Natalie Grinblatt

Natalie Grinblatt
Whether you are applying to college, business school, or grad school, I specialize in helping you develop a winning strategy while crafting a compelling narrative that brings your story to life. With 19 years of admissions experience and 16 years as a successful consultant, I have guided clients to achieve admission to their dream schools and would love to help you do the same. Together, we will showcase how your experiences reflect your ambitions and create a plan that resonates with your target schools, distinguishing you from other applicants. Let me help you shine!

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Area of Specialty

  • College
  • Master of Business Administration/Business School (MBA)
  • Executive MBA (EMBA)
  • Deferred MBA
  • Master of Finance (MIF)

What You Need to Know about Natalie

  • Former admissions dean/director at the University of Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, and Arizona State University Carey, where she reviewed more than 70,000 applications and interviewed more than 2,500 candidates.
  • Trained nearly 700 admissions directors and alumni volunteers to select outstanding candidates for admission to the University of Michigan, Cornell University, and Arizona State University.
  • BA from the University of Michigan
  • MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business
  • Lives in Michigan and Arizona

Why Work with Natalie?

  • Natalie has helped clients gain admission to top MBA, EMBA, college, and graduate programs, including those at Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Berkeley, Chicago, Northwestern, and Yale.
  • Natalie is highly collaborative and takes a compassionate yet strategic approach, tailoring her guidance to match each client’s unique personality and goals. She excels at bringing out her clients’ best and most authentic stories, making the application process more manageable and deeply personalized.
  • She has traveled to more than 40 countries, guiding and counseling prospective students on admission and scholarships.
  • Natalie has SCUBA dived with sharks.
  • She is a passionate puzzle solver and thinks escape rooms are paradise.

Professional Affiliations

Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (Member since 2008)


What Do Natalie’s Clients Say?

I really could not have done it without Natalie. She really knew how to pull the best out of me and how to position my experiences in a way that fits the culture and values of each school. I had such an amazing experience working with Natalie. After working with someone from another consulting company last year, I was hesitant to take a chance on a different consulting company, but I took a risk and it was the best decision I made. She changed my view of this type of service and the impact it can make on someone’s life. I already have recommended her to some friends of mine who were thinking of applying for an MBA. It’s been a pleasure working with your company and I’m forever thankful.

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Natalie’s Clients Have Been Accepted to

  • American University
  • Arizona State (Carey)
  • Arizona State Thunderbird School of Global Management
  • Babson
  • Boston College (Carroll)
  • Boston University
  • Cambridge (Judge)
  • Chicago Booth
  • Chicago Business Fellows Program - PartTime
  • China Europe Internationall (CEIBS)
  • CMU (Tepper)
  • Columbia Business School
  • Consortium
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Cornell (Johnson)
  • Dartmouth (Tuck)
  • DePaul University
  • Duke (Fuqua)
  • Emory (Goizueta)
  • Erasmus University (Rotterdam)
  • Fordham (Gabelli)
  • Georgetown (McDonough)
  • Georgia Tech (Scheller)
  • Harvard Business School
  • HBS 2+2
  • HEC School of Management
  • IE
  • IESE
  • IMD
  • Indiana University (Kelley)
  • INSEAD
  • King’s College (London), Masters in Global Management
  • King’s College (London), Masters of Science in Strategic Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Lehigh University
  • London Business School
  • Max M. Fisher College of Business (Ohio State)
  • MIT (Sloan)
  • Northwestern (Kellogg)
  • Notre Dame (Mendoza)
  • Oxford (Said)
  • Pepperdine (Graziadio)
  • Rice University (Jones)
  • Schwarzman Scholars, Master of Global Affairs
  • Stanford (GSB)
  • Tsinghua University
  • Tulane University (Freeman)
  • UC Berkeley (Haas)
  • UC Irvine
  • UCLA (Anderson)
  • UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
  • University of Michigan (Ross)
  • University of Penn (Wharton)
  • University of Penn (Wharton/Healthcare Mgmt)
  • University of Penn (Wharton/Lauder)
  • University of Rochester (Simon)
  • University of Texas (Mccombs)
  • University of Toronto (Rotman)
  • University of Washington (Foster)
  • University College of London, Masters in Science
  • University of Virginia (Darden)
  • USC (Marshall)
  • Vanderbilt (Owen)
  • Yale School of Management
  • Babson Global
  • Columbia Business School
  • London Business School Global
  • MIT (Sloan) EMBA
  • Northwestern (Kellogg)
  • NYU (Stern)
  • Oxford (Saïd)
  • Rice University (Jones)
  • Stanford (GSB), MSx
  • Texas A&M (Mays)
  • UC Berkeley (Haas)
  • University of Penn (Wharton)
  • Boston University, MFin
  • Brown PhD
  • BU PhD
  • Cambridge
  • CMU
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell ILR
  • Cornell Tech
  • Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Masters in Media Studies
  • Georgetown
  • Georgetown, Masters in Real Estate
  • Harvard
  • King’s College (London)
  • MIT, MFin
  • MIT, Ph.D
  • Northwestern
  • NYU (Stern)
  • Princeton
  • Schwarzman Scholars, Master of Global Affairs
  • Stanford
  • UC Berkeley
  • University of Michigan
  • USC
  • USC, MSBA
  • Villanova
  • Yale
  • Amherst
  • Boston University
  • Brandeis University
  • Brown University
  • Bucknell
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Claremont McKenna College
  • Colgate University
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Colorado State University
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell
  • Dartmouth College
  • Davidson College
  • Drexel University
  • Duke University
  • Embry Riddle
  • Emory University
  • Georgetown
  • Georgia Tech
  • Harvard
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Loyola University, Chicago
  • Michigan
  • MIT
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
  • North Carolina State Raleigh
  • Northeastern University
  • NYU
  • Occidental
  • Pomona College
  • Princeton
  • Purdue
  • Rice
  • Southern Methodist University (SMU)
  • Stanford
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Swarthmore
  • Syracuse University
  • Texas Christian School
  • The New School
  • Tufts
  • Tufts Early Med (Early Assurance)
  • Tulane University
  • Tulane University Early Med (Early Assurance)
  • UC Berkeley
  • UC Davis
  • UC Irvine
  • UC Merced
  • UC San Diego
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • UC Santa Cruz
  • UCLA
  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • UNC Wilmington
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Illinois (Chicago)
  • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Penn
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Richmond
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Texas
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin
  • USC
  • Valparaiso University
  • Vanderbilt
  • Wake Forest
  • Washington University
  • Wellesley College
  • Yale

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