How Jake Got Into Georgetown & Carnegie Mellon MBA With Scholarships at Age 27

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From Nickelodeon and YouTube sets in LA… to a $40,000 scholarship negotiation win at Carnegie Mellon—Jake’s journey to business school is anything but ordinary.

At 27, Jake already had a resume full of plot twists:

Graduated from Tufts with a 3.35 GPA as a history major
Spent two years hustling in Hollywood as a production assistant for “Sam & Cat” and a YouTube music video producer
Pivoted back to the East Coast for a role at Kaplan Test Prep, then dove into content management and EdTech
Volunteered tutoring high schoolers in upper Manhattan, helping students boost SAT scores by 50–100 points

But even with all that, Jake could see he was hitting a ceiling: “As a history major, I realized I needed more technical skills—both hard and soft. Business school was the only way to really get there.”

Jake’s stats:

Age: 27 at application (turning 28 in fall)
Jewish background
GMAT: 730 (96th percentile – after three tries and a wild technical snafu, “I had to be persistent just to get my real score reported!”)
“My path wasn’t the classic ‘college to McKinsey’ route. I worried I’d be penalized for not having a perfect, lucrative career history.”

With The Art of Applying®’s Good to Great package, Jake got:

Four rounds of essay and resume editing (“turned my wobbly resume into one I’m really proud of”)
Interview prep that left him “overprepared—actual interviews felt easier than the practice ones!”
Scholarship negotiation strategies that led to a $40,000 email win: “I just sent an email attaching my other offers, and Tepper matched it. No fight. No drama. Just $20K a year.”

Admissions & Scholarships:

Accepted to Georgetown McDonough ($30,000/year scholarship), Indiana Kelley ($20,000/year), and Carnegie Mellon Tepper ($20,000/year after appeal).
Interviews at UVA Darden, Cornell, Indiana, and more. Waitlisted at NYU Stern.

Jake’s advice? “Don’t wait to start your essays. And don’t convince yourself you need a perfect background—just get working on your story and seek out support. It’s a seamless, painless, easy process with the right help.”

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