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 $300+ 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. …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
Only $299
There is simply no other way to get access to this level of expertise for this price.
- 1 year access
- Access to all modules for:
– Strategy
– Essays
– Resume
– Recommendation
– Interview - Access to all modules
- 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 $49
Invited to interview? Congrats! Let the Lab guide you. Only pay for the Interview modules!
- 1 year access
- Access to all modules for:
– Strategy
– Interview
Does NOT include modules related to the rest of the application, e.g. essays, resumes, recommendations. This product is perfect for people who have been invited to interview!
Additional services can also be purchased
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:
- 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.
- 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, then we know that we need to do a lot less work.
- 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!
*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.
- 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.
* 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
Each year, ApplicantLab provides current in-depth admissions advice for the top 25 full-time MBA programs in the U.S., the top part-time and executive programs, as well as leading programs abroad. If client demand is great enough for a new school, it’s added accordingly. In the past, the Lab has provided advice for the following programs:
Babson (FT MBA)
Babson (MSEL)
Boston University Questrom (FT MBA)
Boston University Questrom (MSMS)
Booth (FT MBA)
Booth (PT / Weekend Evening)
Cambridge Judge
Carnegie Mellon Tepper (FT MBA)
Carnegie Mellon Tepper (PT EMBA)
China Europe International Business School CEIBS
Chinese University of Hong Kong CUHK
Columbia Business School
Copenhagen Business School
Cornell (2 year)
Cornell (1 year)
Cornell (“Tech MBA” in NYC)
Dartmouth Tuck
Duke Fuqua
Duke Fuqua (MMS)
Emory Goizueta
ESADE
Frankfurt
George Washington
Georgetown McDonough
Georgia Tech Scheller
Haas (FT)
Haas (EWMBA)
Harvard
HEC Paris
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HKUST
Hult
IE Spain
IESE Spain
IMD Switzerland
Imperial London
Indian School of Business ISB PGP
Indiana Kelley
INSEAD
ISB
Ivey Ontario
Kellogg (FT 2 year MBA)
Kellogg (FT 1 year MBA)
London Business School LBS (FT MBA)
London Business School LBS (Sloan Fellows)
McGill Desautels
Michigan State Eli Broad
Minnesota Carlson
MIT Sloan (FT MBA)
MIT Sloan (Sloan Fellows)
MIT Sloan (IDM)
National University of Singapore (NUS)
NYU (FT MBA)
NYU (WEMBA)
Oxford Said
Penn St. Smeal
Pepperdine Grazadio
Purdue Krannert
Rotman
Schulich
Southern Methodist University SMU Cox
Stanford (MBA)
Stanford (MSx)
Temple Fox
Texas A&M Mays
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Anderson (FT MBA)
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Anderson (PT FEMBA)
University of California, Irvine Merage
University of Georgia Terry
University of Illinois Urbana Champagne
University of Michigan Ross (FT MBA)
University of Michigan Ross (PT Executive)
University of Minnesota Carlson
University of North Carolina UNC Chapel Hill (FT MBA)
University of North Carolina UNC Chapel Hill (Online [email protected])
University of Southern California USC Marshall
University of Texas UT Austin McCombs
University of Virginia UVa Darden (FT MBA)
University of Virginia UVa Darden (PT EMBA)
Vanderbilt Owen
Washington Foster
Wharton
Wisconsin
Yale
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