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As the GMAT Turns 60, Experts Discuss How to Prepare for the Test Sixty years ago, prospective business students did for the first time what's almost become a rite of passage for MBA candidates: They took an admissions test for business school. On Feb. 6, 1954, 1,291 people took the exam that would later be [...]

Princetonreview.com About Attaching a name like “Princeton” onto your company, one would naturally associate this with the Ivy League crowd. This company is actually part of The Match Group. After looking beyond the masthead, these fellows count 30 years of experience with assisting over 3.5 million students get into the college of their choice. They [...]

TestMasters.com About Test Masters was founded in 1991. With over 20 years of experience, they tout “Test preparation excellence when it comes to improving GMAT and GRE scores.” Along with other preparatory practices, Test Masters claims improvement with elevated test scores on the SAT, LSAT, PSAT and ACT results as well. Basics When it comes [...]

Manhattan Prep About Teach for America alumnus and Yale graduate Zeke Vanderhoek, began with a vision of students learning better, if given more qualified teachers, back in 2000. He assembled a hand-picked team of 99th percentile educators to give potential learners a more substantial preparatory experience and the concept of Manhattan Prep was born. Offering [...]

Marvel Admissions About Marvel Admissions is a consultant service that adds coaching to the mix, with a particular emphasis on teaching applicants how to be more outgoing and capable of dealing with the many challenges that can arise in a workplace. Employees include a number of MBA graduates, many of whom have served on admissions [...]

MBAPrepAdvantage About MBAPrepAdvantage is a full-service consulting firm that claims a 95% success rate at getting candidates into one of their top schools. Most of the work is done by founder Michael Cohan, a prolific teacher and regularly-cited expert on MBA admissions. Basics MBAPrepAdvantage offers nine primary consultation services. Unlike many other consulting firms, these [...]

E-Gmat.com About With mostly non-native instructors, technicians and staff from India, E-GMAT hones their skills on getting better test results and scores for those who speak English as a second language. Their company is especially catered for Indian nationalists working on the verbal test. Two of E-GMAT’s three co-founders, Rajat Sadana and Payal Tandon, both [...]

Empowergmat.com About Empower GMAT emphasizes their connections with schools that their alums have attended and recommends an expensive, yet what they believe to be a beneficial, visit with an MBA admission consultant. They consider this an investment into your future, considering earning an MBA may add a substantial amount of income over the course of [...]

Personal MBA Coach About Personal MBA Coach is a full-service consulting company and claims a 96% success rate at getting clients into one of their top two or three schools. They offer support with full-time, part-time, and Executive MBA programs, and cite that each applicant will only ever have one consultant working with them throughout [...]