About Michael Justin

I am very proud to be a member of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), the most elite organization for admissions consultants. It has fewer than 200 members worldwide. I was admitted based on my track record over the years of helping clients obtain admissions to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, UPenn, Duke, Columbia, among other elite schools. . I employ a methodology I’ve developed called “The Storyline Methodology,” a name I have trademarked. It refers to my way of helping clients share their journeys via a consistent story about their lives and academic objectives including their career goals following their university educations. My methodology incorporates the training in modern Positive Psychology that I received from Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of the field. I am proud to be a graduate of Dr. Seligman’s first Authentic Happiness masterclass, which I completed while a graduate student in Pastoral Counseling at Andover Newton Theological School, now part of Yale Divinity School. I apply Positive Psychology and Pastoral Counseling techniques in particular with clients who are deeply intimidated by the business school application process. . Previously, I was a professor of finance, having taught at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and most recently, the University of Maryland where I was a three time winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2011, I wrote “The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity” which was published by McGraw-Hill in 2012 and honored at the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Outstanding Book Awards in 2013. . An alumnus of Brown University and New York University, I have held academic appointments as Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University and Practitioner Instructor at Johns Hopkins University. Most recently, I taught at the University of Maryland where I was a three time winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award and a member of the University Senate. Prior to entering the professoriate, I was an international institutional investor, earning the Chartered Financial Analyst designation along the way and subsequently becoming a multiple time grader of the CFA Level 3 exam. From 2003 to 2005, I served as the first Financial Markets Expert-in-Residence in the United States Department of Labor.