ApplicantLab provides benefits that go way beyond price — namely, in-depth, quality advice available 24/7 — but the fact that it has such excellent value for money is just an added bonus.
Most admissions consultants of Maria’s caliber (Harvard Business School graduate; 15 years of experience; former AIGAC Board Member) charge $350+ for just ONE HOUR of their time.
The ApplicantLab platform gives you access to ALL of Maria’s expertise, start-to-finish, for less than what you’d pay for just one hour of time with an equally-elite consultant.
There is simply no other way to get access to this level of expertise for this price.
On-Demand Admissions Guidance Tool
1 Year Access $349
There is simply no other way to get access to this level of expertise for this price.
- One year access to ALL modules:
– A detailed “To Do” List
– Strategy (mitigating weaknesses; Career Vision; Why MBA?)
– Essays (detailed advice; brainstorming; pre-writing and drafting)
– Resume
– Recommendations
– Interviews (detailed guidance and sample videos for the most common interview questions)
- Apply to as many schools as you’d like!
– In-depth tailored content for each school, all for one low price
MBA InterviewLab Only
Only $79
Invited to interview? Congrats! Let the Lab guide you. Only pay for the Interview modules!
- 1 year access to:
– Strategy modules (mitigating weaknesses; Career Vision; Why MBA?)
– Interview Prep (detailed guidance and sample videos for the most common interview questions)
Does NOT include modules related to the rest of the application, e.g. essays, resumes, recommendations, To Do list. This product is perfect for people who have been invited to interview!
Personal services: a one-school comprehensive package costs only $1,444! (see below for info.)
Additional Services
- 1:1 Consultations
- “Sanity Checks” of your materials and overall story
- Strategic Essay Reviews
- Editing Services
- Mock Interviews
- Less expensive than other firms
- Exclusive for ApplicantLab users only
How ApplicantLab Stacks Up
“Yeah, but…What if I Want Extra Help?”
The vast majority of ApplicantLab users end up finding the advice in the Lab so comprehensive that they do not feel the need to pay for additional services. However, sometimes some users prefer to seek out additional 1-on-1 help — in that case, no problem.
Here are the different ways you can still use the Lab to save money, even if you’re planning on working with another admissions consultant:
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- Checklists are provided (via the “pre-writing” module) that you can use to check your work.
— You can ask a trusted friend, colleague, or even a current student you’ve made a connection with to check on your behalf — even if they have no admissions experience. - Detailed video walk-throughs, in particular of “good” and “bad” sample interview questions, help you craft and then analyze your own answers.
- Checklists are provided (via the “pre-writing” module) that you can use to check your work.
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- ApplicantLab provides strategic reviews, editing, and mock interview services for far less than the usual market rate. How? Since you’ve gone through the modules already, we don’t have to spend time on covering the basics with you.
- Check out all of our additional services here.
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- Do the bulk of the work in the Lab, and purchase a-la-carte hours (usually sold in packages of 2 – 3 hours) from some other consultant.
- That should be enough time to get high-level feedback on your materials, e.g. on one set of essays + one resume. Voila! You’ve gotten the feedback you wanted, but you don’t need to pay $4.5k+ for a “comprehensive” package!
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*Just don’t tell them you’re doing this; tell them this is ALL the budget you have. Otherwise they’ll find needless fault in things, and will try to up-sell you into buying even more hours from them.
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- Already bought a 1-school comprehensive package somewhere else?
— No problem! You can use the Lab to do the work for all of the other schools you’re applying to, for a small fraction of the cost. - Already bought a multi-school comprehensive package somewhere else?
— Why not protect your hefty investment by buying ApplicantLab as an “insurance policy”? This way, you can double-check the advice you’re getting elsewhere. For less than 3% of the cost of a $10k package, you can be ensuring that you’re getting the best guidance possible.
- Already bought a 1-school comprehensive package somewhere else?
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* To be honest, many people find us after having worked with expensive consultants in the past, and if their experience is similar to yours, you might even find the advice in the Lab to be better!
Schools Supported
ApplicantLab provides in-depth admissions advice for over 50 MBA programs including:
– Top 25 Full-time US MBA Programs
– Top 25 Full-time Global MBA Programs
– Leading US Part-time MBA Programs
– Advice on how to answer the most common types of application questions
to help you apply to ANY MBA Program
You’ll find detailed, program-specific advice for the following programs and more:
Berkeley Haas
Cambridge Judge
Carnegie Mellon Tepper
CEIBS (China Europe International Business School)
Chicago Booth
Columbia
Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Cornell Johnson
Dartmouth Tuck
Desautels Faculty of Management (McGill University )
Duke Fuqua
Emory Goizueta
ESADE
Georgetown McDonough
Harvard Business School (HBS)
HEC France
Hong Kong Univ Science and Technology (HKUST)
IE
IESE
IMD
Indian School of Business PGP
Indiana Kelley
INSEAD
London Business School (LBS)
Michigan Ross
MIT Sloan
Nanyang Technical University Singapore
Northwestern Kellogg
NUS Singapore
NYU Stern
Oxford Said
Rice University Jones
Rotman (Toronto)
Schulich School of Business (York University Toronto, Ontario)
Stanford GSB
UCLA Anderson
UNC Kenan-Flagler
University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business)
USC Marshall
UT Austin McCombs
Vanderbilt Owen
Virginia Darden
Washington Foster
Washington U St. Louis Olin
Wharton
Yale SOM
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