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I’d be disappointed to see if it is a competitor alt account.
Nah unfortunately I have heard a lot of similar experiences first-hand recently. I also had a subpar experience when I applied last year in R2 through Career Edge’s help. Although he seems to have a lot of experience with ISB applications, the quality of feedback on my essays and mock interviews was extremely basic. When I reviewed my ’good to submit’ essays with my seniors and other alums, almost everyone called out many red flags in my essays, and called them quite shallow. I had to rewrite 2 of my essays few days before the R2 deadline. I was disappointed to see that Sarthak was not invested in my application as one would expect that a consultant would be more proactive in brainstorming the essay’s content and structure until the applicant is satisfied.
When it came to interview prep, the quality of mock interview that he took was not at all similar to what I faced in the real interview. Thankfully I was able to ask him to get me some other alum who was a bit more experienced. However, none of these interview prep sessions even remotely mentioned that case studies could be asked as well, even though I had clearly mentioned consulting as my post-MBA goal. My interview went really bad with a lot of grilling and had a case study which I was not expecting. No surprises here, I was rejected.
Would not recommend his services. This is not to defame anyone at all. I appreciate all the helpful posts that he and his team shares on LinkedIn regarding B-schools. But my ISB prep experience with him was disappointing.
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Agreed. One thing common among many of our feedback’s is that he takes feedbacks personally or on ego which becomes problematic for candidates to he open. Second would be his common feedback of “Looks good” to almost anything you send

Probably we can conclude on this and let future candidates decide basis considering both the positive and negative feedback’s.
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Hi, I had applied to a ISB previously in ylp program but didn’t submit stage 2 application that required submission of gmat score. I’m currently considered a reapplicant, and i can see another essay -‘Reapplicant essay’ in the form’s essay section. Am I a reapplicant if I didn’t go through with my stage 2 application? And do I have to write the reapplicant essay? Has anyone faced the same issue?
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Hello All...congrats to all the admits..I also got an admit this year being a re-applicant and would like to add some points if it helps anyone
1. This year has been really competitive/ unexpected as I have seen many extremely good applicants being rejected without even an Interview call.
2. I believe from being a reapplicant and being on both sides of the coin (Reject after Interview Previous year/ Admit this year), I can say that Interviews are not necessarily a make or break. Previous year I had confidence in my interview but could not convert, this year I was probed a lot and had no expectations but converted, nonetheless.

I had used the same MBA Consultant ADMITSTREET both the times as
1. Their thinking approach towards Essays I found really precise.
2. Their fees is also not that High.
Overall I am grateful to team ADMITSTREET for helping me both the times.

IF anyone has any doubts please do DM . Happy to help. All the best.
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I got an admit from iimabc and isb with 655 FE gmat score . My suggestion would be keeping the application as natural without any consultant secure a better chance for selection.
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Sarthak be like : "Mujhe kyun toda"

He posted 30 of his candidates converted out of 38, insane conversion although he just posted 8-9 screenshots but ok. At least half log toh aa sakte the defend krne bro.

30 candidates apply bhi kiye the unke through ye mere ko kaafi doubt hai
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Fake whatsapp chats can be created very easily btw

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Sarthak be like : "Mujhe kyun toda"

He posted 30 of his candidates converted out of 38, insane conversion although he just posted 8-9 screenshots but ok. At least half log toh aa sakte the defend krne bro.

30 candidates apply bhi kiye the unke through ye mere ko kaafi doubt hai
Bro people don’t defend their consultants.

Kaam hua - bas, phir tata bye bye.

But we’ve had some remarkable ones over the last 5 years. Still connected, they reach out, ask how things are
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Conqueror Saab aap defend na kro inko, the reviews above and kaafi jagah are enough to know what work is happening

Now he’ll write a note starting with "My mentees" and act humble.
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Nah unfortunately I have heard a lot of similar experiences first-hand recently. I also had a subpar experience when I applied last year in R2 through Career Edge’s help. Although he seems to have a lot of experience with ISB applications, the quality of feedback on my essays and mock interviews was extremely basic. When I reviewed my ’good to submit’ essays with my seniors and other alums, almost everyone called out many red flags in my essays, and called them quite shallow. I had to rewrite 2 of my essays few days before the R2 deadline. I was disappointed to see that Sarthak was not invested in my application as one would expect that a consultant would be more proactive in brainstorming the essay’s content and structure until the applicant is satisfied.
When it came to interview prep, the quality of mock interview that he took was not at all similar to what I faced in the real interview. Thankfully I was able to ask him to get me some other alum who was a bit more experienced. However, none of these interview prep sessions even remotely mentioned that case studies could be asked as well, even though I had clearly mentioned consulting as my post-MBA goal. My interview went really bad with a lot of grilling and had a case study which I was not expecting. No surprises here, I was rejected.
Would not recommend his services. This is not to defame anyone at all. I appreciate all the helpful posts that he and his team shares on LinkedIn regarding B-schools. But my ISB prep experience with him was disappointing.
Glad to see so many people openly sharing their feedback. I had an eerily similar experience with Sarthak as well. To all R2/R3 aspirants, trust me you’ll be way better off writing the essays yourself. Similar to everyone’s experience, first call with Sarthak felt rather productive but it felt like he was suggesting same essay structure and templates to everyone with "Multiple pin codes" story. In hindsight, I am so happy that i decided to change the opening of the essay to something that was a lot more personal to my journey and skills. Further, the lazy approach towards providing feedback of "looks good", "badhiya hai" was not helpful at all. For essay 3, I saw random words like "want to find a cofounder / will join VC club" when it wasn’t aligned with my short term or long term goals even remotely. A friend had an even worse experience where Sarthak didn’t even spend more than 10 minutes to review any of his essays. Additionally, despite his entrepreneurial background and his immediate goal to get back to his venture right after graduating, he was suggested to go ahead with management consulting as his post PGP goal (makes no sense) and both of us had literally SAME answer for essay 3 despite writing completely different drafts given our completely opposite Post MBA goals.

TLDR, choose your consultant wisely and the only person you should blindly trust is YOU, not any consultant with great reviews or an alumnus with great experience especially if there is money involved.
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Sarthak please write a post LinkedIn, tagging at least 20/30 converts you had this year for R1.
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There’s a good chance competitors and opponents are jealous 😓
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Bro competitors ko chup karane ka ninja technique yehi h nah to post the converts along with names and photos/LinkedIn profile link

Aise random 30/38 post krne ka kya matlab
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Bro competitors ko chup karane ka ninja technique yehi h nah to post the converts along with names and photos/LinkedIn profile link

Aise random 30/38 post krne ka kya matlab
With experience I can tell you that even after that people who don’t want to trust will keep making excuses.


Telling you. They’ll make something up. Negative news spreads faster
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There’s a good chance competitors and opponents are jealous 😓
Not a great approach to negate the experience of multiple aspirants by saying ’competitors are jealous’ . If this information helps: I managed to secure an admit this year (thank god i decided to change my essays entirely and work with other people for interview preparation).
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Bro competitors ko chup karane ka ninja technique yehi h nah to post the converts along with names and photos/LinkedIn profile link

Aise random 30/38 post krne ka kya matlab
Our flagship has 100% success rate so far but you’ll still see people questioning stuff.

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Not a great approach to negate the experience of multiple aspirants by saying ’competitors are jealous’ . If this information helps: I managed to secure an admit this year (thank god i decided to change my essays entirely and work with other people for interview preparation).
I’m not gonna discount the bad experiences definitely. But since this is an anonymous forum, you never know who’s incentives are what. And I’m sorry to hear about your bad experience
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With experience I can tell you that even after that people who don’t want to trust will keep making excuses.


Telling you. They’ll make something up. Negative news spreads faster
Real I’d se aao career edge walon
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