Strategy & Positioning
Clarify your career goals, refine your school list and identify the experiences that distinguish your candidacy.
Personal admissions coaching from strategy through applications, interviews and final decisions. Pay as you progress, or choose a fixed fee for the same full support.
Led by Alex Ruiz Lee · INSEAD MBA · Former Samsung Head of HR
Clarify your career goals, refine your school list and identify the experiences that distinguish your candidacy.
Personal guidance and iterative feedback on essays, CV, recommender strategy and application forms. Recommendations remain in your recommenders’ own voices.
Work directly with Alex, with ongoing guidance through your package’s endpoint and a plan shaped around your timing and schools.
School-specific mock interviews and feedback, plus required video interview preparation and unlimited practice with our video interview tool.
Guidance on separate school scholarship essays, connecting your qualifications and motivations with a persuasive case.
A tailored strategy if you are waitlisted, with support continuing through each included school’s final admissions decision.
Alex manages the sequence and priorities around your deadlines, starting point and progress. You focus on the task at hand, with clear guidance on what comes next.
An in-depth questionnaire and back-and-forth exploration uncover your experiences, achievements, strengths and goals. We refine your school and recommender choices where needed.
Alex uses that foundation to suggest stories, angles, key messages and structure before you tackle each component. You then draft, with a clear direction rather than a blank page.
You share information openly, complete the agreed tasks and keep Alex informed of changes or constraints. Your experiences and voice remain at the heart of the application.
Feedback, revision and further review continue as needed on the components in your package. There is no set limit on revisions.
You receive clear, actionable written feedback so you know what to tackle next. When talking it through would help, you can request a call and Alex will arrange one as needed. Calls follow your application’s needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.
We review the complete application together before submission. Your collaboration continues through interview preparation, scholarship applications, waitlist strategy and final decisions for the schools in your package.
This is a milestone-based process, not a fixed weekly schedule. The sequence and pace adapt to your starting point, deadlines and progress.
Your support continues beyond submission, through interviews, scholarships and final admissions decisions.
Explore your experience, goals and positioning. Refine your school list and recommender choices where needed.
Develop a coherent story across your essays, CV, recommender guidance and application forms.
Complete and submit your application to each school in your package.
Prepare for school-specific and video interviews, with support for separate scholarship essays.
Stay supported through each school’s final decision, including a tailored strategy if you are waitlisted.
The progression applies to each school in your package. Interview and scholarship schedules can vary by school.
Fees are shown in US dollars. Payment in euros is also accepted. Both payment options include the same End-to-End Package.
Pay as you progress, or choose a lower fixed total. Both include the same comprehensive support.
Start with strategy and application development. Make the next payment when you receive your first interview invitation, and the final payment when you receive your first acceptance. You receive our comprehensive support through final decisions; if you don’t reach a milestone, that payment isn’t due.
Choose the same comprehensive support through final decisions for one fixed fee, regardless of admissions outcomes. There are no additional payments when you receive an interview invitation or acceptance.
The fixed fee costs less overall than Pay as You Progress if both milestones are reached.
With Pay as You Progress, the upfront fee depends on the number of schools in your package. An additional fee of US$1,000 is due at your first interview invitation, followed by US$1,500 at your first acceptance. Each fee is charged only once, regardless of how many interview invitations or acceptances you receive. If a milestone isn’t reached, that payment isn’t due.
| Number of schools | Pay as you progressOur preferred approach | Fixed feeA lower total if both milestones are reached |
|---|---|---|
| 1 school |
US$1,995 upfront
+ US$1,000 at first interview invitation+ US$1,500 at first acceptance
Total if accepted*US$4,495
|
Total for any outcomeUS$3,495
|
| 2 schools |
US$3,995 upfront
+ US$1,000 at first interview invitation+ US$1,500 at first acceptance
Total if accepted*US$6,495
|
Total for any outcome
|
| 3 schools |
US$5,495 upfront
+ US$1,000 at first interview invitation+ US$1,500 at first acceptance
Total if accepted*US$7,995
|
Total for any outcome
|
| Each additional school | + US$1,000 upfrontNo additional milestone fees | + US$1,000 |
Limited-time promotion for new clients: save US$250 on the two-school fixed fee or US$500 on the three-school fixed fee. The promotional prices apply to the fixed-fee option only.
*Totals shown include the upfront fee and both milestone payments. Each milestone is charged once per package, regardless of the number of interview invitations or acceptances.
Payment plans are available upon request for either payment structure, with instalments based on the number of schools.
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