Services – Crack The MBA
Hourly Model
This service model is for candidates who are self-driven and need guidance on specific parts of their application. To learn more about this service, reach out today. We have an extraordinary success rate with hourly services. Through our strategies, we can help you create an indelible positive mark in your MBA applications.
Full-Service Comprehensive Model
We work with a limited number of clients for the comprehensive advisory model each year. This includes the bells and whistles be it brainstorming, essay strategy, resume editing, essay editing, recommendation advisory, interview prep, or waitlist management. We believe in the importance of good storytelling, which is a time-consuming process. It’s an art that can not be distilled in a formulaic manner. Therefore, our services are iterative, with unlimited iteration. Our clients iterate numerous times on their essays with us – some super-motivated early-starters, as many as eight to ten times. As a result of our focus on working with a few, handpicked candidates every year, we are also able to spend adequate time in one-on-one interactions with each client. Over the course of our interactions, clients speak with us for tens of hours over multiple touchpoints. Our services keep evolving each year. Schedule an initial consultation today to learn about our services in detail. Contact us here.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s your availability for the 2024-25 MBA application cycle?
As of Mar 2024, we have availability for the comprehensive service for R1 for the 2024-25 MBA application cycle. We also have availability for the hourly service for the 2024-25 MBA application cycle. For R1, i.e. Sep deadlines, we plan to make comprehensive services available until June 2024. We may have limited availability for our comprehensive service in June 2024. Hourly services will continue to be available for R1, i.e. Sep deadlines, until Aug 2024.
For R2, i.e. Jan deadlines, we plan to make comprehensive services available till the end of Sep 2023. We expect to have limited availability for our comprehensive service in Oct 2024. Hourly services will continue to be available for R2, i.e. Jan deadlines, until Dec 2024.
Can we directly work with the founder, Nupur Gupta?
Crack The MBA has a personalized engagement model where Nupur personally works with each applicant. By choosing Crack The MBA, you get to work directly with Nupur, who has more than a decade worth of experience in the industry. Nupur would also be your single point of contact through the application process.
How can we sign up for an initial consultation?
The first step to request an initial consultation is to fill out the form here. We do not guarantee consultations to each applicant. Our ability to offer consultations is especially restricted right around deadlines. At the same time, our effort is to provide as many consultations as possible. We allocate 15 minutes for the live consultation session. These consultation sessions are personally held by Nupur Gupta on Zoom. Barring technical problems, most consultation sessions are video consultations.
Prior to the session, we request information and might even ask for information over email. This allows the consultation to be effective. To maximize your chances of securing a consultation, we request that you fill out as much of the information as you have in the form above.
What’s a good time to begin the MBA admissions consulting process?
While each applicant’s journey is unique, we recommend giving yourself adequate time to craft impactful applications. Early starters start as early as one or two years before their applications are due. That being said, starting six to nine months ahead of time should give you plenty of time to do a good job with your applications. At the least, it is helpful to give yourself three to four months to work on your applications. With the hourly service, there is greater flexibility to start an admissions consulting engagement closer to deadlines.
Can you write our essays so we can focus on other aspects of our application (e.g. GMAT)?
Crack The MBA is aligned with international organizations such as AIGAC and is bound by their policies, which strictly forbid writing materials for clients, as that would be against the schools’ code of ethics
Can we connect on calls or would the interactions only be through email?
Our process entails connecting on calls, and interacting through emails and video interviews. Our communication format includes both asynchronous and synchronous communication. To ensure our time together can be effective, we schedule all synchronous communication a couple of days in advance.
What are your working hours?
We work from Monday to Friday (10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Indian Standard Time). Please contact us for our current holiday schedule.
Will someone make sure I adhere to timelines?
We create schedules with people once they sign up and ensure we keep our end of the bargain. However, we cannot ensure that you adhere to your end of the schedule. If you miss deliverable submissions, we would miss iterating on deliverables planned for that week.
If I cannot keep to the schedule, can I transfer my engagement to the next year?
Your engagement with Crack The MBA is limited to the application cycle you sign up for and the schedule created for you. As per company policy, engagements are non-transferrable to subsequent years.
If you have a medical emergency and want to request an exception, you may write to us with your request and documentary evidence requesting a deferral prior to breaching your schedule. We will evaluate your request and paperwork. However, we cannot guarantee that such requests would be fulfilled. In cases where your request for deferral would be approved, candidates would be bound to the terms and agreements (including revised service fee) applicable for that year.
If I wish to sign up, what are the next steps? How do I enroll?
Once you’ve decided to enroll, please let us know which service offering you would like to sign up for. Please share an initial list of schools you would like to apply to and align with us on your tentative list of schools. Most applicants elect to make payments through bank transfer. It can sometimes take 24-48 hours to set up the payee as per RBI guidelines. You can reduce this lead time by setting up our bank account as a payee ahead of time.
Why are your reviews not listed on platforms such as GMATClub and Poets & Quants?
We believe in reviews based on authentic feedback, uninfluenced by vested interests such as advertising revenue. LinkedIn is a neutral platform that allows you – a prospective applicant – to credibly get a sense of past clients’ recommendations and profiles, without the influence of middlemen. Therefore, we’ve chosen LinkedIn as the only platform where past clients provide feedback about their experience working with us. We have 70+ reviews from past applicants admitted to schools such as HBS, Wharton, MIT, Columbia, Kellogg, Booth and more. You can read reviews by scrolling down to the ‘Recommendations’ section of our LinkedIn page here. Our LinkedIn reviews provide a fair and honest representation of what working with Crack The MBA looks like.