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Machmud M.
5.0
GSB student with experience pulling MBA applications together quickly
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Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Worked at The White House
Available September 23 at 6:30 PM UTC
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Machmud’s MBA Qualifications
Open to working with clients outside the U.S.
Machmud has helped clients get into these schools:
I'm a member of the Stanford GSB Class of 2026 and pulled my application together as a non-traditional applicant in a month! I culled through every piece of MBA admissions info available online and on Leland and feel passionate about getting applicants from underrepresented backgrounds through the door at top schools.
Machmud can help with:
Editing
Secondary Review
School Selection
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
Machmud also coaches for Law School, Master’s Programs, Legal Practice, and Public Service. View all.
About Machmud
Hi! I'm a Stanford JD/MBA and coach admissions for both schools, as well as fellowship programs like Rhodes, Knight-Hennessy, and Schwarzman. More importantly, I'm also a first-generation immigrant from Uzbekistan and have been incredibly lucky to have lived out my dreams in some cool places since then. A metro Atlanta, Georgia native, I played baseball at Oberlin College, where I picked up the political bug and earned a Truman Scholarship for leadership in public service. After graduating, I was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and read for an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford. I then worked for four years in a variety of political and public policy-focused roles, including on the Biden 2020 campaign's policy team and at the White House as part of the COVID Response team. I'm now at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School as a JD/MBA candidate & Knight-Hennessy Scholar and have spent my summers in corporate Big Law firms while also keeping a foot in public service as the Chief of Staff to a Georgia State Representative and Founder of Law School Democrats of America, a progressive voting-rights focused non profit. In my free time I'm golfing, reading, traveling with friends, and eating everything that gets in front of me.
Why do I coach?
Coaching is important to me because I've lived the complexities, hidden rules, successes, and failures behind any resume or application. My family came to the United States when I was one, and growing up in metro Atlanta I didn't know anybody who was a corporate or political professional. Since I got to college, understanding the significant challenges that come with navigating the world when you have big dreams but few connections was eye-opening, and I've spent hundreds of hours coaching and mentoring others through law school and business school applications, elite graduate fellowship applications, and career decisions related to politics, public service, and corporate Big Law to try and open up pathways to people who otherwise wouldn't have them. I've helped friends land roles at the White House, get accepted to law schools like Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, and even win awards like the Rhodes, Truman, Marshall, and Schwarzman Scholarships. I also care a lot about happiness and work-life balance in high-octane environments, and love working with people to figure out how to not only get the job of their dreams, but live the life of their dreams. If I can help with any of the above, please reach out, I'd love to meet you!
Work Experience
![Law School Democrats of America Logo](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fcompany.png&w=128&q=75)
Founder
Law School Democrats of America
March 2023 - Present
Got to law school, saw a problem (progressive electoral organizing), trying to fix it.
![Georgia General Assembly Logo](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fcompany.png&w=128&q=75)
Chief of Staff
Georgia General Assembly
August 2023 - April 2024
Supporting Whip/Representative Sam Park's mission of making good policy, stopping bad policy, and building power for Georgia's working families.
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Fellow
Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI)
August 2023 - December 2023
Learned about how the world is wired and the exciting ways we can build a better one.
Summer Associate
Alston & Bird
June 2023 - July 2023
Explored transactional practice groups and midtown Atlanta's best lunch spots.
SEO Law Fellow
Allen & Overy
May 2022 - July 2022
Learned about life at a law firm and witnessed the crash of crypto.
Policy Advisor
The White House
January 2021 - May 2022
Spoke to many governors, mayors, and foreign embassies and saved some lives along the way.
![Biden for President Logo](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fcompany.png&w=128&q=75)
Policy Analyst
Biden for President
August 2019 - November 2020
Learned a lot about Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and COVID. We did it, Joe.
Education
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Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA
2024 - 2026
Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Stanford Law School
JD, Law
2022 - 2025
Knight-Hennessy Scholar, SEO Law Fellow, Law School Democrats of America (Founder), Asian American and Pacific Islander Law School Association (Co-President)
University of Oxford
MPhil, Political Theory
2016 - 2018
Rhodes Scholar
Oberlin College
BA, Politics
2012 - 2016
Truman Scholar, Varsity Baseball, Student Senate (President)
20 Reviews
Overall Rating
5.0
Knowledge
5.0
Value
5.0
Responsiveness
5.0
Supportiveness
5.0
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