mbaMission Review (Consultant Eric Hollowaty)

After my GMAT, I was under the impression that college applications should not be a big task because it is just about putting together all my past experiences in an interesting way(please bear in mind that what's interesting to me need not be interesting to the adcom). However, I still decided to go for the 3-school package with mbaMission because I had given my GMAT only in Oct end and I wanted to apply to the B-schools for the next year admissions; and having a consultant's help would certainly aid me in taking some quick decisions regarding what I could write for a particular essay. Back then, I had no clue that admission consultant's help could make such a huge difference to my application. I now believe that taking mbaMission's package was one of my wisest moves because there way no way that I would have managed to do such a great work on my essays without Eric's help.

Although I had a strong international work experience, I think most of the other aspects of my application weren't outstanding(they were good but not great). But considering that my background is one where thousands of other guys like me keep applying, it was very important for my essays to highlight my international experience and make it stand out from the rest. After filling up the brainstorming document, Eric and I discussed about the various positives and negatives in my application and we decided on how we would be tackling each of the questions for the college. Be that bringing my attention to some of the important things that I missed in my essay or reducing the number of words in the sentences thereby allowing me to add more content to my essays, Eric's made an immense contribution to my essays by making the experiences sound compelling. Since I started working on most of my applications with just a month left before the deadline for the b-school, I would generally manage to send the essays to review only at the last minute; during all these situations Eric has been extremely helpful and returned the essays on time. I must admit that it is very important to start early when it comes to your applications, so that you have enough time to review your essays. Working with Eric over time, I could see that my writing skills have improved dramatically(at least I would like to think so ;-)) and my most recent B-school essays had fewer reviews than my first B-school essays. Even before my interview for my dream college, Eric boosted my confidence by telling me what an MBA interviewer expects from an applicant.

I would like to highlight a mistake that I did during the whole process. Until I got a reject, I never bothered going through the start to finish guide by mbamission fully(I had read a few sections but not all of it). After I got dinged from one of the B-schools, I decided to go through the pdf and made several drastic changes to some of the important questions; I got an interview call from both the B-schools I applied subsequently and I cleared the interviews as well.