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TestMasters.com

TestMasters.com

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

Manhattan Prep

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

Marvel Admissions

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

MBAPrepAdvantage

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 [...]

Essay Snark

Essay Snark About Essay Snark is a both an admissions consulting service and informative blog (or ‘blahg’, as they call it), with a cutting but intelligent analysis of schools and real-world events. Some of their articles require membership on the site and are not available to the public. Basics Outside of their blog, Essay Snark [...]
E-Gmat.com

E-Gmat.com

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

Empowergmat.com

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

Personal MBA Coach

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 [...]
Optimus-Prep.com

Optimus-Prep.com

Optimus-Prep.com About Optimus-Prep concentrates solely on the GMAT platform. This New York based upstart offers us little in the way of their roots and origin. Instead, they offer reviews and testimonials based upon their success rates along with a fifty point improvement or your tuition is refunded. Optimus is another on-demand venue that allows students [...]
ManhattanReview.com

ManhattanReview.com

ManhattanReview.com About Dr. Joern Meissner, a tenured business school professor, began his concept of Manhattan Review back in 1999. He has supervised and overseen all of the programs since its inception. Meissner believes that prep programs created and presented by professionals that hold an MBA are not as valuable as his company, led by Meissner [...]