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June 04, 2019
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Joined: Oct 26, 2013

Posts: 35

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Verified GMAT Classic score:
710 Q49 V38

Good but not the best !

REVIEWER IDENTITY VERIFIED by score report [?]

I had used EG's services for preparing/reviewing all admission essays to the 11 b-schools I had applied to in the year 2016. While I appreciated the honesty of my assigned reviewer, Mr. Shailesh Otari , who was quite honest in stating that my 680 Gmat score would get me no good US b-schools with scholarship, his simple lack of timely responses to my multiple emails while reviewing my essays miffed me . Just to be clear on the facts, I eventually went on to score a 710 on the GMAT and applied to the 11 b-schools as stated above. The standard essays of Mr. Otari are a "please all , offend none" kind of a thing. They are pretty much boiler plate sentences tweaked enough to make it look like one's own. But, I doubt whether any top b-school would not recognize the boiler plate essays that were shaped up by Mr. Otari. Since I had very little time, I decided to wing it with EG, but many of my friends who had a high GMAT score and went on to using much costlier essay reviewing services got very good b-schools ( Anderson, Cornell etc.) . My background aside, I expected a bit better essays from EG for the money I paid. My advise to US MBA aspirants is to first score a good Gmat score ( >=740), ask few MBA admits about their review of the essay services they used, and then take a final call. Of-course, all of this requires time and effort, which I didn't have.

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