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Velociti TM Advising - The Global Standard
A Note From Walter Hutchinson
What is Velociti TM? Why is it fundamental to our process and to your goals?
Velociti TM is our standard for working with applicants around the world. It targets a combination of characteristics which have attracted admissions committees to my clients every year. Not coincidentally, acceleration and momentum are hallmarks of our advising process, because both increase odds of admissions success - making the name of the standard mission-appropriate.
Whenever I personally vet someone who wants to become an MBA Velociti TM Advisor at ApplicationAdvantage, having a degree from a Top-10 school, admissions experience or exposure to a particular industry are minimal requirements. The example I set directly through this standard at ApplicationAdvantage is higher and more discerning, because most of my firm's clients are preparing for global careers that stretch them, requiring exceptional versatility, multicultural insight, creativity, courage of conviction, and leadership savvy.
That's what our clients expect. That's what we deliver.

 The Meaning of Velociti TM to You

V - Values

Our principle, your challenge: Influence by multicultural experience, diversity both globally and locally, an unusual background, generally exposure outside of one's comfort zone, and how the challenges you faced contributed to who you have become.

Admission relevance: Every top MBA and Graduate professional program is interested in what values shape you and how you will apply them.

Your MBA Velociti TM Advisor will guide you on how to effectively communicate your values to admissions committees.


E - Engagement

Our principle, your challenge: In a word: gravitas. Personal and professional charisma in your country, culture of industry. The degree to which you impact other people. Do you attract through what you do as well as who you are?

Admissions relevance: Will classmates want to know you? Will they see your participation in the school program as an enhancement of the overall quality of their experience? You can be 100% certain that admissions committees will examine your application for answers!

Your MBA Velociti TM Advisor will guide you on how to effectively communicate your engagement to admissions committees.


L - Leadership

Our principle, your challenge: Aspirational. Global. Sectoral. The qualities you possess for getting people to either share or follow your vision. Proof of success or compelling evidence of potential.

Admissions relevance: Perhaps the Number One criterion admissions committees seek in candidates. No application to a top school can succeed without being absolutely convincing on this point.

Leadership is one of the key qualities which your MBA Velociti TM Advisor will assist you in communicating to admissions committees.


O - Originality

Our principle, your challenge: What makes you YOU. Lingering influences of your current locale or place of origin. The things you cannot go without. Habits. Instinctual behavior. Patterns of thought. How those elements converge to forge  your passions, delights, flaws and anything else that distinguishes you as an individual.

Admissions relevance: Committees want original personalities that contribute to the diverse mosaic of a class' composition. If 15 strong applicants are in the same profession with similar leadership track records, their best hope for differentiation and admittance, is to express originality.

Demonstrating your originality to admissions committees becomes much easier with help from your MBA Velociti TM Advisor.



C - Credibility

Our principle, your challenge: Aspirations anchored by a clear path to achievement whether aimed at goals in your home country or on a larger scale. Vision with context. Dreams tethered to a roadmap that can be traced back to where you are professionally and personally at this moment.

Admissions relevance: Can you actually go where you think you want to go? is it believable? Before committees begin to get excited about the prospect of admitting you, they will want reassurance that you are credible.

Your MBA Velociti TM Advisor will guide you on how to effectively project credibility - a cornerstone of strategies for winning over admissions committees.


I - Innovativeness

Our principle, your challenge: Moving past the "thinking out of the box"-type of corporate clichés and their equivalent. Applied imagination, relative to the resources and opportunities both within and outside your reach.

Admissions relevance: Committees care more about how you applied your imagination or filled a creative gap than about how you followed through on some task that seemed to be a predictable next step or obvious remedy.

SPECIAL STRATEGIC SUGGESTION: If you have a short leadership track record but out-sized career goals, you will need to demonstrate innovativeness in order to prevent your application from suffering a credibility gap.

Your MBA Velociti TM Advisor provides invaluable feedback on the extent to which your innovativeness will distinguish you with admissions committees.


T - Trust

Our principle, your challenge: Prove that you are who you say you are. Demonstrate your claims through the way your thought process works. Establish how a pattern of behavior which benchmarks your character and convinces that you are authentic. But achieve those goals without appearing to disingenuously "put on a show" - which would instantly backfire.

Admissions relevance: Committees will not admit you if they do not trust you - a candid, unspoken truth which underlies their encouragement for you to show civic, professional, ethical and personal leadership in your application. On this point, your essays truly become key players in the fate of your candidacy.

Evoking trust in admissions committees begins with the advisory relationship you establish with your MBA Velociti TM Advisor.


I - International Outlook

Our principle, your challenge: If you have none, argue how you will acquire it. If you have it, argue where you will take it. Outlook is relative to your profession and goals, so you must strike the right balance while being sure to underscore how you will continue to enhance your own.

Admissions relevance: No 21st Century career can go very far without international outlook. Committees are interested in people who aspire to influence as much as having the capacity to adapt. Will you thrive in a class represented by more than 50 nationalities? Are you prepared to leverage that international diversity in your career and make it a positive aspect of your personal ethos?

Your MBA Velociti TM
Advisor  is better-positioned personally and professionally than most people, to guide you on how to effectively project your international outlook to admissions committees.


On a cumulative level, you will need to convey globally-oriented Values, Engagement, Leadership, Originality, Credibility, Innovativeness, Trust and International Outlook in order to strengthen your odds of being admitted to a top program.

More than any other factor during your admissions season, your MBA Velociti TM Advisor  will be an indispensable resource as you pursue the goal of persuading admissions committees that the sum of your profile far exceeds its parts.

Testimonials Highlights

"When I began looking at business schools, I figured I would get into maybe 1 or 2. I was so nervous about my chances, that I applied to 12 programs in all. On the recommendation of a friend of mine, I asked Walter for comprehensive help and followed his advice for nearly 10 months while I developed my applications. When I received my first Acceptance Letter from NYU Stern, I was happy enough, because at least I was in at one good school....BUT THEN the other decision letters started coming from INSEAD, Columbia, London Business School, Goizueta, Oxford, Stanford, Kellogg, IESE and finally...my Number 1 Choice....HARVARD!

ACCEPTED AT 10 SCHOOLS!! I had no idea this was even possible. I am still in shock."


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Our Clients have always been accepted to the world's top 20 to 30 schools, regardless of media ranking.
The following chart not only displays the most recent rankings by 3 of the top global news organizations, but also indicates all the schools where ApplicationAdvantage clients have received an offer of admission. Read more...

Multi-Client Placement Indicator =

Businessweek (Regional)
Our Results The Economist (Global)
Our Results Financial Times (Global)
Our Results
Top Ranked U.S.
# 1  University of Chicago (Booth)
# 2  Harvard University
# 3  Northwestern  (Kellogg)
# 4  U. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
# 5  University of Michigan (Ross)
# 6 Stanford University
# 7 Columbia University
# 8  Duke University (Fuqua)
# 9  MIT (Sloan)
# 10 U. California - Berkeley (Haas)
# 11 Cornell University (Johnson)
# 12 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
# 13 New York University (Stern)
# 14 UCLA (Anderson)
# 15  Indiana University (Kelley)
# 16 University of Virginia (Darden)
# 17 UNC - (Kenan-Flagler)
# 18 Southern Methodist U. (Cox)
# 19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
# 20 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
# 21 U. Texas - Austin (McCombs)
# 22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
# 23 Emory University (Goizueta)
# 24 Yale University
# 25 USC (Marshall)
# 26 University of Maryland (Smith)
# 27 U. Washington (Foster)
# 28 Washington - St. Louis (Olin)
# 29 Georgia Institute Technology
# 30 Vanderbilt University (Owen)

Top Ranked Non-U.S.
# 1 Queen's University
# 2 IE Business School
# 3 INSEAD
# 4 U. Western Ontario (Ivey)
# 5 London Business School
# 6 ESADE
# 7 IMD
# 8 University of Toronto (Rotman)
# 9 IESE Business School
# 10 University of Oxford (Saïd)

Second Tier Non-U.S.
# • Cranfield University
# • HEC - Paris
# • Manchester Business School
# • McGill University (Desautels)
# • University of Cambridge (Judge)
# • York University (Schulich)































































































1  IESE Business School, Spain
2  IMD, Switzerland
3  Berkeley - Haas, USA
4  Chicago Booth, USA
5  Harvard Business School, USA
6  Dartmouth - Tuck, USA
7  Stanford, USA
8  London Business School, Britain
9  U. Penn - Wharton, USA
10 Vlerick Leuven, Belgium
11 Cambridge - Judge, Britain
12 York - Schulich, Canada
13  NYU Stern, USA
14  HEC Paris, France
15  Northwestern - Kellogg, USA
16  IE Business School, Spain
17  U. Melbourne, Australia
18  Cranfield, Britain
19  MITSloan, USA
20  Columbia, USA
21  Henley Business School, Britain
22  Warwick, Britain
23  INSEAD, France / Singapore
24  Virginia - Darden, USA
25  Michigan - Ross, USA
26  Mannheim, Germany
27  Yale SOM, USA
28  Duke - Fuqua, USA
29  ESADE, Spain
30  Hong Kong UST, Hong Kong
31  Washington-Foster, USA
32  Cornell - Johnson, USA
33  Carnegie Mellon - Tepper, USA
34  Notre Dame - Mendoza, USA
36  USC - Marshall, USA
37  Dublin - Smurfit, Ireland
38  Faculty Bus/Econ, U. Hong Kong
39  UNC - Kenan-Flagler, USA
40  Boston University, USA
41  Rotterdam - Erasmus, USA
42  Int'l U of Monaco, Monaco
43  Rice U - Jones, USA
44  Hult International, USA
45  Ohio State  - Fisher, USA
46  Indiana U. - Kelley, USA
47  Oxford - Saïd, USA
48  Georgetown - McDonough, USA
49  Texas Austin - McCombs, USA
50  UCLA Anderson, USA
51  Maryland - Smith, USA
52  Emory  - Goizueta, USA
53  Durham Business School, Britain
54  Wisconsin School of Bus, USA
55  Macquarie GSM, Australia
56  UCalifornia - Davis, USA
57  Manchester Bus Sch, Britain
58  Penn State - Smeal, USA
59  Monash U, Australia
60  EMLYON, France
61  Iowa, U-  Tippie, USA
62  Minnesota, U - Carlson, USA
63  Edinburgh Bus Sch, Britain
64  Vanderbilt - Owen, USA
65  Washington U. - Olin, USA
66  Bath, U., Britain
67  Aston Business School, Britain
68  Imperial College, Britain
69  Audencia Nantes, France
70  Pittsburgh, U - Katz, USA
71  Nanyang Bus School, Singapore
72  SDA Bocconi School, Italy
73  South Carolina - Moore, USA
74  EDHEC Business School, France
75  McGill – Desautels, Canada
76  City University - Cass, Britain
77  Wake Forest - Babcock, USA
78  Chinese Univ, Hong Kong
79  Lancaster U, Britain
80  Brandeis International, USA
81  Grenoble, France
82  B. Columbia - Sauder, Canada
83  Birmingham Bus Sch, Britain
84  Thunderbird, USA
85  Int'l Univ of Japan, Japan
86  Newcastle U, Britain
87  Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
88  Southern Methodist - Cox, USA
89  NUS Business Sch, Singapore
90  EADA, Spain
91  Strathclyde, Britain
92  Georgia, U. - Terry, USA
93  Curtin U., Australia
94  TiasNimbas School, Netherlands
95  CEIBS, China
96  Leeds U., Britain
97  EGADE- Monterrey, Mexico
98  Nottingham U, Britain
99  IIMA, India
100 Florida, U - Hough, USA

Not Numerically Ranked

Case Western - Weatherhead, USA
Wits - Witwatersand, South Africa
Bradford School, Britain
HEC Montréal, Canada
Nyenrode, Netherlands
Southampton U, Britain
American University - Kogod, USA
Arizona, University - Eller, USA
ENPC School, France
Asian Institute of Mgmt, Philippines










































































































1   U. Pennsylvania: Wharton       
1   London Business School       
3   Harvard Business School       
4   Columbia Business School       
5   Insead       
6   Stanford University GSB       
6   IE Business School       
8   Ceibs       
9   MIT Sloan   
10 New York University: Stern
11 University of Chicago: Booth    
12 Iese Business School       
13 Dartmouth College: Tuck       
14 IMD       
15 Indian School of Business       
16 Hong Kong UST
17 Cambridge: Judge       
18 Esade Business School       
19 Yale School of Management     
20 University of Oxford: Saïd       
21 Northwestern : Kellogg       
22 Duke University: Fuqua       
23 University of Michigan: Ross    
24 Emory University: Goizueta       
24 Nanyang Business School       
26 Rotterdam, Erasmus   
27 Lancaster     
27 University of Virginia: Darden   
29 HEC Paris       
29 UCLA: Anderson       
31 UCal Berkeley: Haas       
32 Manchester Business School   
32 Australian School Business   
34 Cornell University: Johnson     
35 NUS - Singapore
35 Cranfield 
37 Warwick Business School       
38 SDA Bocconi       
39 Imperial College
40 Georgetown : McDonough       
41 Strathclyde Business School    
41 University of Arizona: Eller       
41 City University: Cass       
44 University of Maryland: Smith   
45 UNC: Kenan-Flagler       
46 Rochester: Simon       
47 U. Toronto: Rotman   
47 U. Western Ontario: Ivey       
49 York University: Schulich       
49 U. Texas at Austin: McCombs   
51 Carnegie Mellon: Tepper       
52 Melbourne Business School     
53 Rice University: Jones       
53 University of Pittsburgh: Katz   
55 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign     
56 Vanderbilt University: Owen     
57 Leeds University
57 Boston University
57 Texas A & M : Mays   
60 Indiana University: Kelley       
60 USC: Marshall       
60 Washington University: Olin      
63 University of Florida: Hough      
63 Michigan State : Broad       
63 University of Iowa: Tippie       
63 Pennsylvania State : Smeal       
67 Washington : Foster       
67 Thunderbird
67 U. South Carolina: Moore       
70 SMU: Cox       
71 University of Cape Town GSB  
71 Minnesota: Carlson       
71 U. British Columbia: Sauder       
74 U. California at Irvine: Merage   
75 Vlerick Leuven Gent      
76 Arizona State U: Carey       
77 Aston Business School       
77 University of Alberta       
77 Notre Dame: Mendoza       
80 Durham Business School       
80 Purdue University: Krannert     
80 Ohio State University: Fisher    
83 Birmingham Business School   
83 University of Bath
85 George Washington U.      
86 Wake Forest : Babcock       
87 Grenoble
87 Bradford/TiasNimbas       
89 Boston College: Carroll       
89 Babson College: Olin       
91 Eada       
92 Coppead       
92 University of Edinburgh    
92 Brigham Young : Marriott       
95 Case Western: Weatherhead   
95 Wisconsin School Business     
97    Hult International
98 University of Miami   
99 University Dublin: Smurfit       
100 Nottingham University
































































































































 
 
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