Maria Wich-Vila

From Argentina to India, from Chile to China, my pre-MBA career allowed me to live and work all over the world. Now, I've combined my passions for technology and education to help people from all over the world get into the business school of their dreams.

The ApplicantLab.com is a patent-pending software system that takes the stress out of applying to an MBA program by providing interactive, step-by-step exercises that are identical to the steps I've been using for years as a pro-bono admissions consultant (I started volunteering for the admissions office at HBS and then never really stopped!) . I combined my software experience with my admissions experience, and ApplicantLab was born!

ApplicantLab was voted "Crowd Favorite" at the regional Havard Business School New Venture Competition, and was named a top 10 "Education Technology Pioneer" by the SIIA. Most importantly, it's helped people get into great schools, at an affordable price!

Come check it out and tell me what you think!

In what little spare time entrepreneurship affords me, I'm a mom to an ebullient five-year old who keeps me on my toes. We're proud to be part of the tight-knit community at the Mandarin Immersion program at Broadway Elementary school in Venice, CA. We're (all!) still getting used to the idea of homework in Kindergarten (!), and we're fighting an almost-surreal budget-cut battle against our local school district, but I think we'll pull through.