OUR STATS
for our fellow data nerds
JUSTIN’S STATS
• Justin has been an MBA admissions consultant for 18 YEARS , making him one of the 10 most experienced consultants in the US.
• He has worked with 500+ candidates in his career, helping them craft 4,000+ essays.
• He has sold or published 26 different works, ranging from books to screenplays, and from articles to essays.
PLACEMENT STATS
• 87% of our clients are accepted into MBA programs.
• 92% of our clients who choose comprehensive packages are accepted into MBA programs.
• 81% of our clients ultimately attend an M7 school (HBS, GSB, Wharton, UChicago, MIT, Columbia, or Kellogg).
• More than 50% of our clients who applied to HBS, GSB, and Wharton have gotten into at least 1 of the schools.
• 79% of our Wharton applicants have been accepted.
SNAPSHOT of the 2022-2023 application season:
47% of our HBS clients were successful
38% of our GSB clients were successful
91% of our Wharton clients were successful
80% of our MIT Sloan clients were successful
86% of our Columbia clients were successful
75% of our UChicago Booth clients were successful
100% of our clients were successful at Kellogg, NYU, Tuck, LBS, and INSEAD
CLIENT STATS
• 43% of our clients come from finance backgrounds (including every bulge bracket bank and 11 private equity firms)
• 27% of our clients come from consulting (MBB; Kearney, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, PwC; many boutique firms)
• 19% of our applicants come from tech or start-ups (from FAANG to dozens of smaller firms)
• 11% of our clients come from other industries (the arts, non-profit, military, entertainment/media, etc.)
• We’ve worked with clients from 17+ different countries
And lastly: 98% of our business comes from word-of-mouth referrals.
Why are we so proud of this? Because most firms use paid marketing channels to get the majority of their clients. All we have is this modest little website… and 100s of happy clients who tell their friends and family about their great experience with us. This also means we bend over backwards to get you into your dream school—because that’s what keeps us in business.