Are you applying to selective graduate or undergraduate programs?
Our team of tutors and application consultants provides students like you with the individual attention, guidance, and structure you need to work harder, score higher, and achieve your most ambitious goals.
It is common for high-achieving candidates to overlook the specific elements of their own profile that offer the most strategic leverage. We provide the external perspective required to identify exactly what elite committees—across college, law, and business—truly value, even when you might underestimate your own unique impact.
Whether you’re navigating a hypercompetitive applicant pool or looking to bridge the gap between elite stats and a compelling personal “why,” our team ensures your profile is strategically rigorous and meticulously crafted. We help you tell your story, maximizing your probability of admission to the best programs.
Even with a strong personal network, admissions trends shift faster than word of mouth can travel. You need real-time intelligence to navigate the hypercompetitive landscape of the world’s most competitive institutions.
When your stats and pedigree match every other applicant in the top tier, “excellence” is simply the baseline. We help you identify and amplify the specific narrative nuances that elevate your profile beyond other high-achieving applicants.
Navigating high-stakes interviews, video prompts, or standardized tests without professional support can be overwhelming and unnecessarily stressful for any applicant. Our 99th-percentile instructors and expert communication coaches can help you succeed.
Across all our services, the Menlo Coaching approach maintains a strong emphasis on what has always worked for us: rigor and close attention, even at the expense of scale. We’ve designed our business to provide the best possible service for a select group of clients who want a bespoke, one-on-one engagement—not a mass-market, one-size-fits-all process.
Most consultants take on far more clients than is realistic for the kind of deep, iterative work that good admissions consulting entails. Firms push high client loads as part of the business model; the incentives mean service quality inevitably suffers.
We cap our consultants at a maximum of 25 comprehensive clients per year, with most taking fewer. This gives us the time to pay close attention to every step of the process, from early positioning through to scholarship negotiations.
We never limit the amount of time you can spend with your coach on calls, drafts, or any other part of your strategy. Placing a cap on the time you can spend with your coach would be optimizing for scale, not for the outcomes of individual clients. We match our approach to your needs and priorities.
You are never on the clock. We’ll tell you honestly when part of your application needs more work, and when further effort would be wasted. No half measures, but also no busywork.
You can’t create a strong application by just checking the right boxes. It takes creative and strategic thinking. Templates and worksheets streamline the process for firms—by sacrificing depth and imposing on the client with paperwork where there should be conversation. The results are predictably flat.
Our process maintains a strong focus on face-to-face interaction at every stage. Through live conversations, we get to know your background, goals, and constraints. From there, we build your application deliberately, piece by piece.
Based on feedback and reviews from our many amazing past clients, we know that our continued success owes a lot to our intentionally low client-to-consultant ratio.
To maintain this high level of support and personal attention, we limit ourselves to working with only a small percentage of the many promising and ambitious people who come to us each year, inevitably turning away a number of people we would also have loved to work with.
Simply put, our consulting calendar fills up quickly—with many clients booking a year or more in advance. If you know you want to work with us, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Within the first few minutes of going through my profile, my coach was able to be incredibly honest with me about where my weaknesses were and what my strengths were. And in that short call I learned more about the MBA application process than I had in the entire time researching it by myself. I just felt immediately reassured, learning what I needed to do next and what it would take to move forward.
We’ll review your application and send you personalized feedback. If we think we’ll be a good match for your needs, we’ll set up a free consultation.
At the end of the consultation, we’ll quote a package just for you. Most clients pay a low five-figure amount.