Frequently asked

Questions, answered.

The honest answers to what applicants ask us most.

About Admission Park

What is Admission Park, and how does it help me?

Admission Park is a platform built specifically for MBA applicants, organized into six guided steps: building your application strategy, choosing your schools, finding your stories, writing your essays and resume, prepping for interviews, and a plan that keeps it all on track. Each step comes with verified school data, insight from alumni and admissions officers, and prompts to help you do that part well.

And it meets you wherever you are. If you're just starting, Application Strategy and Application Plan give you the full picture before you waste a month figuring out the process or chasing a weak angle. If you're deep in essays with deadlines closing in, it keeps you organized and moving. Either way, you're not piecing the process together from scratch, and what you end up with is specific to you.

What makes Admission Park different from other MBA tools, blogs, and books?

Two things.

First, it's built around you, not a generic applicant. We assess your strengths and weaknesses from your own profile, then help you shape a career vision and stories that fit where you actually stand.

Second, it's the whole journey in one place, in order. Most blogs and books hand you fragments and leave you to assemble them. We've built every module around the path we walked ourselves, so each step leads into the next.

Admission Park, other MBA application tools, or ChatGPT: which should I use?

It depends on what you're short of.

Most other MBA application tools sell you a course: hours of video to get through before you start doing anything. ChatGPT and Claude are general tools, fast and accurate on whatever a school publishes, and that's where they stop. They can't tell you what an admissions officer really weighs in your case, or what someone inside that program wishes they'd known.

Admission Park is built for this one job. The six steps start with why the application asks what it asks and where you honestly stand, so you understand your own case before you write. Then verified data on 40+ programs, insight from alumni and admissions officers, and Milo, who has your profile and drafts already and answers at 2am. $399 a year, $299 right now during soft launch.

It also sits well next to anything else. Apply on your own and this is your guidance from start to submit. Hire a consultant and it's your 24/7 backup between sessions.

Who is Admission Park for?

Anyone applying to an MBA program in English. Career changers, first-time applicants, non-native speakers, people who feel they have no story worth telling. The product runs in English for now, so the one thing you need is to be comfortable working in it.

What is Admission Park's official website?

goadmissionpark.com is our only official website. Similarly named domains are not affiliated with us. If a page about Admission Park is not on goadmissionpark.com, it is not ours. If you have any further questions, email us at support@goadmissionpark.com.

How it works & AI

Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude?

You can, and they're great for quick questions. But for something this high-stakes, you'd be doing the fact-checking yourself, and application season is not when you have time to separate signal from noise.

Everything in Admission Park has been checked by our team, who've been through the MBA application themselves, and laid out in the order you'll actually move through it. That frees you to spend your energy where it counts: shaping your stories, prepping for the test, building your network.

Does Admission Park write my essays for me?

No, and that's the point. We do real work alongside you. We help you uncover your true stories and organize them into a Story Bank, then walk you through detailed guidance for every type of essay you might face, covering how to approach it, how to structure it, and the mistakes to avoid. What we hand you is a strong foundation and a clear path forward. You bring your own voice on top of it, which is exactly why the essays end up reading like you and no one else.

How does Admission Park keep my application within each school's AI policy?

Admission Park is built to help you think and write, not to write for you. We give you real tools, frameworks, and prompts, and you produce your own work on top of them. That is exactly what schools expect. Some now ask applicants to disclose or limit AI use, and the real risk sits with people who let AI generate their essays wholesale. Because the ideas and words you submit are genuinely yours, you stay on the right side of those policies.

Will my personal stories be used to train AI?

No. Your stories and everything you put into Admission Park are never used to train AI. They stay private to you and your application.

Pricing & access

How much does Admission Park cost?

Full access is $399 a year, and that covers every school you apply to, with no per-school fee. During soft launch, new members pay $299 for the first year. For comparison, admissions consultants typically charge $315 to $585 for a single hour. A free tier is available and requires no credit card.

Why does it cost much less than hiring a consultant?

Honestly, because we want as many applicants as possible to be able to use it. We went through this process ourselves, and the choice back then was stark: around $12,000 for a consultant covering three schools, or piecing everything together alone. We built Admission Park so that structured, personalized guidance is within reach of anyone serious about applying.

Economically it works because we do not sell hours. The platform serves many applicants at once, while Milo keeps the guidance specific to you, so a lower price never means a generic product.

What can I do for free before I pay?

Plenty. Sign up free and start using the product right away! You will get a personalized profile analysis by simply uploading your resume and answering a couple additional questions. You can explore every school with full detail on a few of them, and try the story builder. It is enough to feel the quality before you decide to pay.

How long do I have access, and can I use it for all my schools?

One purchase gives you full access for a full year. That covers your whole application season, for as many schools as you apply to. There is no per-school fee. And we won't auto-renew your account with unexpected charges.

What payment methods do you accept?

We accept credit card and Alipay.

Coaching & support

If the tool is this good, why offer 1:1 coaching?

Because they do different things, and you might want both. Admission Park gives you the structure and resources to do your strongest work on your own, and for most people that's plenty. Coaching is there for when you want a sharp outside read on your specific situation: which story to lead with, which weakness an admissions officer will really focus on. The tool keeps you organized and moving. A coach helps you spot the one or two moves that change your odds.

What if I want help from a real person?

You can, at any point! The best way to start is to sign up. Even on the free plan, whenever you want a second pair of eyes on something specific, you can fill out a short request inside the platform and our team will reach out to connect you with a coach. And if you would rather have someone guide you the whole way, from school selection to hitting submit, our full-service Advisory pairs you with a dedicated advisor who carries your whole application through. Any other questions, just email us at support@goadmissionpark.com.

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