The Application Process

Hi,
It is often said that one should learn from his/her mistakes.I once committed one mistake and here I want to warn others from committing the same mistake.
After taking GMAT, while I was inquiring about various MBA programs, I happened to take some advice from one of the MBA consulting firms known as throughMBA. Siddhartha or Sid, called me up and spent a whole lot of time trying to convince me how my profile is good enough for getting into a decent B school. Seeing my skepticism, he made me write a hell lot of details and then responded(in just a day) saying that some experts did a comprehensive evaluation of my profile and that I can make easily in one of the top 15 b schools. He even presented me a list of schools to which if I apply through throughMBA, I can make to any(if not many) of them.
Since I was not too sure of my candidacy, this sort of revelation took me by a pleasant surprise and I immediately signed up. He promised me a lot of services.
When the application process started, I got to see his and throughMBA's true colours. Siddhartha/Sid, who used to be such a nicely behaved guy originally, turned out to be a stubbornish snob at the end. To every feedback on essays or LOR's, he would call back and have loud and unpleasant conversation all filled with mockery and condescension about me.
Thanks for beatthegmat, I connected with somebody who was himself using their services and he had the same qualms. By this time we had realised that we have got into some trap and signing up with nuts like throughMBA was the mistake that we did.
One of the things that we came to know about throughMBA was that, they were sending the same essays to both of us for the schools that we were both applying to. When we called up Sid asking about it, he transferred the blame to both of us saying that we should not have used the essays provided by him but have make some tweaks ourselves. Eventually we ended up getting no offer from that school.
Sid/Siddhartha and throughMBA is now not contactable.
I make this post just to inform everyone that please make a thorough investigation before signing up with any consultant because its not just your money which is at stake.