ABOUT Dr. VICKI JOHNSON
Breaking the Barriers to success
Vicki grew up attending urban public schools as a straight-A student, but with a 1250 SAT score, she was told she had no chance of attending an Ivy League university. But by leaning into to her storytelling skills, she developed an exceptional ability to pitch her potential that landed her a spot at Cornell, prestigious fellowships in NYC, DC, Germany, and New Zealand, an MSc and PhD, and a dream job in the Obama Administration at the age of 30. Vicki is living proof that you can overcome the odds of failure by using the elements of her MATCH ME Formula, the 7 elements of a winning application. She now teaches her unique approach to thousands, helping them get chosen for the world’s most competitive opportunities.
Founder & CEO, ProFellow®
Dr. Vicki Johnson is Founder & CEO of ProFellow, the leading U.S. platform for information on competitive, career-advancing opportunities, including professional and academic fellowships, top graduate schools, national awards, and accelerator programs. ProFellow.com offers a free, comprehensive database of more than 2,500 programs for emerging and established leaders, scholars, social entrepreneurs, and visionaries. ProFellow partners with the world’s leading programs to reach top applicants, including fellowships like Fulbright, White House Fellows, Schwarzman Scholars, and Rotary Peace Fellows, and more than 50 top U.S. universities.
The MATCH ME Formula®
Dr. Vicki Johnson developed and trademarked the MATCH ME Formula®, the 7 elements of a winning application, which has been used as a teaching framework for developing exceptional applicants to highly competitive graduate schools, awards, fellowships and accelerator programs. The Formula was the framework of Dr. Johnson’s Fully Funded Course and Mentorship Program (2019-2025) which resulted in 547+ competitive Master’s acceptances, 148+ PhD acceptances, 52+ national fellowship winners, and more than $35 Million in graduate awards!
Vicki provides an in-depth guide to using the MATCH ME Formula® in her book “Pitch Your Pitential: The Formula for Winning Dream Jobs, Awards and Elite Opportunities”, with frameworks and case studies on how to use the Formula for any competitive opportunity in your career.
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“As a working, mid-career mother who has been out of higher education for 20 years, I needed to be handed a guidebook to achieve a graduate degree, and Dr. Vicki’s Johnson’s Fully Funded Course gave me just that! I not only got into my dream school, I won a full tuition award.”
CELESTE HAMILTON DENNIS
Mid-career fully funded Master's student in Journalism at UC Berkeley + winner of the Dean's Fellowship ($68,000 funding award)
Why Top Achievers Trust Vicki’s Expertise
“I assumed that my lack of publications and low test scores would eliminate me from top tier schools. Through Dr. Johnson’s Fully Funded Course, I applied to 8 schools and was accepted to 4, fully funded!
Clarice Robinson
PHD Candidate, University of Chicago
$1m
in funding offers
"I would absolutely recommend Dr. Johnson’s guidance to others starting out on their graduate school journeys. I received multiple acceptances and funding offers for top MPP and MBA programs, including a Zuckerman Fellowship ($88,000 award) for a joint MPP and MBA at Harvard University and Wharton Business School.”
Sheila XU
Aspiring Deaf Astronaut
$800K
in funding offers
“I learned ways to make my applications timely, urgent, and elegant. After several years of unsuccessful applications, I am pleased to report that this year I won the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, providing full funding for grad school and a career path to the U.S. Foreign Service."
Andrew Dippel
Thomas R. Pickering Fellow
Winner
Fellowship and Foreign Service Officer