At Menlo Coaching, we’ve had strong results working with Indian applicants from elite backgrounds—particularly those at large family businesses, private equity and venture capital firms, or other high-end employers.
But we want to be upfront:
We’re not the best fit for every Indian applicant.
Our pricing is significantly higher than local firms—and may be out of reach based on typical Indian salaries.
We focus on a small subset of Indian applicants and do not have broad admissions data across the entire applicant pool.
…and you think you may be a fit for our services, feel free to reach out directly at [email protected].
We often recommend MBA Crystal Ball, one of the most established and trusted MBA admissions consulting firms in India.
They’ve helped a wide range of applicants succeed at the M7, T10, and T25 programs—even those with challenges like low test scores, GPA issues, or career gaps.
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Sometimes, people think that only “perfect” applicants with a straight and narrow story through a top college, gold-plated employers, and 99th percentile GMAT score are admitted to top MBA programs. Jason proved that this just isn’t true by charting a course that began in community college, passed through some very unusual pre-MBA jobs—such as working for a mom and pop tax preparation company—and then heading for a Duke MBA at the Fuqua School of Business with a scholarship as a step towards a management consulting job.
Jason’s story had a few unusual parts, like attending community college and working for a small, totally unknown company in the tax preparation industry. These steps made perfect sense in the context of Jason’s life and upbringing, but it took a while to convince him that sharing his life story openly in his applications would be the right decision:
I spent maybe a total of five or so hours in terms of video calls and phone calls in getting out my life and my story. That was more than I’ve told 95% of the people in my life that I’ve ever encountered. I ended up being able to portray my story by really digging deep and understanding what fueled me.
– Jason
We reassured Jason that MBA applications aren’t only about business, and explained how telling his life story could show his grit and the way that he had overcome major challenges to get where he was today.
Jason’s post-MBA goal was to become a management consultant, which sounds a bit implausible given his background: working as a tax preparer for a 10-person firm.
But as we dug further into the details of his work, there were many strong arguments to be made:
With enough reflection, this career goal went from seeming implausible to seeming inevitable; and when Jason was accepted into the Duke MBA program, he knew that the Fuqua admissions committee thought so too.
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