About MIM Prep
We help ambitious students into the schools, and the careers, that change their trajectory.
MIM Prep replicates the most demanding admissions method in the world for students applying to Europe’s top schools. Six specialists, sixty hours and one obsession per file: getting you in.
34
admits to London Business School for 2025/26
20
admits to HEC Paris for 2025/26
84%
into one of their top-3 schools
Our story
It started with one application that couldn’t fail.
Four years ago, Thomas Dussud applied to Europe’s top business schools with a profile that was far from ideal: a Warwick degree in Chinese and Economics rather than pure Economics, a 63% average and a 650 GMAT, forty points below the LBS average. On paper, he was not a target candidate.
Thomas’s starting profile
650
GMAT, forty points below the LBS average
63%
average at university
Warwick
Chinese and Economics, not a target degree
Failure was not an option in his family. His father’s side are engineers from France’s best engineering schools, his sister went from France’s top pharmacy university to ESSEC, and his brother studies Computer Science at UCL. There was no plan B: HEC Paris, INSEAD or London Business School.
No plan B. HEC Paris, INSEAD or London Business School. Nothing less.
That pressure forced him to optimise every part of his application. With a mother from Shanghai, he turned to Chinese admissions agencies, the most advanced in the world. In a market where more than fifty thousand students compete for a handful of places at a single Shanghai high school, counselling has become a system: every component prepared by a specialist, nothing left to chance.
It got him into London Business School. MIM Prep was built to bring that same method, and that same refusal to accept mediocrity, to students applying to Europe’s best programmes.
Milestones
From one application to 120 Masters students placed.
2022
MIM Prep starts coaching its first students. Prices have risen every year since, as results improved.
2024–25
25 LSE Bachelor’s offers confirmed.
2025/26
120 students placed: 34 at LBS, over 10% of the MiM class, 31 at LSE and 20 at HEC Paris.
2026
Our target: 40 admits at LBS and 30 at HEC Paris.
Today
Intake capped by track: 120 Masters, 100 Bachelors, 80 internship and 60 graduate-role students a year.
Why we exist
We took the most advanced admissions method in the world and brought it to Europe.
Most agencies give generic advice to large classes. The Chinese counselling model does the opposite: an obsession with results, relentless optimisation, and a specialist for every part of the file. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
One expert per component
Your file is broken down into components, and each one has a dedicated specialist: CV, hook, essay body, recommendations, interview, test, internship.
Results, not volume
Most agencies grow by adding students. We cap our intake and grow by improving outcomes. Every time our results go up, so do our prices.
The earlier, the better
Admissions is a race. The earlier we start with a student, the more of the file we can optimise and the higher the chances of admission.
Six specialists. Sixty hours. One file.
See every component of the method, who handles it and how, from the CV to the final offer.
Explore our method →
Our culture
What we believe, and how we behave with every student.
01
Results over volume
We cap our intake on every track: 120 Masters, 100 Bachelors, 80 internship and 60 graduate-role students a year. We would rather coach fewer students and get every one of them in.
02
We hire the best, not the cheapest
Our coaches and student managers come from the best admissions agencies and programmes, and we pay to keep them.
03
Coaches who were just in your seat
Our coaches sat the same exams and applied to the same schools two or three years ago. They know you also have exams, an internship search and a social life.
04
Proactivity
Admissions is a race. We work best with students who move fast, take feedback and start early.
05
Honest from the first call
If we are not the right fit, or a target is unrealistic, we tell you. Trust is worth more than a sale.
06
No detail left to chance
Every component is optimised, checked and reviewed before it is sent. That is the standard Thomas needed, and the one we keep.
A note from our founder
“Our vision is to build the best preparation company in the world. That is why we take small cohorts and put every file through a selection-committee simulation before it is sent.”
“I applied with a 650 GMAT and a 63% average, and there was no plan B. Everything I learned getting into LBS is what we now do for every student.”
Thomas Dussud
Founder, MIM Prep
The team
Mentors from LBS, HEC, ESCP, INSEAD, MIT and Harvard
LBS
Noah Ditz
Master in Financial Analysis
LBS
Daria Tilich
Master in Management
ESCP
Elliot Lafragueta
Master in Finance
LBS
Margaux Devergne
Master in Financial Analysis
LBS
Oscar Bourgois
Internship & graduate roles
BCG
Anna Matty
Internship & graduate roles
HEC Paris
James Burns
Master in Management
LBS
Maritina Ntokou
Master in Financial Analysis
LBS
Jack Jennings
Master in Financial Analysis
HEC Paris
Marie Zhang
Master in Management · Cambridge MPhil
HEC × Polytechnique
Coralie Diab
Master in Management
LBS
Theodora Combier
Master in Management
ESCP
Nines Lafragueta
Master in Finance
HEC × Fletcher
Jean Jiang
Master in Management
HEC × Yale
Vassiliki Gini
M2M dual degree
HEC × Yale
Alix Archambault
M2M dual degree
Harvard
Tim Kim
MBA
Harvard
Martin Lans
MBA
MIT
Henrik Veiberg
Master in Finance
MIT
Guil Hayoun
Master in Financial Mathematics
MIT
Thomas de Montaigne
Master in Finance
LBS × Fudan
Aron Tisoczki
Global Master in Management
HEC × Polytechnique
Fayed Al Rashid
X-HEC Entrepreneurs
LBS
Ali Jouay
Master in Management
HEC Paris
Ninon Lavolle
Master in Management
LBS
Paul Simonin
Master in Financial Analysis
HEC Paris
Filippo Benetti
Master in Management
LBS
Max Fontaine
Master in Financial Analysis
LBS
Manuel Jose Poveda Perez
Master in Financial Analysis
HEC Paris
Malak Ouarzazi
Master in Management
ESSEC
Victor Tresca
Master in Management
LBS
Max Kim
Master in Financial Analysis
HEC × Sciences Po
Mael Ivan Blin Rincon Gallardo
Master in Management dual degree
LBS
Alice Friedberger
Master in Financial Analysis
HEC Paris
Hamza Berrada
Master in Management
LBS
Ali Daoudi
Master in Financial Analysis
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