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Who We Are We're a very small group of writers, editors, teachers and MBAs who have worked with business school applicants for the last eight years. A few of us are or were also GMAT instructors; our editing work grew out of our classroom experiences. Too often we watched our students improve their GMAT scores significantly during class only to blow it when they applied to schools by writing bad essays. We worked for free our first year just to see if an improved story and better writing would help our students get into school. All of the students we worked with that first year were admitted to top-25 programs, and nearly all have been admitted since. We work with relatively few applicants each year because our group is very small and our standards are very high. We are not an essay mill. Why Go On the Web? We have always been popular in Los Angeles and didn't really need to expand, but we went on the Web six years ago because of the proliferation of so-called experts who claimed to know something about business school admissions, the GMAT exam and the application essays. After reading absurd recommendations from some of these "experts" (such as studying calculus to improve your GMAT score) and noting the appalling writing skills of people who claim to be editors, we decided to post a site for MBA applicants. We hope you'll benefit from the information posted here even if we aren't able to work with you. The Applicants We Work With The people we work with come from a wide range of backgrounds. Many are consultants, asset managers or auditors with top firms. Others come from small companies and do unique jobs. We have even had professional athletes, actors, runway models and our share of disenchanted physicians and lawyers. But most of the people we work with are not superstar candidates. They score between 650 and 750 on the GMAT, work typical pre-MBA jobs, and have had no special advantages in life. Contrary to the image that some magazines project, student bodies at elite business schools are comprised almost entirely of these people. Don't be intimidated by the students profiled in the magazines. They are gross misrepresentations of reality. If you can put up a respectable GMAT score and then tell a convincing story in your application essays, you'll have a realistic chance of being admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton or any of the other top business schools. If your GMAT score is below 600, however, statistics show that you have less than a 5 percent chance of being admitted to a top MBA program. Given the long odds, we advise applicants who score below 600 to retake the GMAT and put the application essays off until they get a score that schools will accept. What We Do The most important thing we do is develop a strategy that fits both your background and the needs of a typical admissions officer. Great applicants are regularly rejected, not because they aren't qualified, but because they use the wrong pitch. It's easy to make that mistake when you don't know what the admissions people are looking for. Together we worked out a strategy that makes sense given your background. We also make sure that your stated career goals and the experience you highlight in your applications fit the needs of the admissions people. It's important that your story hold together and appeal to the admissions staff. I would much rather see an applicant who says the right things in his essays, even if he isn't a particularly good writer, than an applicant who writes well but doesn't understand what to write about. It's the guy with the right strategy who is going to be admitted. When We Work We're currently closed for the season and will start working with applicants again in the summer. Feel free to check back then. In the meantime, study the GMAT! It's the best thing you can do to improve your chances of being admitted to a top MBA program.
John Evans
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