What Cornell Johnson Is Looking For | MBA 360 Admissions

Who Genuinely Belongs Here

When a client asks me whether they belong at Johnson, I try to move them off the question they usually arrive with — "do I have the stats?" — because that's rarely what settles it. The more useful question is whether Johnson is the right next chapter for where you're headed, and what you'd bring to a class small enough to feel your presence in it.

Here's the through-line that connects the rest of this page. Johnson is built around a small community and an immersion model, and both reward a certain kind of clarity — a working sense of the direction you want to go deep on. That doesn't mean having every answer. Plenty of students refine their direction once they're here, especially inside the immersion they choose. But the more of that clarity you bring, the more the structure works for you. It's less a requirement than a description of who tends to get the most out of the place.

A useful self-test: read the immersion list. If specific entries genuinely pull at you — you can picture yourself in the Investment Banking Immersion, the Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion, the Digital Technology Immersion — that's a good sign. If they read like a feature you'd tolerate rather than one you'd reach for, it's worth asking what's drawing you to Johnson specifically, and whether a more flexible program might suit the way you like to work.

The setting is part of the same honest calculation. Johnson is small, and Ithaca is Ithaca — not a feature you can opt out of. For a lot of people, "I'll know my whole class by name" is exactly the appeal. For others it isn't, and that's worth knowing about yourself. The applicant who picks Johnson while wishing they were in a city, or in a 900-person class, spends two years working against the program's geography and structure. Worth being honest with yourself about that before you apply, not after.

A few things that are easy to misread in these numbers:

The acceptance rate

It's meaningfully higher than M7 rates (HBS around 10%, Stanford around 6%), and for applicants who genuinely fit Johnson's profile, that gap is real and useful — the odds here are better. But a higher acceptance rate is not lower selectivity. It reflects a more self-selected pool. Applicants who specifically want a 900-person class don't apply to Johnson. The ones who want the small program, the immersion model, the Ithaca setting, and the Cornell network do. The result is a pool where the marginal candidate is already a serious fit, and the admit decision is closer than the headline suggests. The advantage is real for fit-matched candidates. The bar still has to be cleared.

The GMAT

A 710 median is competitive but sits below M7 medians, and the middle 80% runs from roughly 660 to 740 — an 80-point spread that tells you scores don't decide outcomes here on their own. A score in the 660s or 670s is inside the band, and a strong overall file can absorb it in a way that would be harder at the most selective programs. Johnson reads the score in the context of everything else. And if testing genuinely isn't your strength, there's a waiver: every Full-Time MBA applicant can request a GMAT/GRE waiver, and the school states that requesting one won't disadvantage you in review. It's best suited to candidates who can demonstrate analytical and quantitative ability another way — a quant-heavy transcript, relevant work, an advanced degree. One honest caveat worth knowing: admissions itself notes that, depending on your goals, a strong score can still help with internship and full-time recruiting, where some employers screen on it. So a waiver can solve the application without fully solving recruiting — weigh it against where you're headed, not just whether you'd rather skip the test.

The GPA

A 3.4 median is more flexible than at most top-15 peers, and Johnson reads academic records in context. Applicants from rigorous programs, applicants who improved meaningfully over time, applicants who balanced school with significant work or athletic commitments — all read accordingly. The question is whether you can do the work. The GPA is one input toward answering it, not the answer.

The industry mix

Finance, consulting, and tech dominate the pre-MBA backgrounds and the post-MBA destinations. Applicants from atypical backgrounds get in every year — but they usually position toward one of those tracks through the immersions. If your goals sit far outside that center of gravity, Johnson can still work for you. You'll just need to be deliberate about how.

The veteran share

At 14%, Johnson is one of the more military-friendly programs in the top tier, with active recruitment, strong representation in the Park Fellows community, and a culture that integrates military backgrounds well. If you're a veteran, Johnson deserves a closer look than its ranking position alone might suggest.

The profile isn't a benchmark you need to match line by line. It's a picture of who Johnson admitted last year. Your job is to give the reader evidence that places you in that picture clearly.

Common Myths About Cornell Johnson

"A 30% acceptance rate means Johnson is easy to get into."

 It doesn't. The pool is self-selected, and the people competing for spots are largely serious about Johnson specifically. The rate reflects the shape of the pool, not the height of the bar. A fit-matched applicant has genuinely better odds here than at M7 peers — but the application still has to make the fit credible.

"Ithaca is too remote to recruit from."

Top employers — many of the same firms that recruit heavily at M7 schools — come to campus, and applicants routinely underestimate how active Ithaca recruiting is. NYC is about four hours away, and the Cornell Tech connection lets students spend meaningful time in the city during the second year. The remoteness is real. The career constraint it appears to create from the outside is mostly not.

"Johnson is a finance school."

Finance is the single largest destination — about 41% of the most recent graduating class — but consulting takes roughly another quarter, and tech is substantial. The immersion structure deliberately serves multiple industries. The school is broader than its finance reputation.

"You need the Tech MBA if you want NYC."

No. The Two-Year MBA in Ithaca recruits heavily into NYC and includes options for time at Cornell Tech in the second year. The Tech MBA is a distinct one-year program for a distinct applicant — covered separately below.

"Cornell gives less money than the M7."

It depends on your profile, and the difference is structural. HBS and Stanford use need-based aid, which targets high-need applicants and offers little to candidates whose finances don't qualify. Cornell uses merit-based aid, so strong candidates can receive substantial offers regardless of need. For applicants whose family circumstances don't qualify them for need-based aid at M7 programs, Cornell's merit model often produces meaningfully better outcomes. And the Park Leadership Fellowship is a full-tuition award competitive with anything in MBA admissions.

The Curriculum, and What It Reveals

Johnson's curriculum is built on three distinctive features: a structured fall core, the immersion semester in spring, and elective-driven flexibility in the second year — including the option to take weekend intensive courses at Cornell Tech in NYC.

The fall first-year core covers the standard MBA fundamentals. What distinguishes Johnson begins in the spring, when first-years enter one of the immersion programs. Each is a semester-long deep dive: industry-specific coursework, faculty with practitioner backgrounds, visiting executives, treks, case competitions, and a direct pipeline to summer internships in that industry. The immersion is the single biggest factor that should drive whether Johnson is right for you.

The second year opens up — electives across the Johnson catalog plus access to the broader Cornell ecosystem in engineering, agriculture, hotel administration, law, and more. The school's claim of access to thousands of courses across Cornell is real, and underused by students who don't plan for it. The ones who actively combine Johnson with Cornell Tech, Dyson, the Nolan Hotel School, or Cornell's other graduate programs build educations that look meaningfully different from their peers' at other schools.

What the curriculum reveals: Johnson assumes you've already begun the positioning work that other programs start in year one. For the right applicant, the immersion compresses conventional MBA exploration into a focused second semester and pulls that applicant into recruiting pipelines earlier. Arrive without a working sense of direction and the same structure that rewards focus can feel less useful — which is exactly why the direction-setting work is worth doing before you arrive rather than after.

Culture and Community, Beyond the Marketing

Johnson's culture is unusually communal — partly by design, partly by the simple arithmetic of 276 people in Ithaca. The word students reach for is "tight-knit," and unlike at most schools that use it, it's earned. You'll know most of your classmates by name within weeks and see them repeatedly across two years, in classes, clubs, immersion teams, and a dense local social scene.

This is where Cornell's community messaging separates from everyone else's. A lot of schools say "collaborative." Johnson backs the claim with a structure that makes anything else nearly impossible — a class small enough that there's nowhere to hide, an immersion model that puts you on the same small teams for a semester, and a town where you'll keep running into the same faces. The closeness isn't a personality the school hopes the class will develop. It's a near-inevitable product of the design.

The texture is more peer-supportive than competitive. Curve-based grading exists but doesn't drive the daily dynamic. Students collaborate openly, and second-years actively mentor first-years through the Johnson Leadership Fellows and Park Fellows. The culture sits closer to Tuck or Fuqua than to the more independent feel at Booth or Wharton.

Life at Cornell Johnson

Let's talk about what it's actually like to live here for two years, because the brochures show you autumn foliage and quietly skip February.

Start with the honest part. Ithaca winters are long, gray, and snowy — this is the Finger Lakes, not a coastal city, and the sun can go missing for stretches. If you need a dense urban grid and a 24-hour city at your door, sit with that before you commit. NYC is reachable — more on that below — but it's a trip, not a Tuesday night.

Now the part the brochures get right, because it happens to be true. "Ithaca is gorges" started as a bumper-sticker pun and turns out to be a literal description: the town sits in a landscape of waterfalls and gorges, with more than a hundred falls within a short radius. The Cascadilla Gorge Trail climbs roughly 400 feet from downtown to campus past six waterfalls — some students use it as a commute, which is a strange and wonderful thing to be able to say. Fall Creek runs through its own gorge on campus. Eight miles north, Taughannock Falls is one of the tallest waterfalls in the Northeast. Cayuga Lake is right there for kayaking, sailing, and the Finger Lakes wineries; fall brings apple picking and foliage that earns every cliché thrown at it.

The food scene punches well above the town's size — Ithaca has been called one of the country's "foodiest" towns, with more restaurants per capita than New York City. A few worth knowing your first week: Moosewood, the vegetarian institution that's been turning out cookbooks since the 1970s; the Cornell Dairy Bar, where the ice cream is made from the university's own dairy (the agriculture schools really do have the best ice cream); Purity Ice Cream downtown for the old-fashioned version; and Shortstop Deli, open around the clock, whose hot subs have a genuinely devoted following. Weekends tend to happen at the Ithaca Farmers Market on Cayuga Lake and the pedestrian Ithaca Commons. Nightlife clusters in Collegetown near campus and downtown by the Commons. If you ski, Greek Peak is about 25 minutes away, and Cornell Outdoor Education runs everything from rock climbing to cross-country.

The "I got in" Instagram photo: the pedestrian suspension bridge over the Fall Creek gorge, hanging well over a hundred feet above the water, campus on one side and the drop below. For the b-school version, it's the facade of the restored Gothic Sage Hall, Johnson's home since the late 1990s. Either one tells your feed exactly where you landed.

Here's the thing to understand about all of it: the geography is the community. In a city, your classmates are one option among thousands for how to spend an evening. In Ithaca, you'll run into them on the gorge trail, at the Commons, at the Dairy Bar — and that constant, unavoidable overlap is exactly what produces the closeness Johnson is known for. The remoteness and the intimacy are the same fact, seen from two angles. Whether that's a feature or a cost is one of the more honest questions you can ask yourself before applying.

What Cornell Johnson's Essays Are Actually Testing

Johnson's essay set is compact. The application requires a Goals Statement plus one of two essay options, with an optional clarification essay and a separate Park Fellowship essay by invitation. (These reflect the most recent published cycle; confirm current prompts on the Johnson site before drafting.)

Goals Statement (350 words)

The format is unusual: you fill in the blanks for short- and long-term goals — "Immediately post-MBA, my goal is to work as a(n) ___ at ___ within ___" — then write up to 350 words on how you'll use Johnson's resources to get there.

This is one of the most directive goals questions in MBA admissions, and the directiveness has a purpose. Johnson wants to see that your goals are specific enough to be reachable — that you have a clear destination the program can actually help you get to. The immersion model rewards that kind of clarity, so the question is really asking whether you've thought concretely about where you're headed. A generic answer ("Consultant at McKinsey within Strategy") followed by 350 words flattering Johnson is the version that falls flat. The strongest versions show you've actually studied the immersions, identified specific Johnson resources beyond the obvious — a faculty member, a club, a course, a Cornell Tech intersection — and can explain how each serves the trajectory you named. The underlying job, again: give the reader evidence to advocate for you when your file is sitting alongside fifteen others with similar stats.

Essay — choose one (350 words)

Johnson offers a choice between two prompts, and the choice itself is part of what's being read.

Option A — Impact:

"At Cornell, our students and alumni share a desire to positively impact the organizations and communities they serve. How do you intend to make a meaningful impact on the Johnson community?"

This is the school asking, in nearly plain language, how you'll enrich the cohort — contribution, not consumption. It's tempting to answer with the generic "I'll share my perspective." The stronger move is to name a specific, concrete contribution: a perspective you've actually earned, a community you'd build, a resource you'd bring that Johnson doesn't already have. If you choose this option, the contribution should be something Johnson couldn't get from another applicant in your industry or background.

Option B — The Unique Trait That Defines Me:

"What is something unique about you that others will remember you by, and how will this trait help you contribute and engage with the Cornell MBA community?"

The more personal of the two. It asks for something genuinely distinctive and how it shows up in community. Where this one tends to go wrong is the quirk that isn't actually unique ("I love coffee," "I'm an avid traveler"). The strongest versions land on something true about how you work, think, or show up — something the reader can picture in a section discussion, on an immersion team, in a late-night problem set.

My Advice:

Draft both — or at least outline each one well — then keep the stronger. Don't choose based on which sounds easier; the two prompts pull in different directions, and which produces the better essay is genuinely personal to your material. Often a solid outline of each is enough to reveal which one has the richer material, before you commit to writing a full draft of either.

Optional Essay (350 words)

For clarification of gaps, weaknesses, or context — a semester where your GPA dipped, a gap on your résumé, anything a reader might otherwise wonder about. Schools can't read minds, and when a reader doesn't know why something happened, the mind tends to fill the silence with a negative assumption. So when there's a good reason, give it to them rather than leaving them to guess and arrive at the wrong one. The flip side: this isn't space for a fourth essay. If nothing on your record genuinely needs context, leaving it blank is the stronger move. (Required for reapplicants, where it's used to address how the candidacy has strengthened.)

Park Leadership Fellows Essay (500 words, by invitation)

The Park Leadership Fellowship is Johnson's most prestigious award — full tuition plus a dedicated leadership-development program, up to 25 awards a year, for U.S. citizens in the Two-Year MBA. It's offered by invitation after the interview, so this essay isn't part of the standard application; invited candidates write it as a separate evaluation stage. The prompt asks about a past leadership experience and how the Fellowship would support your growth as a leader. Applicants ask about it constantly, which is why it's worth understanding even though most readers won't write it.

Recommendations

Johnson requires one recommendation and accepts up to two. That's unusual at this tier — most peers require two — and the implication matters: each recommendation carries more weight. Choose carefully. The strongest recommenders for Johnson can speak specifically to your leadership behavior, your collaboration, and your fit with a small-community culture. And generic praise is far less useful than specific, behavior-grounded examples — so choose recommenders who can speak to particulars, not just endorse you warmly.

The Interview

Johnson interviews are by invitation only. The format is blind — the interviewer has not read your application — and conducted on Zoom, in person in Ithaca, or occasionally in your city. It's résumé-based, which means your résumé needs to be a sharp summary that supports a conversation, not a checklist of accomplishments.

What it's actually testing: whether you'd fit the small-community culture, whether your stated goals are coherent and credible, and whether the person in the room matches the person in the file. Applicants who've read about Johnson on a rankings site but never engaged with the immersion structure tend to struggle here. The interviewer is doing the next reader's job — deciding, in real time, whether you're a community fit.

Application Logistics

• Tests: GMAT, GMAT Focus, GRE, or Executive Assessment accepted (the EA is unusual for a full-time program; Johnson takes it). A GMAT/GRE waiver is available by request to any Full-Time MBA applicant — you complete the request within the application, with a decision typically inside about a week (see the GMAT note in the class profile for when it's actually worth using).

• Application fee: $200 (fee waivers are available — attending an admissions webinar has been one route in past cycles).

• Video component: None required.

  Transcripts: Self-reported at application; official copies required upon admission.

Deadlines and Round Strategy

The most recent published cycle (2025–2026, Class of 2028) ran three rounds for the Two-Year MBA:

• Round 1: September 17, 2025 — decision December 5, 2025

• Round 2: January 8, 2026 — decision March 27, 2026

• Round 3: April 7, 2026 — decision May 22, 2026

Cornell typically posts the next cycle's dates between mid-June and mid-July; check the Johnson admissions site for current-cycle deadlines before you plan. The Cornell Tech MBA runs on its own timeline (below).

On round strategy

Johnson is unusual at the top-15 level in keeping Round 3 substantively active rather than vestigial. R1 and R2 are still the dominant rounds. Applicants competitive for the Park Leadership Fellowship should aim for R1, since Park decisions follow the interview and earlier rounds give the school more runway to evaluate Park candidacy. R3 admit outcomes at Johnson are meaningfully better than at most peers — but scholarship dollars tighten, because most merit aid is allocated earlier.

What I tell clients:

If scholarship matters and you're competitive for Park, R1 is the call. If scholarship isn't central and another month of revision would meaningfully strengthen your file, R2 is still very competitive. R3 is a real option when your timing genuinely doesn't allow earlier rounds — but it shouldn't be the strategic preference if R1 or R2 is open to you.

The Cornell Tech MBA

A separate Johnson program worth understanding even if you're applying to the Two-Year MBA, because applicants frequently weigh the two.

The Johnson Cornell Tech MBA is a one-year program based at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in NYC. It's built for applicants who already have technology backgrounds — engineering, product, software, technical operations — and want a compressed MBA focused specifically on technology business. It runs on its own application timeline (a priority deadline in early October, a January round, then rolling admissions), with decisions typically within about six weeks of submission. Note that its tuition structure differs substantially from the Ithaca program's.

Who it's for: tech-industry applicants who want to compress the MBA to one year, want to stay in or move to NYC, and want tech-specific coursework, projects, and recruiting. Who it isn't for: applicants who want the traditional two-year experience, exposure to industries beyond tech, the small-community feel of Ithaca, or the full summer internship needed to pivot industries.

If you're undecided, the safer default is usually the Two-Year MBA. It offers more flexibility, more breadth, and the option to spend time at Cornell Tech through second-year electives anyway. The Tech MBA is the right call when you specifically want what it offers.

Employment Outcomes, Read for What They Signal

For the Class of 2025: of 285 graduates, 239 were seeking employment; 85% received offers within three months of graduation and 83% accepted. Median base salary was $175,000, with an average base of $158,426 and an average signing bonus of $39,795. Financial services was the top destination at 41% of the class, followed by consulting at roughly a third, with tech, healthcare, consumer products, energy, and other sectors making up the rest. Top employers included Amazon, McKinsey, Citi, EY, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Bank of America — many of the same firms recruiting heavily at M7 schools.

One quiet signal worth reading: the median base ($175,000) sits above the average ($158,426). That's the reverse of the usual pattern, and it tells you something — a cluster of graduates at the finance-and-consulting standard pulls the median up, while a tail of lower-paying roles in nonprofit, consumer products, and the like pulls the average down. In plain terms: the typical Johnson grad lands at the top-tier compensation band, and the school still makes real room for people headed somewhere other than the highest-paying industries.

What the rest of the data signals: Johnson graduates have direct paths into the destinations that drive MBA-level outcomes, the recruiting relationships are with the firms applicants associate with top placement, and the compensation tracks with peer programs at the top of the top-15. The finance-and-consulting concentration is real — together they hire most of the class — and the immersion structure prepares students specifically for those tracks.

So: if your goals sit in finance, consulting, or established roles in tech, healthcare, or consumer products, Johnson's outcomes are strong and the immersion prepares you directly. If your goals are in tech entrepreneurship, the founder track, or specifically Bay Area tech, Johnson can support you — but you'd be working with established channels rather than with a network built for those paths.

Cost and Financial Aid

• Annual tuition (2025–2026): $86,596

• Estimated total cost of attendance: approximately $119,994 per year

• Aid approach: Merit-based. About 30% of students receive partial scholarships.

• Park Leadership Fellowship: Full tuition plus leadership development. Up to 25 awards per class. U.S. citizens only; Two-Year MBA only; by invitation following the interview. (Described more fully in the essays section above.)

Johnson's merit-based model is the strategic point here. Because aid isn't gated on need, strong candidates can sometimes negotiate scholarship against peer schools' merit offers in a way that simply isn't possible at need-based programs. The Park Fellowship is the most distinctive feature — a fully funded leadership-development pathway with real cohort identity inside the broader class.

How Cornell Johnson Differs From Tuck

This is the most-searched Johnson comparison, and the one most often answered with surface marketing. Both schools are small, both rural, both lean on community as positioning. The differences that matter are structural.

Pedagogy

Tuck uses the case method extensively, with smaller-than-HBS sections but the same daily case-prep rhythm. Johnson runs a mix of cases, lectures, and — most distinctively — immersion learning. The immersion is unique to Johnson and the single biggest curricular differentiator. If the daily case rhythm is what you're after, Tuck leans harder into it; if it's industry-specific deep dives, that's Johnson's signature. Many applicants want elements of both, which is worth sitting with rather than resolving too quickly.

Size and texture

Tuck (around 290) and Johnson (around 276) are similar in scale, but the feel differs. Tuck's community is more uniformly intense — the residential structure and rural Hanover setting produce a single cohort with limited subgroups. Johnson's is similarly close but more differentiated, because the immersion clusters students into industry-focused subgroups for a semester. And the broader Cornell University gives Johnson students a graduate community well beyond the MBA.

Recruiting and geography

Both recruit heavily into finance and consulting. Tuck's gravity runs Boston-to-Northeast; Johnson's tilts a bit more toward NYC tech through the Cornell Tech connection and a bit less toward Boston. Both place well into top firms. The differences are at the margins.

Essay style

Tuck's essays ask directly about fit with Tuck and cultural alignment. Johnson's ask about specific career direction and contribution to the community. Different prompts — but both weight fit heavily relative to programs that read primarily for raw impressiveness.

The cross-admit decision

Applicants choosing between them usually decide on pedagogy (case method vs. immersion) or geography (Hanover vs. Ithaca, which are not interchangeable despite both being rural). Some pick Johnson for the broader Cornell network or Cornell Tech access; some pick Tuck for the more uniformly intense community. Neither is wrong. They optimize for different things.

School fit is hard to feel from the outside, so here are concrete, checkable signals. If two or three of these sound like you, you're probably reading Johnson correctly.

• You can already name the immersion you'd choose — not "I'd explore my options," but "I'd do the Investment Banking Immersion, and here's why it fits where I'm headed." The specificity comes naturally to you.

• You could fill in the Goals Statement blanks today without flinching. You have a role, a company, and an industry in mind, and you can defend the path between here and there. That clarity is the single trait Johnson's structure rewards most.

• A 276-person class reads as the appeal, not the catch. The idea of knowing your whole cohort by name — and running into them on the gorge trail and at the Dairy Bar — sounds like the point of going, not a compromise you'd accept.

• You'd actually use the wider Cornell ecosystem. You can point to something specific outside the b-school — a Dyson course, a Nolan offering, an engineering class, a Cornell Tech intersection — that you'd build into your two years.

• You can name what you'd contribute. Not "I'm a hard worker," but a particular perspective, community, or capability you've earned and would bring to a class that's small enough to feel its absence.

The honest counterpart to the section above. None of this means you wouldn't be a strong applicant somewhere, or that you shouldn't apply here — that's your decision. It means the specific match with Johnson is worth examining before you spend a cycle on the application.

Johnson rewards direction more than most programs, because the immersion gives you a single semester to go deep rather than two years to range widely. If you're still figuring out where you're headed, that's not a reason to rule Johnson out — but it is worth doing some of that direction-setting work before you apply, so your application reflects real clarity rather than a placeholder. Programs with more flexible, decide-as-you-go architectures — Booth, Yale SOM, Kellogg — give you more room to range while you sort it out, and they're worth a look alongside Johnson if that freedom matters to you.

It's a harder fit if your goals require Bay Area founder networks or specifically Boston-area corporate roles. Johnson's network can support those goals, but you'd be working against the recruiting gravity rather than with it — worth weighing programs sitting closer to those hubs.

And it's worth questioning whether the small-class texture suits you if you'd want the option to be anonymous in a large crowd. The 276-person community is dense, repetitive, and very much not anonymous — you'll see the same people over and over. If you recognize yourself there, look honestly at larger programs you're equally excited about, rather than choosing Johnson and spending two years wishing it were bigger.

If two or three of these land, treat it as a prompt rather than a verdict. The most useful next step is usually to ask whether the schools that fit you better are programs you're genuinely as excited about — and to do that fit work honestly now, while it can still shape where you apply.

When Working With Someone Helps, and When It Doesn't

Johnson's application has features that genuinely benefit from outside input. The Goals Statement's fill-in-the-blank structure looks simple and is hard to do well — most early drafts I see are too generic about role, company, and industry, and not specific enough about how Johnson's structure serves the goal. The choice between Option A (Impact) and Option B (Unique Trait) is another place where a second reader earns their keep: applicants tend to draft the option they think sounds stronger rather than the one where their actual material is richer.

That said — no consultant can manufacture clarity about your career direction. If you don't yet know what you want to do, or why a Johnson immersion is the right preparation for it, the work before the essay is figuring that out. The essay then becomes a record of that thinking, not a substitute for it.

If you'd like to talk through whether your application is at the stage where outside input would help, a free consultation is a low-pressure way to find out. We'll talk about where you are, what Johnson is likely to weigh in your case, and what matters most before you draft.

Barbara Coward