Our Approach

360 Approach
Stand Out, Get In.  This is our guiding philosophy and what drives us.

In our 360 approach, we institute a comprehensive analysis and create a customized strategy based on the above mantra. We start as soon as you're ready and continue until you finish your final interview. We collaboratively analyze your points of data, create your strategy, develop your brand, and position you to be the strongest candidate you can be.

Attitude
We at Black Sheep love a challenge.  We don't, however, love losing battles.

We are selective with our clients.  We truly believe in the value that we add, and we are not looking to just collect a paycheck.  We truly care about this - your aspirations are our aspirations and your concerns are our concerns.  We are fully committed once we decide to work together, and we expect the same from you.

Full Service Agency
From the moment you're ready to start thinking about applying to business school, we can start our work with you.  To better understand what we do, let's start with what we don't do.

We are not GMAT tutors - we can provide recommendations on resources that specialize in that.  We are not essay writers - not only is that unethical, but it also deprives you of an important chance to be introspective and learn about your ultimate goals (or what matters most to you, or your 3 proudest accomplishments...)


We specialize in positioning and branding.  That means from your Essays, to your Recommendations, to your Interview, to your Waitlist action plans, we are here to create, enhance, and implement your unique story and your differentiated positioning.  Whether you come from a traditional MBA background and need to set yourself apart from the pack (finance/consulting) or you come from a non-traditional background and need to be convincing, we will collaborate on the optimal total package for you to present to admissions.

Qualifications

1. We each have professional branding, strategy and writing experiences while hailing from very diverse backgrounds.
2. We are all MBA students at Columbia Business School.
3. We have tremendous resources: publications, classmate profiles, professors, time, etc.
4. We have direct access to Admissions.
5. We are up-to-date and intimately familiar with the application process to all the top schools.
6. Accumulated, we have 7 years of application experience, 25 years of work experience, GMAT score of 2880, and we spent the GDP of a small, developing country on the whole process.

Email: BlackSheepMBA@gmail.com