Fantastic experience with Heidi Granner

I definitely recommend working with Heidi and mbaMission! Thank you, Heidi, for your time and guidance!

Heidi is a reliable and practical consultant who will be honest with you from the start while still being warm and encouraging. Do not fear that your essays won’t sound like your voice — Heidi is amazing at providing guidance and suggestions for strengthening essays while having you very much keep your own writing style/voice.

As someone who admittedly isn't the best with time management (especially for longer term projects/goals -- i.e. completing 4 applications over 2 months), I was open about this with Heidi from the start and asked for her support. She built me a custom calendar that had all of my deadlines -- not just when apps were due/should be submitted, but also when I needed to send her essay drafts so we'd have sufficient time to go back-and-forth on editing essays. Having her help build this structure for me made the whole process way less daunting and more approachable.

Applying to business school is an overwhelming time! I am sure Heidi hears similar anxieties/frustrations across clients during the process, but she always empathized with how I felt. I was also unsure of how I could possibly craft a “story” based on my background, and I really wasn’t sure how to form a narrative around my future goals, but Heidi was tremendously helpful in that regard, which made the process much more enjoyable.

Heidi has a strong and up-to-date understanding of what different schools look for/care about in an application. I also loved that Heidi was part of the larger mbaMission organization, as I felt that I had access to other resources if necessary. For example, I was particularly concerned about the direction I’d taken one of my essays and whether it “made sense” for a particular school. I fully trusted Heidi, but she also offered to share my essay with another mbaMission consultant -- an expert in that particular school — who affirmed Heidi’s sentiments.

I applied to 4 schools - Booth, Ross, Wharton, and Sloan. Accepted to both Booth and Ross with merit scholarships + Forte Fellowships and will be attending Booth in the fall (my top choice all along, which Heidi was well aware of!). I interviewed at Wharton but was ultimately denied, and I didn’t receive an interview at Sloan.

Again, I would definitely recommend working with Heidi!