In Memoriam: Accepted’s Consultant Todd King

The entire staff of Accepted mourns the loss of our outstanding consultant Todd King, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly a few days before Christmas. We are all shocked and deeply saddened.

Todd joined our team in 2011 after several years of work in MBA admissions consulting, and his clients gained acceptance to the most prestigious and competitive programs in the country, including Harvard, MIT, Wharton, Duke, Stanford, and others.  Todd’s friendly, enthusiastic, blunt yet professional manner made him an asset to Accepted and helped him build a grateful fan base among the hundreds of applicants he worked with.

Todd brought to his work a varied career that added value and insight to his advising. He served in US Army Military Intelligence and as a computer graphics technologist for movies produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, including “The Lion King” and “Mulan.” After earning his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, he worked in strategy consulting for an international investment group based in China, and split his time between China and the U.S. ever since his days at Sloan.

Todd’s no-nonsense assessments of applicants’ essays helped him guide clients from sometimes fuzzy drafts to crisp and focused, winning essays. As one client said, “Words cannot describe how talented Todd is at this. I was honestly blown away. He was able to get me to write about how I truly felt with the questions he asked and the way he probed. . . . Essay editing and guidance is one thing, but to have the ability to pull out your subconscious – the thoughts jammed way in the back of your head, those “true” learnings, is an exceptional skill.”

We at Accepted are grateful to have had Todd has part of our team for the past four and a half years.  He will be greatly missed. Our deepest condolences go out to his family members: parents, siblings, wife and daughter.  

By Judy Gruen, MBA admissions consultant since 1996 and author (with Linda Abraham) of MBA Admission for Smarties: The No-Nonsense Guide to Acceptance at Top Business Schools.

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