These organizations assist MBA applicants with the various phases of their application process - from GMAT test preparation to essay writing and application strategy. Services and fees vary greatly between advisors and MBA applicants are advised to choose admission consultants that are best suited for their experience and career goals.

 

NORTH AMERICA

Created by standardized testing experts at Yale and Stanford, the Veritas Prep GMAT program consists of 42 hours of instruction – twice the course length offered by its largest competitors. Working with only the finest instructors, all of whom have scored in the 99th percentile on the exam, Veritas Prep students learn proven techniques to deconstruct the GMAT and approach it with both confidence and skill. Veritas Prep conducts in-person GMAT programs in over 70 cities worldwide and live online. Veritas Prep also offers an elite MBA admissions consulting service. The Veritas Prep team consists of Consultants from all the best MBA programs. Every Veritas Prep Head Consultant has formerly served as an admissions representative at a top MBA program -- as an admissions officer, as an application reader, or as an interviewer. To learn more, visit www.veritasprep.com or call 800.925.PREP.

 

Manhattan GMAT is the world's largest GMAT-exclusive prep provider. Our mission is to provide students with a blend of the academic and test-taking skills essential for success on the exam. Courses are targeted toward students with ambitious score goals, as Instructors are required to score in the 99th percentile (750+) on the Official GMAT. For more information, visit www.manhattangmat.com or contact the Student Services Team at 800-576-4628. Use promo code MBAT07 when enrolling on the phone or online to get a $100 discount off of complete courses.

 

The Princeton Review is a pioneer in the world of education. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers private tutoring and classroom and online test preparation to help students improve their scores in college and graduate school admissions tests. The company's free website helps university-bound students research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education.  The Princeton Review also provides school districts with college and career resources for both students and guidance counselors.  The Princeton Review authors more than 200 print and software titles on test preparation, college and graduate school selection and admissions, and related topics.  To learn more visit the website at www.PrincetonReview.com or call 800-2Review.

Founded in 1993, Accepted provides a web site rich with free resources and premier admissions consulting, essay editing, and interview preparation. On the Accepted.com web site you can find free email courses, admissions forums, almost 200 chat transcripts (most with admissions directors), tip articles, a newsletter, a blog, and the MBA Interview Feedback Database. In addition, our experienced, professional staff comprised of professional, prize-winning authors, former admissions staff at top b-schools, and seasoned admissions experts are available to help, critique, and mentor you through the grueling MBA admissions process. Located in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, Accepted is an international consultancy with clients around the world.

Clear Admit's expert counselors offer comprehensive and highly tailored guidance to academic candidates through all stages of the MBA application process. Services include assessment and positioning assistance, essay editing/strategic feedback, recommendation writer coaching, mock interviewing, and school selection advice. B-school news and admissions advice at blog.clearadmit.com

Maxx Associates was founded in 1976 to provide application counseling in the complex and competitive world of graduate business school admission. A boutique educational consultancy, Maxx Associates creates a personal partnership with each of its clients. Advising on US and
international program selection, Maxx Associates guides clients in all areas of the application process, including pre-planning, application strategy, essay editing, resumes, recommendations, interview preparation, reapplication, and wait list. A pioneer in the field of educational consulting, Maxx Associates has helped clients from more than 30 countries achieve their educational goals.

EXPARTUS is a leading admissions and personal branding consulting company that provides expert application advice to candidates applying to top MBA and executive MBA programs. EXPARTUS was founded by Obinna Isiadinso (a Harvard MBA) and Chioma Isiadinso, a former Harvard Business School Admissions Board Member with eleven years of Admissions experience. EXPARTUS brings together a unique and dedicated team of admissions experts who provide clients with unparalleled insight and knowledge of the entire admission process. Chioma Isiadinso is the author of The Best Business Schools’ Admissions Secrets

Admit Advantage is an educational consulting firm dedicated to assisting clients in unlocking their full potential as MBA applicants.  Admit Advantage helps simplify and organize the MBA admissions process by aiding in the construction of compelling applications that promote client strengths (and minimize weaknesses), highlight relevant experiences, and clearly outline professional goals and objectives that will enable a client to enhance their opportunities for admission to schools of all levels.  Members of the Admit Advantage team are graduates of top MBA and college programs including Wharton, Brown, and Harvard, and have had tremendous success guiding applicants through the MBA admissions process.www.admitadvantage.com

MBAPrepAdvantage is an MBA admissions consulting company that helps you build your MBA application package from the very criteria that MBA admissions committees will use to evaluate your candidacy. Our MBA admissions consulting team is led by Alex Duke, a former MBA Admissions Director with more than 20 years experience who has evaluated approximately 8,000 MBA applications and 20,000 MBA essays, and Michael Cohan, a winner of the prestigious Dean's Fellowship at the UCLA Anderson School of Business awarded to prospective candidates with outstanding applications. Together, our team forms considerable functional, industry, and management experience with an MBA Admission's Director’s perspective to maximize your chance of admittance into your top business school.

 

Since 2001, Stacy Blackman Consulting has helped clients gain admission to every top business school in the world. The company's approach, based on developing and implementing a winning marketing strategy, makes the application process less stressful and more successful. Stacy Blackman Consulting's dedicated MBA consultant team boasts a unique combination of admissions experience, marketing savvy and writing skills. This, combined with extensive company resources, has led to an exceptional client success rate.  Visit the Stacy Blackman Consulting Blog for free admissions information, updated several times a week.

 

 

Manhattan Review is the only training provider with 10 years of history helping you succeed before, during and after your MBA studies. With locations around the world, Manhattan Review offers the most time-efficient top-quality GMAT preparation, MBA Admissions consulting and pre-MBA training boot camps. Its founder, GMAT Instructors and managers are Ivy League PhD’s & MBAs with 99th percentile test scores in addition to their in-depth industry expertise and teaching experience.  It features a full range of GMAT courses (long, crash and intensive), a Free MBA candidacy Evaluation, proprietary Turbocharge Your GMAT books, popular MBA and GMAT blog, proven student success and unlimited forum support.

 

AdmissionsConsultants, Inc., based outside of Washington, D.C., has since 1996 helped thousands of clients gain admission to highly selective MBA programs. The company's global network of seasoned consultants helps clients develop best strategies for admissions: identifying "best-fit" schools, developing applications and essays, and preparing for interviews. AdmissionsConsultants' sole focus is on helping clients successfully enter programs that will help them meet career, life, and educational goals.

 

Oxford Seminars offers comprehensive GMAT test preparation courses on university campuses in cities across Canada including Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax. Our 30-hour and 48-hour courses include: an in-depth review of all GMAT math concepts; critical reading of verbal reasoning passages; effective diagramming techniques; practical math problem solving strategies; drawing proper inferences and deductions; synthesizing concepts and ideas; learning to recognize wrong answer types; writing clear and concise essays and using effective structure; and working strategically under strict timing conditions. All Oxford Seminars GMAT courses include full simulated practice exams, a comprehensive understanding of the entire MBA school application process, and our free repeat policy. For more information about Oxford Seminars and the thousands of satisfied students who have already attended our courses, please visit www.oxfordseminars.ca or call 1-800-269-6719.

 

You're smart, you're interesting, you're experienced, and you're motivated to get your MBA and accelerate your career. But what stands between you and acceptance to the business school of your choice? About 30 pages of text—text that thousands of other qualified applicants will also be submitting. What you need on your side is mbaMission, a team of published, professional writers with MBA experience, ready to help you highlight your strengths and craft your message so that Admissions Committees take notice. Through mbaMission's "Complete Start to Finish" package, your dedicated consultant will work closely with you on every step of the application process, reducing your stress and increasing your chances of success. At mbaMission, our mission is your mission: getting you into the MBA program of your choice.

 

 

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ASIA

China

BeBeyond offers the best quality reports on, guidance to and insights into foreign universities, school applications, other studying abroad and working abroad issues, western culture and new, progressive life attitudes and Chinese life experiences around the world.

Chase Dream

ChaseDream features a  series of distinguished programs which have proven to offer its members great facilities in communicating, learning and sharing information in all aspects related to business school application, life in business school and career choices for MBAs.

MBAtouchdown.com has a mission to help highly motivated Chinese applicants get accepted to top MBA programs and succeed in the global economy. Our training program known as the “Boot Camp” achieved outstanding results with 94% of Boot Camp members getting accepted and 62% receiving scholarships, among them, 60% were full scholarships.

CPN is a perfect platform to achieve personal and professional growth and success. We help you: get into the world's top schools and universities; land your dream job at the world's top companies; capitalize on your expertise; expand your personal network and meet many great people.

 

India

"Manya Education, is the Indian partner of The Princeton Review, the world's leading test preparation & admissions services company. We provide Indian students test preparation for the GMAT, GRE, SAT, TOEFL & IELTS through our classroom centres in Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai & Kolkata. We also provide comprehensive & class leading admissions counseling services helping study abroad applicants navigate the complex university admissions process.  We specialise in accurate profiling (university selection), intensive essay editing, resume building, interview preparation & visa counseling.

Korea

Founded in 1993, Accepted provides a web site rich with free resources and premier admissions consulting, essay editing, and interview preparation. On the Accepted.com web site you can find free email courses, admissions forums, almost 200 chat transcripts (most with admissions directors), tip articles, a newsletter, a blog, and the MBA Interview Feedback Database. In addition, our experienced, professional staff comprised of professional, prize-winning authors, former admissions staff at top b-schools, and seasoned admissions experts are available to help, critique, and mentor you through the grueling MBA admissions process. Located in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, Accepted is an international consultancy with clients around the world

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EUROPE

Clear Admit's expert counselors offer comprehensive and highly tailored guidance to academic candidates through all stages of the MBA application process. Services include assessment and positioning assistance, essay editing/strategic feedback, recommendation writer coaching, mock interviewing, and school selection advice. B-school news and admissions advice at blog.clearadmit.com

Founded in 1993, Accepted provides a web site rich with free resources and premier admissions consulting, essay editing, and interview preparation. On the Accepted.com web site you can find free email courses, admissions forums, almost 200 chat transcripts (most with admissions directors), tip articles, a newsletter, a blog, and the MBA Interview Feedback Database. In addition, our experienced, professional staff comprised of professional, prize-winning authors, former admissions staff at top b-schools, and seasoned admissions experts are available to help, critique, and mentor you through the grueling MBA admissions process. Located in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, Accepted is an international consultancy with clients around the world

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LATIN AMERICA

Mexico

Las Velez
The Velez have designed and proven effective teaching systems that make learning easier and that develop intellectual skills and study methodology as well as verbal and math abilities.

The MBA Image
The MBA Image offers guidance and editing services to the MBA candidate and young professionals worldwide market for their global career advancement needs.

The Princeton Review is a pioneer in the world of education. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers private tutoring and classroom and online test preparation to help students improve their scores in college and graduate school admissions tests. The company's free website helps university-bound students research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education.  The Princeton Review also provides school districts with college and career resources for both students and guidance counselors.  The Princeton Review authors more than 200 print and software titles on test preparation, college and graduate school selection and admissions, and related topics.  To learn more visit the website at www.PrincetonReview.com or call 800-2Review.

Brazil

 

For 17 years, MBA Empresarial has advised candidates in all the stages of the MBA application process. Besides helping to identify the international MBA programs suited to their needs and preparing for the admission process, we also provide individual coaching on the best strategies to compete for the best schools. Until 2006, we rendered services to 925 Brazilians applying to MBA Programs abroad, with a success rate superior to 92%.

 

Philadelphia Consulting is an educational consulting service specialized in advising students to study abroad and in training them to successfully take admission tests such as TOEFL, SAT, GRE, and GMAT. Our methodology consists of instruction and coaching to guide the students throughout their studies, emphasizing discipline and commitment to the learning process in order to maximize their abilities.

 

The Point Academic has been providing service excellence in test preparation and academic consulting for twenty years. In today’s highly competitive academic environment, we offer both qualified   instruction and expertise for those who want to apply to the most competitive MBA programs throughout the world. Our goal is to help students achieve an outstanding GMAT test score and find the program that best suits their needs.

FK Partners is focused on GMAT and TOEFL preparatory courses and Admissions Consulting for specialization degrees such as the MBA. Through our partnership with Kaplan (the company that has offered world class GMAT preparation for over 60 years), FK Partners is proud to provide Brazilian MBA candidates with Kaplan's GMAT and TOEFL methodology and offers MBA candidates the opportunity to prepare for the GMAT/TOEFL and admissions applications. All FK Partners instructors are qualified academics, lecturers and professionals with in-depth knowledge and experience in Test Preparation and Admissions Consulting

 

Business Schools that travel with The MBA Tour neither endorse nor discourage the use of admission consultants. The MBA Tour cautions MBA applicants not to misrepresent themselves in resumes, interviews or essays during the application process.