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Rusty's session on leveraging a non-traditional background for MBA applications was truly enlightening. His expert insights, practical advice, and innovative framework provided a clear roadmap for showcasing unique strengths. I left feeling empowered and informed, with a renewed confidence in the value I can bring. His passion for supporting non-traditional candidates shines through, and I personally really enjoyed examples from his own experience – thank you for a fantastic and informative event!

Loved how Mike broke down how the ad com views an application to check if the school will be a good fit for the applicant. Great session overall!

One thing that stood out to me while working with Keta is how incredibly sincere of a listener she is. Transparently, the MBA application process has especially daunting to me as a non-traditional applicant coming in with a lower than average GPA. Before I connected with Keta, I was all over the place trying to juggle all the components of the application process all at once. I reached out to Keta because I knew she’d understand how to help me craft my application as a non-traditional applicant (as she is one herself!). During our sessions I would address every single one of my concerns, in which she thoughtfully responded to each. She really takes time to understand your story and motivations in order to share tailored guidance on how to effectively craft a strong and compelling narrative that is unique to you. After our sessions, I left feeling more clarity, focus, and confidence. I’m gearing up to apply to R2 and excited to see what’s in store and am immensely grateful to be connected to Keta! Lastly, on top of being extremely insightful and resourceful, it was also super enjoyable to connect with Keta. She keeps it fun and real!

Rusty's class was very detailed with both statistics to understand the competition and specific strategies to tackle the application. Really enjoyed the 3 frameworks to write an essay that he shared. Highly recommend!

Recently attended Leland's “Landing an M7 MBA Acceptance with a Non-Traditional Background” and a big thanks to Rusty for his invaluable insightful tips and tricks on how someone can really make their application noticeable as a non-traditional applicant. His insights were practical, detailed and highly relevant. I left the session feeling confident and ready to work on my application. Thanks a lot to the team for such a valuable event!

Rusty's talk was incredibly helpful in understanding how MBA admissions look at non-trad applicants. I really appreciated his candor and him being very honest about his own background as a way of leading by example.

I attended Rusty’s session on “Landing an M7 MBA Acceptance with a Non-Traditional Background’ on the Leland platform. I wanted to learn more about non-traditional backgrounds, being a female applicant of younger age and with a double major that might not fit the routine backgrounds of IB, consultants, and tech. I joined the webinar a bit late but found Rusty to be an excellent presenter and gained useful nuggets of information that will help me as I think through my applications and essays. It was a thoughtful presentation and I appreciate Rusty providing this information to applicants.

As a non-traditional MBA applicant, I was initially concerned that all my efforts would be overlooked in favor of candidates with banking or consulting backgrounds. However, attending Rusty's info session on non-traditional applicants completely changed my perspective. I learned that my unique background is not a hindrance but actually a strength. I'm incredibly grateful to Rusty for this eye-opening insight and the renewed confidence I now feel.

Rusty was well prepared and balanced sharing the information that he had prepared with answering questions from the attendees. He did a good job generalizing questions that were too specific for the group setting. Overall, a thoughtful presentation that will help anyone as they consider their business school applications.