Having crossed the 700+ barrier in GMAT and running short of time, I decided to check with some of my friends who had already gone through the admission process and are now pass outs from some of the elite B schools. Looking at my current situation and based on his personal experience with the Experts Global team, a friend of mine who is an ISB alum suggested me to stop wasting any more time and approaching the Experts Global team.

I decided to go by his suggestion and this turned out to be single best decision taken after having taken the GMAT exam. I soon approached them and my process was started immediately. I got the name of the mentors, detailed timeline and a detailed questionnaire to fill up which came super handy in all my upcoming college applications.

I had regular sessions with my mentor and I found the advise given by my mentor very useful specially on tackling questions such as 'Why MBA?' and 'What after MBA?'. Since I was targeting the Indian B Schools only, my deadlines were all soon approaching. Experts Global not only helped me thoroughly with my essays, they did so well before the deadlines, giving me enough time to complete the college applications.

After having met with disappointment during my first college interview, I immediately connected with my mentor Aakanksha and asked her if I was approaching the interview in the right way and if I should portray my profile differently. She reaffirmed me to stick to the original plan which really worked for me in my next interviews.

I would also like to acknowledge the support of Ms Aanchal Sharma throughout my interview process. She kept me giving some serious feedback and ways of improving, which helped me immensely during the interview. She did not shy away from sending me back to prepare thoroughly during our first interaction which made me take up interview preparation seriously. She kept following up with me and taking repeat mock interviews until I was upto the mark.

Overall I am deeply thankful to them as their professional guidance helped me crack one of my dream college in India- IIM Calcutta. I would recommend them to anyone and everyone :)

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I am very pleased with the results of my association with Experts’ Global. I took up their MBA admission consulting services for eleven schools. Out of these I received admits (with scholarships) to three, Katz, Smith, and William & Mary.

Experts’ Global walked me through the entire admissions process, very effectively. I found their approach to be methodical and well-organized, it was also very informative. They provided me with a lot of video lectures that covered every part of MBA admissions, how to shortlist schools, how to analyze my profile, essay writing etc. These videos covered everything excellently, I learned a lot from these videos and I feel that I was able to make better choices, as a result.

I also learned a lot from how hands on my admission team was. They conducted the whole process, as a series of ‘milestones’ that we worked together on. They were always ready to answer my questions or deal with any additional requests I had, promptly and without issue. I only had to share all my information once, since the team members always made sure that everyone was up to speed.

Most of all, I was impressed with the excellent essays they wrote for me. They worked with me to understand my professional past, present, and what I hoped for the future and then used that to “tell my story”. Their essays really painted a good picture of me as a professional and potential MBA student. I think that is what made me stand out to the admission committee.

I also found Experts’ Global’s interview prep to be a lot of help. It familiarized me with the process and taught me exactly how to conduct myself and answer questions, to make the best impression.

I am very happy with how Experts’ Global handled my admissions process. They delivered on their promised results and were pleasant to work with.

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I availed of Experts’ Global’s MBA admission consulting, for a number of schools. They did an excellent job with my applications to all of the schools; however, I would say that it was my ISB application that they did their strongest work on. Since many MBA aspirants come to Experts’ Global, for help applying to ISB, they have made it a point to develop a strong understanding of its admissions process and requirements. In fact, they have separate consulting service, specifically, for ISB. I found that Experts’ Global’s understanding of ISB was unparalleled. They knew exactly what the ISB timeline would look like and what the application requirements, including the exact essay questions, would be. They also knew exactly what type of content and presentation would work best on the ISB essays. ISB only asks for two, relatively short essays, so it can be difficult to incorporate the strongest content from one’s profile, while adhering to the parameters of the essay questions. My writing team helped me identify the themes that could unite my professional history, my reasons for pursuing an MBA, and my future plans, to form a “story” that would show the committee who I was, as a person and candidate. This type of narrative is important, if you want your essays and application to stand out from the crowd. My team was even able to give me some great advice on what type of student activities would be best for me to pursue, at ISB. As I mentioned earlier, my admission team understood the ISB application process and timeline, very well. As such, they had a very well-defined approach to managing them. They broke the entire application process into a series of, as they called them, “milestones”. Some milestones were to be achieved by me and others by my team. Essentially, they broke what seemed like a very complicated process, into its constituent parts. Since the process had me take everything one step at a time, I did not get overwhelmed and had a clear sense of my progress. My team had excellent communication skills. Whenever I contacted them with a query or a request, they replied to me, very promptly. They also made sure to keep me in the loop, on the progress of my applications. The quality of the applications that Experts’ Global helped me prepare was excellent and I handily received an interview call from ISB. Of course, the interview is still a challenge, especially at ISB, which interviews five applicants for every seat. Thankfully Experts’ Global also has a stellar interview prep, which ensured that I was able to ace the interview and secure admission to ISB.

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I took up Experts’ Global’s MBA admission consulting, for a number of schools. I found their handling of my applications to be highly professional and effective. With their help, I was able to secure interview calls from Oxford, Cambridge, Tepper, ISB, and IESE. Of course, I was well aware that receiving an interview call is just the beginning. Experts’ Global had made it quite clear, to me, that my interview performance would be what determined, whether or not I received an admit. This was especially true for ISB, which interviews five applicants for each seat. Thankfully Experts’ Global offers “end to end admission consulting”, which includes interview prep. This prep is very well thought out. It includes excellent instructional material, and both theoretical and practical testing. The instructional material is fifteen video lectures on all of the important MBA admission interview topics. They cover what type of content you need to include in your answers, what type of questions you can expect, how to present yourself, appropriate body language, etc. They also provided extremely valuable guidance on how to handle complicated situations, for example, if I was asked a question I did not know. After going through the videos, I had to fill out a questionnaire, to see just how well I had absorbed the information. This questionnaire consisted of the thirty most commonly asked MBA interview questions. Finally, I went through a series of mock interviews, arranged by my interview mentor. My mentor was quite experienced and knew how to conduct the interviews to address the areas that I needed to work on. She determined these areas, based on my responses on the questionnaire. After every mock interview, we had an in-depth feedback session. These sessions were very helpful in understanding my mistakes and I found my performance improving with each one. By the time my interviews came around, I was more than ready. I managed to secure admits to Cambridge, Darden and ISB,

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I am very pleased with how Experts’ Global conducts their MBA admission consulting. My admission team was perfectly professional, courteous, and efficient. I never had any issue contacting Experts’ Global, whenever I had any requests or concerns. My team always made sure to get back to me as soon as possible and keep me in the loop, on the progress of my applications. I found the firm to have an in-depth knowledge of the particulars of many MBA programs and their admission processes. This was of great help to me, when I was shortlisting schools to apply to, as researching factors such as, convenient geography, scholarship availability, and budget would have been quite difficult on my own. What impressed me the most was the essay writing. My writing team had a very fine understanding of the qualities of an effective MBA application essay. They understood exactly how each essay question should be answered and exactly how to incorporate the strongest content from my profile, into the essays. Most importantly, the writing team understood the value of theme building. The worked with me to pinpoint the common themes that could bring my professional history, my desire for an MBA, and my future plans together, to form a narrative that would illustrate who I was, as a person and candidate. Such themes and narratives are crucial. Without a strong narrative, admission essays, especially statements of purpose, tend to read like extensions of the resume. The narrative is what makes an essay stand out from the crowd. Another thing that I really appreciated was that Experts’ Global actually offers guidance on all portions of the admissions process. They were, of course, more than capable of doing so, as well. It was clear that my admissions team had worked with MBA aspirants of all kinds and were had experience dealing with every type of challenge imaginable. In this area too, they made sure to keep me in the loop. Experts’ Global has a lot of resources for helping its applicants understand the admissions process. Primarily, they have a series of videos that that cover topics such as, essay writing, resume writing, securing letters of recommendation etc. This is quite a unique aspect of Experts’ Global’s consultancy, not many others put this much effort into making sure that their applicants are well-informed. With Experts’ Global’s help, I was able to put together excellent applications that got me interview calls from Oxford, Tepper, ISB, Cambridge, Darden, and IESE. Furthermore, Experts’ Global’s interview prep (which I will write about at length later) helped me secure admission to three of these schools, Cambridge, Darden and ISB. I am very happy to say that I will be studying at Cambridge and I owe a great deal of thanks to Experts’ Global, for this opportunity.

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Expert's Global made the entire application process for ISB extremely comfortable and smooth. Since they have been seamlessly doing this for the past many years, they have an indepth understanding of how business school application should be presented in the most effective manner.

The entire process was super smooth and organised - making it extremely easy to keep track of and take care of intricacies that need to be addressed for a B-school application. The consultants are easily approachable and help bring out the best in the applicant. One unique feature that Experts Global has introduced is the video presentations that help break down business application into modules and give a good perspective to the applicant.

Overall, it was a great experience working with Experts Gloabl and I wholeheartedly recommend their services to applicants for global B-schools especially ISB.

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Experts Global team have been a mentor to me throughout my MBA journey.

First of all, before the enrollment process, they gave me good feedback on my application, highlighting my strengths and weakness and helping me with the school selection. After that, the enrollment process was very smooth and had a lot of flexibility based on the number of schools I had applied.

After the enrollment, they shared a set of videos to help me with the application process. The videos were very objective and helped me tackle the various stages of the application process.

This was followed by the brainstorming which was done by Ms Akanksha. I really liked the fact that she was very approachable and could answer queries from both a professional and personal perspective. She was very honest and helpful in her approach.

I worked on my Essays with Ms Ranita. Ranita is excellent with translating thoughts to words. I always felt that I needed a couple of iterations before I hit the sweet spot with my essays. Ranita encouraged this and always maintained that there should be nothing in the essays which I am not comfortable with. Again, I really liked her honest approach and transparent feedback.

I worked on my interviews with Aanchal. Aanchal helped me identify my weaknesses and went over multiple mocks with me to improve my skills.

Lastly, Priyanka was always there in case I was stuck and needed any help from the team. She is pro-active and responsive, which helped me multiple times in situations when I needed something urgent.

Overall, it was a great experience. I felt that we were working together as a team to achieve a common goal. My mentors always had my back and I could always count on them on advice.

The MBA journey is long and daunting. You have to select the schools, work on your essays, finish your applications and then finally crack the interview. During all stages, my mentors were there for me. They helped me secure admission to my dream school and even after my admission, they helped me with my personal queries, which I believe speaks volume about their work.

My advice to my fellow peers would be to trust the process, introspect and trust the experts :).

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As with the rest of my MBA application process, I felt a little bit lost when it came to my interviews. Even though I had some understanding of how to conduct myself in an interview I was sure that there would be some type of nuance that I was missing. I had taken Experts’ Global’s guidance on my application process, up to that point and I knew that I would definitely benefit from further guidance. Experts’ Global’s interview preparation turned out to be excellent, just like the rest of their admission consultancy. It is a very clear and methodical process that gave me all the information I needed and helped me build practical skills, as well. First,I watched fifteen video lectures that covered all of the information I needed to know. I mean the videos covered what type of answers I should give, proper body language, etc. I was especially glad to see that they also covered specific questions, such as what to do if I did not know how to answer a question. After I had thoroughly gone through the videos, I filled out a questionnaire that covered the thirty most common MBA interview questions. Finally, my interview mentor held a series of mock interviews. She based the mocks on my answers to the questionnaire, to address my blind spots. This approach really worked, I had three mocks, (with a feedback session after each one) and I improved with every one of them. I really gained a lot of confidence, too, and was quite sure of myself going into the interviews. When I interviewedwith Sauder, Questrom, and Smith, I could tell that I had cleared the interview and would be getting the admit. I was right by the way. I ended up with four admits, with scholarship; Carlson-USD 36,600 per year, Smith-95% scholarship, Purdue-USD 20,000 per year, and Sauder USD 17500 per year. I also got two admits, without a scholarship, to Questrom and Schulich. Experts’ Global’s interview preparation was beyond excellent. I cannot begin to describe how much it taught me and helped me.

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From experience, I can tell you that MBA applications are no joke. The entire process of applying to MBA programs is very complex, at every stage there are so many factors to consider. Even before you can start looking at the admission requirements, there are several intense steps. I was, frankly, overwhelmed and the more I learned about what type of applications I would need to put together, to get a seat at a prominent business school, the more lost I felt.
Thankfully, I was able to find an admissions consulting firm, as fine as Experts’ Global! The guidance I received at this firm, completely, changed how I looked at the admissions process. They managed to make everything crystal clear and guided me through the whole thing so well that I never had to worry about anything. Experts’ Global’s admission consultancy is end to end. That means that they cover the entire process, from start to finish. From what I have seen, it is not very common to find MBA admission consultants that offer this kind of coverage.
The admission team that I worked with was very knowledgeable, professional, and helpful. They had a great deal of information about MBA programs from all over the world, were always very fast in replying to my queries and were very accommodating of any additional requests I had. They also used a set of video lectures to explain how the whole process would work, before we really got started. This really helped me understand the admissions process and gain some confidence. I also had a very helpful conversation with one of my mentors that helped me to further understand and put my mind at ease.
The first big help that Experts’ Global gave me was in my profile analysis and school shortlisting. I had no idea how to judge my own profile and the countless MBAprograms, out there, but Experts’ Global was able to perfectly understand my background and career goals and help me pick out a set of schools that would be right for me. They also helped me understand how these schools should then be narrowed down, considering factors like geography, scholarships, etc. This step was, probably, what was overwhelming me the most. There were so many factors to consider and so many potential schools to apply to that I did not know how to start!One aspect of the team that was a real help here was the fact that they were very straightforward and honest with me.Once this first step was cleared the rest became much easier. I started out with a list of four schools to apply to and as my confidence grew, I increased that number to eight and then nine.
The other area in which Experts’ Global was a tremendous help was in writing the application material. They prepared an extremely crisp admission resume, for me, and their essay work was beyond excellent. I went into the process not really knowing how good MBA application essays are written and was actually a little surprised by what Experts’ Global told me is the proper approach. They told me that best essays are the ones that have a “story” element to them, not just facts. How my writing team approached this was to look for common themes in my background, my current MBA pursuit and my long and short career goals and use those to bring all three together into a sort of overarching narrative. The essays they wrote, using this narrative, were better than anything I could have written in ten years.
Beyond this, managing the applications themselves was very easy, using the milestone approach. Any doubts I had about the applications were answered well in time and I was able to finish the application, without the deadlines becoming a concern.
A third part of the process that Experts’ Global was very helpful with was interview prep. As I said earlier, they offer guidance on every part of the admission process, this includes the interviews. I took up three mock interviews and went through the interview prep videos that Experts’ Global provided, to prepare for my real ones at Questrom, Maryland Smith, Fisher, Carlson, Purdue, Sauder, and Krannert. This training was very helpful and by the time of my interview at Sauder, Questrom, and Smith I was completely confident that I would clear them and I did! I secured admits to four schools, all with scholarships; Carlson-USD 36,600 per year, Smith-95% scholarship, Purdue-USD 20,000 per year, and Sauder USD 17500 per year. I also got 2 other admits to Questrom and Schulich.
Without Experts’ Global, I would have been completely lost. I cannot see myself succeeding, as I did, without their help. I can’t express in words how much they helped me!

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Confession #1: Not too many people have a sense of purpose in life and I was no different. An economics degree and three promotions later, I decided to take the ‘next logical step’. In the search of self-discovery, I deliberately applied to a lot of b-schools. I mean, a lot. Was it worth it? For me, it was. The Experts’ admission process forced me to reflect upon my past, including accomplishments and setbacks. Why an MBA? Why now? My career goal? What am I good at? All these questions helped me create a rock-solid platform, from where I could launch myself with more confidence.

Please note that the admission process is exhausting and expensive. You need to have a balance between your dream, practical and safe schools. Experts’ Global brilliantly tackled the challenge that was tripping me up, understanding which schools to apply to. They helped me select a list of 11 programs that would be best for furthering them, keeping in mind factors like budget, scholarship opportunities, post-MBA goals etc. Later, I added two more programs to this list. My mentor made sure that I had a good understanding of my profile’s strengths and weaknesses.

Confession #2: I do not have a score of 700 or above.

Having said that, my mentor encouraged me to dig deep into my profile and identify things that make me unique. A successful MBA candidate is more than his or her GMAT score. It’s the overall package that helps you get selected since one weak point can be compensated by other strong aspects of your profile. Experts’ helped me understand that, as they took me through the process. They knew exactly how to write essays with strong themes that could really convey my “story”, as a professional and an applicant. It really helped me gain a lot of confidence in my chances for admits. They divided the process into a series of milestones, some of which were my responsibility and some theirs. Again, I found these practices to be very good for maintaining maximum clarity.

Confession #3: Results matter.

With help from Experts’, I received interview calls from Ivey, Notre Dame, ISB, HKU, Imperial, Questrom, and Simon. Out of these I was waitlisted at ISB and received admits to Questrom, Simon (with 50% scholarship), and Notre Dame (with a $70K scholarship)

In conclusion, I would wholeheartedly recommend Experts’ Global for their MBA admission package. It’s a bargain when compared to other admission consultants. The team was really easy to keep in touch with, they responded to all of my queries promptly and made sure to share information amongst themselves so that everyone was updated regarding my status.

PS: Be ready to do the heavy lifting. Unless you have absolute clarity of your career / post-MBA goals, I would suggest to apply to more number of schools and get a clarity during the admission process (if you can shell out some more $$$). To avoid fatigue, the applications may be divided among different rounds of different schools.

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