MBA Applications Editing and Proofreading Services

The essay says the applicant wants to move from engineering into private equity. They have no finance background, no transaction experience, and the essay does not explain how two years and a degree bridge that. The committee is not judging ambition. They are judging whether they can place this person, and an unbridgeable goal is a rejection dressed as a dream.

We edit MBA applications and their essays — career goal and post-MBA plan essays, why-this-school responses, leadership and failure essays, optional and reapplicant essays, resumes for business school, recommender briefs, and interview preparation documents. Our editors work on the essay that has to survive a plausibility test.

The career goals essay is where an MBA application is believed or discounted, and its failure is a destination with no route to it. Admissions committees are assessed on employment outcomes, which means they are reading for feasibility rather than aspiration. We work through these so the goal is stated as a specific role, in a specific kind of organisation, in a named function — since "a leadership position in strategy" cannot be recruited for and an associate role in a named sector can; so the line from what the applicant already has to that role is drawn in steps, with the gap the degree closes named explicitly, because the committee's question is what the two years are actually for; so the transferable part of the existing career is identified in the applicant's own terms rather than asserted, given that a career switcher who cannot say what carries over has not thought about it; so an intermediate goal is offered where the jump is large, as a two-step path is far more credible than a single leap and committees know the statistics; so the school-specific answer names courses, clubs, treks and people that only exist there, since a paragraph that would work for four schools is worth nothing at any of them; so the plan survives being wrong — a stated alternative shows judgement rather than doubt; so the timeline puts numbers on it; and so nothing in the essay contradicts the resume. Essays written this way get interviews.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including applications, employment information and unsuccessful attempts. We are editors rather than admissions consultants or committees, and we offer no view on your prospects, any school or any decision. What we can do is make the route as clear as the destination.