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Haha! Best of luck!
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I’m sorry I was supposed to tag this! I’ve got the interview invite today
Congratulations and thanks for sharing that!
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Anyone who has received an email/call relating to the admission decision? Based on previous years, they do start doing that a couple of days before the decision release date.
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Don’t fall prey to fraud companies like "MBA and Beyond", as they are doing business just by making people fool. They don’t have industry expertise as well. Most of them are like MBA and Beyond only
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Don’t fall prey to fraud companies like "MBA and Beyond", as they are doing business just by making people fool. They don’t have industry expertise as well. Most of them are like MBA and Beyond only
Can you share more detailed information on your experience and why you are saying so?
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They charged me approx 5 lacs/ 5,000 USD to target Wharton and MIT for MBA. Inital 2-3 days they helped me with essays, after that they stopped answering my calls and mails
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Would advice you against going for large admissions consulting firms. Did the same last year and it didn’t work out. This year went with an individual consultant and he’s been great to me so far
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Can u share your consultant details
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They charged me approx 5 lacs/ 5,000 USD to target Wharton and MIT for MBA. Inital 2-3 days they helped me with essays, after that they stopped answering my calls and mails
That sounds horrible. Can you share the consultant details?
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Oh great. He spammed a bunch of chat groups. Ugh. 🤦‍♂️ It is concerning However nevertheless... .
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Hi All,

At MBA & Beyond, we are committed to maintain a positive and constructive environment in all our interactions. We do not engage in defamatory or baseless discussions. Our track record and credibility stand on their own, and we take pride in serving our clients with the utmost transparency and integrity.

It is simply not in our practice to collect substantial fees without delivering the promised services. We give 100% effort and dedication to every applicant we work with, ensuring that they receive the full value of our offerings.

We prefer to focus our energy on providing value to those who trust us with their MBA journey, rather than justifying ourselves to individuals who have created account 2 days ago solely to cast doubt on our reputation.
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Would advice you against going for large admissions consulting firms. Did the same last year and it didn’t work out. This year went with an individual consultant and he’s been great to me so far
totally , had same experience with them myself too. wasted 3500$ myself with them. Extremely poor support from them
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adityachhajer, DMmed you
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Hi All,

At MBA & Beyond, we are committed to maintain a positive and constructive environment in all our interactions. We do not engage in defamatory or baseless discussions. Our track record and credibility stand on their own, and we take pride in serving our clients with the utmost transparency and integrity.

It is simply not in our practice to collect substantial fees without delivering the promised services. We give 100% effort and dedication to every applicant we work with, ensuring that they receive the full value of our offerings.

We prefer to focus our energy on providing value to those who trust us with their MBA journey, rather than justifying ourselves to individuals who have created account 2 days ago solely to cast doubt on our reputation.
I’m afraid this is quite a dispassionate response. As a severely disgruntled customer, I can open a social media account just for the purpose of calling out a poor service provider and warning others to avoid them.

In this case, you seem to be invalidating this person’s concern by focusing on when they created their account, whereas you should be engaging them privately to find out whether their claim is legitimate.

$5000 is enough to make anyone go bananas. Not many people in the world have that amount in their savings or retirement accounts, but someone feels shortchanged by your service after paying that sum. Your response is really poor and discouraging.
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Very sad. Let’s end the discussion here. We got the point. Will not take services from the company.

Any idea if we can expect Darden invitations to flow for EA applicants .
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It should be a day before the decision date, not a couple of days...
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Has anyone had any changes to their checklist?
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