The Truth about why we get you results that other MBA consultants can't

Many of our clients first worked with other consulting companies that often look interchangeable. After hitting a brick wall and scrambling to save their applications, they came to us. Using our unique story-driven MBA Admissions Consulting, they got accepted to the country's top M7 Business Schools.

They shared the problems they first encountered and explained the benefits they gained from our approach.

EX-ADMISSIONS STAFF CONSULTANTS

They'll feed you info about the qualities their ex-school looks for. But when it comes to crafting stories that show leadership, analytical strength, emotional intelligence, and complex technological innovation or finance, they simply lack the background to translate these experiences into relatable and engaging narratives.
Ex-Admissions staff have a skill set: they can recognize good and bad applications. But they can’t always help you craft great applications. Interweaving personal stories with business objectives isn’t their expertise.
They'll offer critical notes and tell you what you’re doing wrong, but tend to be weaker with story strategy, persuasion skills and creative solutions when you’re stuck.

FORMER MBA STUDENT CONSULTANTS

They'll often encourage you to fit in a familiar box, not break out and be unique & differentiated. This cookie-cutter approach can harm your candidacy, not help it.
They're more analytical. They can’t always see the forest from the trees. And their soft skills are often weaker in guiding you with critical emotional connection.
The majority of them lack narrative techniques to help make your story truly memorable and push your candidacy from competitive to absolutely compelling. What worked for them to get accepted won’t necessarily work for you because your story is different.

STORYCRAFTERS CONSULTANTS

StoryCrafters consultants are Ivy-League grads, with a primary skill-set in story expertise, bolstered by real world business experience. It’s a rare fusion that most MBA Admissions consultants lack.

Differentiate you: our consultants leverage their skill sets from screenwriting, creative writing, marketing and advertising, to help you craft a story that's so personalized, it doesn’t just “position” you among the pack, but differentiates you, pushing you past the competition.
School-specific guidance: we don’t just feed you info about schools, but show you how to adjust your story for each school’s particular ethos, using language, tone, story arcs, and stakes. Whether it’s leadership, emotional intelligence, analytical abilities, or complex finance and innovation, we guide you in crafting your story just the right way - so that it not only engages readers but connects with them.
Save you time: most of our clients are getting crushed at work, and applying for an MBA is like another full-time job, so we filter out all the useless info and noise you can't control that other consultants spend too much time on. We help you target everything you can control, and together we hit it hard.
Take you through an iterative process: we don't just offer critical notes, but give you constructive notes: options, solutions and persuasive story and narrative techniques to help you craft game-changing MBA apps.

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We help you integrate the 4 most important elements you need in your MBA applications

We interviewed our top MBA clients. Studied winning apps. Tracked adcom behavior. And here's what we learned:

Highly competitive applicants get rejected from Top Business Schools all the time.

Long shot applicants defeat the odds and somehow get accepted.

The only way a competitive applicant edges out another competitive applicant to get accepted is by telling a Great Story.

The only way a long shot applicant can transform into a competitive applicant and get accepted is by telling a Great Story.

Only 4 things really matter when crafting the story behind your game-changing MBA applications:

#1 - You must immediately set yourself apart from other applicants:

DIFFERENTIATION

You need to break out of your industry, overrepresented pools & overall applicant pool. You'll only do it by telling a story that nobody else can. Differentiate yourself.

#2 - You must be so memorable they can’t forget you:

MEMORY

With all the tough competition, it's SO crucial to stick like glue to admissions officers' minds. Make your story unforgettable. Be memorable.

#3 - You must establish an emotional connection to get invited to interview:

EMOTION

You're NOT just a number, stat or resume. Win the admissions game through human connection. Put a smile on their face. Move them. Make them laugh. Inspire them. You'll only connect through emotion.

#4 - You must demonstrate your post-MBA impact:

IMPACT

Other applicants have goals - but most of them can't explain why their goals are important. Show the impact behind your work. Go deeper than anyone else. Convince them your goals are meaningful.

Other MBA consulting firms won't admit this.

It's really hard to pull off - and they often don't have the skill set to help you do it.

Unlike the others, we use these 4 things to guide you in crafting your Best MBA Story.

OUR STORY

After graduating from Yale, StoryCrafters founder, Joel Maguen, moved to Moscow and taught Russian businessmen and businesswomen how to acculturate to the western marketplace. He also worked for Steven Spielberg on a war testimonies project and won awards on the festival circuit for his films.

He expanded StoryCrafters in 2017 with a classic business mission: to solve a problem. He saw a number of MBA candidates who were frustrated after working with older consulting firms that touted ex-admissions staff and former MBA student consultants. These firms talked a big game but delivered inconsistent results.

With the goal of improving the MBA consulting process, he developed a totally unique story-driven method, drawing upon elements from creative writing, marketing, screenwriting and advertising.

StoryCrafters soon became the best kept secret among a network of MBA's from New York's finance world. Word-of-mouth spread like wildfire, as clients consistently gained admission to the country's most prestigious business schools and MBA programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, MIT and Columbia.

OUR TEAM

When putting our team together, we targeted consultants with highly specialized backgrounds and skill sets.

We wanted creative, strategic, and big-picture thinkers.

They're super-bright graduates from Ivy-League schools.

And they studied the MBA admissions process backwards and forwards.

But most importantly, they're master-storytellers.

That's why they all come from the following backgrounds: journalism, screenwriting, creative writing, marketing and advertising.

Yes, it's an unconventional recipe for an MBA Admissions Consulting Firm, but that's precisely why our unique story-driven approach has led to such consistently successful results for our clients.

The key has been to help each person we work with transcend the simple facts, numbers, stats and names of the admissions game. Telling unforgettable human stories that demonstrate passion, tenacity and unique vision, is the common thread that binds these future business leaders.