Aditi is a London Business School graduate with a background in equity investing and strategy consulting. She has studied and worked in India, the UK, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Jordan.
Prior to her MBA, Aditi worked with investment banks (JP Morgan, Ambit Capital), advising institutional investors on their equity investment strategies in emerging markets. She has also worked with the Quebec pension fund's (CDPQ) Growth Markets team in India, helping them screen and evaluate investment opportunities.
Aditi is a strong believer in the power of mentorship - particularly so for women. She volunteered as a mentor for a 12-year-old girl from a low-income community in Mumbai as part of India's first-ever mentoring organization - Mentor Me India. While at LBS, Aditi worked on mentoring an early career master's student. She also worked as a consulting peer leader at LBS, conducting 50+ mock cases and interviews for members of the LBS community.
Outside of work, Aditi likes to read about world history and economics, cooking (and eating) dishes from different cuisines, visiting museums, and organizing (and reorganizing) her spaces.
Alisia is a Manager on the Corporate Strategy team at Adobe's headquarters in San Francisco. She graduated from the Harvard Business School's class of 2020, and spent her HBS summer interning at a tech-focussed investment fund. Her prior work experience includes corporate development and growth at BRF in Sao Paulo, market expansion strategy with tech startups in Berlin, and management consulting at The Parthenon Group's emerging markets practice. She's worked with dozens of candidates on the HBS application process and loves helping with building a cohesive story. On the side, she's an uber passionate crypto investor and loves discovering new music from all around the world.
Amy comes from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she was Associate Director. Amy devoted 12 years at the Wharton School, working closely with MBA students and supporting the admissions team.
During her tenure at Wharton, Amy served as a trusted adviser to prospective applicants as well as admitted and matriculated students. She conducted admissions chats with applicants early in the admissions process, she administered interviews with hopeful students, she read and reviewed completed applicant files, and she also participated in admissions committee meetings. Amy also represented the school at recruiting and welcome events.
Prior to joining Wharton, Amy spent 5 years as a journalist, writing and editing for a number of mid-sized newspapers on both the East and West coasts. She earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Penn State University and she also holds a Masters in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
Amy was born and raised in Philadelphia but now calls San Francisco home, where she lives with her husband and two young children. If you really want to get her talking, ask her about her passion for travel and her visits to more than 40 countries on six continents!
Arush studied at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and has been helping prospective MBA candidates get accepted at top business schools for over seven years.
For nearly 5 years, Arush worked on the Corporate Strategy & New Ventures group of EAB, an education research and consulting firm in Washington, DC that was acquired by Vista Equity Partners for ~$1.6B in 2017. At EAB, Arush worked on the enrollment services practice, which helps more than 250 schools set their enrollment and admissions criteria and strategies.
While at Dartmouth, Arush worked closely with the enrollment office at Tuck, helping them redesign their admissions criteria in light of greater interest from candidates with a tech background. He has also been an alumni interviewer for Dartmouth.
Arush loves to cook, run, and play squash.
Botong is a graduate of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His extensive background in finance, technology, and real estate, combined with his passion for mentoring and coaching students, has helped numerous candidates from around the world.
He founded his first startup focused on academic coaching while he was pursuing his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University. Through this venture, Botong helped thousands of Chinese students improve their language skills and find their career paths. Botong was also involved with the career counselling office at Tsinghua.
Subsequently, Botong has worked in investment banking and venture capital. He currently lives in Beijing and loves traveling across the Pacific rim. On the weekends, Botong loves cycling and playing with this son.
Brenda is a sought after speaker, award-winning businesswoman and resume writer, and a trained life coach. She is also the author of How to Write a Killer LinkedIn profile, a book that held the #1 best-seller spot in Amazon's business writing skills list for over 2 years. She has been helping applicants craft effective written application documents for over 15 years.
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Business school applications are long - you need to create a resume, essays, short answers, and support recommenders for each institution. Getting to perfection takes time.
The exact time to get to the end state depends on a number of factors including which schools you’re applying to (every school has a different application), how good you are at writing and editing, and your personal commitments.
We have worked with successful clients who have spent four weeks on an application and we have worked those that have spent four months. That said, based on what we have seen in the past with applicants’ work schedules and writing styles, we recommend starting at least three months before the deadline to maximize your chances of success.
We start working with candidates as early as February.
Our mission is to help every candidate realize their true potential. When you retire, we want you to look back on your career and be proud of yourself for achieving your dreams. As such, we want to make sure that your financial circumstances are not a barrier to success.
In keeping with our mission, we provide a small number of partial and full scholarships to our applicants. These are awarded after you start working with us and are based on both professional potential and financial need. Please note, these scholarships are only available for our All-Inclusive Package.
That said, we also want to make sure you are working with the best team, and attracting top talent is expensive. Hence, we’re not able to provide scholarships to everyone. Your project manager can tell you more about scholarship opportunities after we start the engagement.
We understand that not all applicants need help with their entire application. For applicants who need support with only one or two aspects of their applications, we’ve broken down our all-inclusive offering into different phases of the application lifecycle such as best-fit school selection, resume editing, essay editing, and more. Please check out this page for a list of all our offerings.
For applicants interested in a structured and rigorous preparation program, we have the MBA Next Year coaching service where you work with our top Graduate Coaches. They create a personalized plan to help you set and achieve targets, giving you a leg up when you apply next year. Your Graduate Coach has experience in your industry and helps you think through career progression, leadership experiences, community involvement, test prep, and more.
Do we guarantee that you’ll have the best chance of being accepted if you work with us? Absolutely! Do we guarantee that you will get accepted? Absolutely not!
Anyone guaranteeing admissions is either lying or engaging in nefarious activities. That said, here is what we guarantee – when you hit the submit button, you will not regret the quality of the application you submitted. Our job is to make sure that you present the best, most comprehensive version of yourself through your documents.
99% of the applicants we worked with got into at least one of the schools they applied to. Although this means you have the best chance of getting accepted at your dream school by working with us, it does not mean you will definitely get into Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, or any particular school for that matter of fact. Business school applications are competitive.
We help candidates create a personalized strategy that includes applying to dream schools, competitive schools, and safety schools. That does not mean we will force you to apply to a school that you don’t want to attend. We help you create your school selection strategy, but the final decision to apply to an institution is yours and yours alone.
The schools that fall in each category -- dream, competitive, safe -- depend on your profile, background, and test scores. For some students, Wharton is a safety school whereas for others Georgetown McDonough might be a safety school. Our acceptance rate is based on which schools candidates actually applied to, not which ones we thought they should apply to.
Our Graduate Coaches are selected through an extremely rigorous process. We make sure they are knowledgeable, smart, courteous, personable, and professional. Further, you are paired with a Coach based on your profile, background, and interests based on the information you provide through our comprehensive intake form.
However, it is very important that you get along with your Coach. The quality of your application is directly dependent on how well you get along with them. In the past, we’ve realized building a relationship doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to get to know each other, understand the candidate’s persona, and craft a strong application. We try not to prematurely undo progress by switching Coaches.
That being said, if you have any issues, email us as ceo@inspirafutures.com and our CEO will personally reply to you within 48 hours. Your success is our topmost priority and we will go above and beyond to make sure you get accepted at your dream school. This includes switching your Coach if needed.
Our project team consists of Graduate Coaches, Writing Experts, and former Admissions Committee members. You will work with a Graduate Coach, who will help you draft the perfect application. They are typically a former industry expert who is an expert at storytelling and creating a compelling narrative.
They also make sure your grammar, tone, and sentence structure are in line with what business schools expect. Finally, our former Admissions Committee members review the entire application and ensure that it is ready to be submitted.
Coordinating the efforts of this army of experts requires a lot of effort. Hence, you will also be assigned a Project Manager. Their role will be to ensure all deadlines are met and your application documents are submitted well in advance of the deadline.
We assemble a project team based on the applicant’s professional background, schools of interest, and career ambitions. This ensures that the team understands ‘your language’ and you understand theirs.
If you worked on a major buyout as a private equity associate, we pair you with someone who has a finance background. If you led a team that grew Sales Qualified Leads by 100% for a startup, we match you with someone who worked in sales or knows what it’s like to be at a startup. This helps translate disparate experiences into coherent stories.
The same goes for former Admissions Committee members who review your application. We try to ensure they have extensive experience in the institution you are applying to. This results in relevant and actionable feedback.
A lot of the information needed to assemble the right project team for you is collected through our initial conversations.
MBA admissions consulting firms are either run exclusively by business school alumni or former Admissions Committee members. While both these experts can add a lot of value for an applicant, working with just one does not solve your problem. We are the only firm that allows you to tap into expertise from both, business school alums and former Admissions Committee members.
Business school alumni are great storytellers. They have experience taking disparate experiences and creating a compelling story from them. However, they have never been a part of the Admission Committee and don’t know what happens behind those closed doors.
On the other hand, Admissions Committee members are great at evaluating applications and telling candidates where they can improve. But they might not be the best at helping candidates surface their best experience and create the right persona. After all, the best food critic doesn’t necessarily have to be the best chef, right?
Finally, business school alumni and former Admissions Committee members add a lot of value, but their time is valuable and limited. Hence, we also have project managers that are a part of each applicant's team and make sure that the project is always on track. We want to make sure you draft the best application documents in a timely manner.
Our model brings all these experts together to create a unique applicant experience that brings out the best in them and helps them get accepted at their dream school.
Through our vast network of former Admissions Committee members, Graduate Coaches, and Inspira alumni, we are able to have our finger on the pulse and see what’s going on at business schools.
These insights are early and relevant, and they benefit you. We know before anyone else when and how the Admissions Committee at an institution is changing the intake criteria. We can use this to help to craft a relevant story.
We are the first to get insights such as, “Wharton had an over-representation of applicants with entrepreneurial backgrounds in Round 1. They are looking for people with more of a finance background in Round 2 this year.”
Only 4% of prospective Graduate Coaches and former Admissions Committee members we speak with each year make it on our team. We want to ensure that our applicants have the best experience, so choosing the right team members is of paramount importance to us.
We have a rigorous multi-step selection process. This includes personality fit, industry knowledge tests, and multiple real-life case simulations. Every member of our team is made to evaluate the applications of past candidates. This helps us evaluate the quality of their insights and communication skills. You can learn more about our selection process here.
We also conduct ongoing evaluations to make sure we are the right partners to help you fulfill your MBA dreams.
Creating the right application requires time and effort. It is our duty to make sure every consultant is able to dedicate time and effort to your application.
The number of clients each consultant works with depends on the nature of their role and additional commitments within the firm. For example, the work of a Graduate Coach is very different from the work of a writing expert. Also, some of our team members help with tasks such as conducting research on business schools or writing guides.
Some consultants might work with a small number of applicants who are applying to a lot of business schools whereas others might work with more applicants who are applying to fewer schools.
You can be rest assured that even though members of our team wear many hats, your success is our topmost priority. If we have to choose between losing a potential client or allocating lesser time to current clients, we will choose the former any day.
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