Voted #1 in Client Satisfaction by Poets&Quants.
With the lowest coach-to-client ratio in the business, our year-round team of MBA experts is dedicated to maximizing your odds at every step of the admissions process. Sign-up for a 30-minute consultation today.
Over the years, we’ve helped a lot of happy applicants get into top MBA programs.
We can do the same for you, even if:
Some firms might pair a consultant with up to 50 clients—but there’s no way to deliver quality, personalized attention with client loads that high. We cap our consultants at an absolute max of 25 comprehensive clients per year, and most take even fewer.
We believe in giving you the resources you need to be successful, and we don’t want you to feel like you’re ever “on the clock.” Your flat rate covers everything and anything you need, including access to course content, live calls, essay revisions, and mock interviews.
Templates and worksheets make it easier for other consultants to handle more clients at once, but they lead to cookie-cutter applications. We’ve built an online platform that saves you from busy work and leaves you more time for personalized, 1:1 coaching sessions.
Menlo Coaching has consistently excelled in Poets&Quants‘ rankings, with multiple consultants in the MBA Admissions Coach Hall of Fame, top spots in annual surveys, and the highest Net Promoter Score of any firm in their admissions consulting directory.
Our coaches have been featured as subject matter experts in publications such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News.
And Menlo Coaching maintains a perfect five-star rating on review platforms like P&Q, GMATClub and Google.
I started my search for an MBA consultant by diving into a bunch of research, reading through forums like GMAT Club and checking out Poets & Quants for their historical MBA rankings. I noticed Menlo Coaching consistently ranked highly across every list, both for their firm and individual consultants. All those positive reviews and the high regard from my peers really made my choice easy.
At Menlo Coaching, we help you achieve maximum impact with your MBA application by excessively preparing you at every stage of the process.
This overpreparation comes in many forms. For example:
Being an MBA graduate or former admissions officer is not enough to work at Menlo Coaching.
Instead, we look for consultants with fundamental skills in understanding career paths, nurturing MBA applicants, and writing and storytelling.
Our full-time team is made up of MBA and PhD graduates from top-ranked universities as well as business executives from banking, consulting, tech, and non-profit.
Our extensive library of video testimonials features real clients discussing their experiences, starting right where you are now: at the beginning, exploring options, and deciding who to work with.
You’ll learn valuable advice about the MBA process as a whole—and you’ll learn why they’re so enthusiastic about Menlo Coaching.
When it comes to MBA admissions, we’re realists. Throughout our content library you’ll find articles on scams and tricks common in the admissions consulting industry, you’ll hear straight-talk on how admissions committees evaluate applicants, and you’ll read criticism of school rankings in major publications.
Of course, it’s not all drama—you’ll also find helpful, time-saving guides on business schools, application do’s and don’ts, study resources, and more. Our growing library is always honest, and always free.
How can so many reviews for MBA admissions consultants all be five stars? Are these real?
We’ll cover the written application and interview process, plus all the unofficial parts you might not know about.
We created a clear and easy-to-follow “roadmap” to help you understand what to do and when to do it.
Learn the “dirty secrets” of admissions consulting and why you should take a holistic approach during your selection process.
The overwhelming majority of our clients are admitted to one of their target schools. We help applicants to select schools that are in line with their qualifications and don’t hesitate to recommend against particular schools (or even against an MBA). We’re happy to help you apply to a stretch school if you understand the odds and do so in the context of a balanced list of schools.
Having said that, we recommend against using success rate as the main way to select a consultant because this metric is easily manipulated by either a) taking only perfect candidates, or b) convincing applicants to apply to easy schools. Furthermore, there is no satisfying way for applicants to verify claimed success rates.
Most clients pay a low five figure amount for comprehensive support on their application process. We can give you an exact quote after a consultation once we know where and when you are applying.
Interview preparation, which includes a 2-hour communications training session, two mock interviews and access to our self-paced interview curriculum is $2,500 for most schools, and $3,000 for HBS because of the extra time required to prepare realistic questions.
We don’t hire our consultants based on Admissions Committee experience. And while some of our consultants do have MBAs, we don’t see it as a requirement. Instead, we hire consultants who are great writers and storytellers.
In the end, creating a winning application is a persuasive writing exercise, and strong writing and editing skills are the most important qualities here. Our consultants combine their talent for communication with a deep knowledge of the MBA admissions process, along with insights into which types of candidates appeal to which schools—ultimately, these are the abilities that will help you get into a top program.
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 that 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!
“I hired Menlo Coaching because I felt like my application was really kind of my one shot, and I really just felt like I wanted to put my best foot forward and make one really good run at the application process and get a great outcome.”
“I think one of the most helpful processes from Menlo Coaching is the interview preparation. You go about mock interview from different angles, not just with your consultant, but with other people who might not know you as well, so there’s a fresh perspective.”
“Within the first few minutes of going through my profile, Yaron 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.”
