Michelle Stockman

Michelle Stockman
I have both the insider knowledge of admissions and expertise in shaping narratives that can propel you to the front of the pack. Do you need help developing essays that reveal your compelling vision, achievements, and authentic voice? Do you want to work with someone who’s spent years both in front of and behind the camera and knows how to hook an audience? Let’s collaborate and put my perspective and experience to work for you!

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Area of Specialty

  • College
  • Master of Business Administration/Business School (MBA)
  • Executive MBA (EMBA)
  • Journalism programs
  • Fine arts programs

What You Need to Know about Michelle

  • Former staff member with the Columbia Business School admissions office, with firsthand insight into what makes an application shine and how decisions are made.
  • More than 15 years’ experience coaching hundreds of MBA, EMBA, and graduate school candidates to acceptances at top U.S. and European programs, including those at Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton, with many receiving merit-based scholarships.
  • BA in history from Brigham Young University
  • MS in journalism from Columbia University

Why Work with Michelle?

  • As a video news producer and journalist, Michelle knows how to find an applicant’s story and make it compelling, as well as how to capture someone’s attention for a stellar interview.
  • She has lived and worked in New York City; Washington, DC; India; Pakistan; Qatar; Germany; France; and China, which has attuned her to the challenges international clients face, enabling her to guide their thought process during school selection.
  • Outside of work, Michelle enjoys cycling around the lakes of Berlin and going for a swim, taking nighttime nature walks, and discovering quirky music and theater performances in Europe’s cultural capitals.

What Do Michelle’s Clients Say?

From our first meeting, I was impressed with Michelle’s exceptional ability to listen and understand my personal story, which really helped in making my university application stand out. Thanks to Michelle, I was accepted into my top-choice university with a significant scholarship. It’s rare to find someone so committed and capable of providing advice that resonates on such a professional level.

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Michelle’s Clients Have Been Accepted to

  • DePaul
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Northeastern
  • Oberlin College
  • San Diego State
  • UC Davis
  • University of Indiana - Kelly
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst (Honors)
  • UC Riverside
  • University of Vermont, Honours College
  • University of Nottingham
  • China Europe International (CEIBS)
  • CMU (Tepper)
  • Columbia Business School
  • Columbia Business School (Deferred)
  • Columbia Business School, J-Term
  • Cornell (Johnson)
  • Duke (Fuqua), MMS
  • Georgetown (McDonough)
  • Harvard Business School
  • HEC, MiM
  • IE
  • INSEAD
  • London Business School
  • MIT (Sloan)
  • Msc International Business & Diplomacy Program
  • Northwestern (Kellogg)
  • Notre Dame (Mendoza)
  • NYU (Stern)
  • Oxford (Saïd)
  • Stanford (GSB)
  • UC Berkeley (Haas)
  • UCLA (Anderson)
  • University of Maryland (Smith)
  • University of Michigan (Ross)
  • University of Penn (Wharton)
  • University of Toronto (Rotman)
  • Yale School of Management
  • Columbia Business School
  • Cornell (Johnson)
  • MIT (Sloan) EMBA
  • NYU (Stern)
  • University of Texas (Mccombs)
  • Columbia University, MA Journalism
  • Columbia University, MS SUMA
  • Columbia University, Stabile Program
  • Cornell University, Master of Professional Studies in Global Development
  • Imperial College, MS Climate Change, Management and Finance
  • Northwestern (Manill)
  • Northwestern, Journalism
  • NYU, MA Journalism
  • Texas A&M
  • TU Delft
  • UC Berkeley, MA Journalism
  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Penn (Wharton)
  • USC
  • UT Austin

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