consortium Round 1 for CBS with the $1000 Pre-Submission Package.

Before going with Kelsey, I met with a few other admissions consultants through Leland. The Leland intro calls are only 15 minutes, which just isn't enough time to get to know someone. Kelsey offers a 1 hour long free consultation, and she really got to know me and my story organically, and in a very warm way, without sacrificing honesty. I highly recommend at least doing the initial consult, because she can answer a lot of questions for you in that hour together. She also never tried to upsell any of the other services, which I also appreciated.

After opting to go with Kelsey, I submitted a TON of materials to her, including my Consortium essays (a whole other set of essays) and two letters of rec my recommenders shared with me. She reviewed EVERYTHING in a little over a day, including very detailed reviews of transcript, resume, etc (which can get loss in the essay shuffle). She shared a doc of 10 pages of feedback, and then met with me for ~45 minutes on Zoom (vs. 30 minutes advertised). Essentially, she is very generous with her services, which was amazing! I think her thorough feedback was critical to me sharpening a lot of my admissions package - I reworked a lot of essays, meaningfully improved a second recommender's letter, and totally revised my resume using her guidance. I even took the GRE with her encouragement (after taking the GMAT FE). Throughout the process, she also answered many, many random questions I had, and just provided a lot of moral support in a very ambiguous and stressful process.

I ended up getting full-tuition scholarships at both CBS and Stern, so it was 100% worth that upfront investment.