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760 booyah! EMPOWERgmat FTW

by quinngarner » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:14 am
I took the GMAT in 2012 and got a 660 after a few months of practice with OG materials and Manhattan CATs. I retook again in 2014 after three months of EMPOWERgmat and got a 760. The program rocks. Rich is awesome. Do it!
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by [email protected] » Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:48 pm
Hi Quinn,

It's been some time since we last heard from you. Your full story (and especially the School that you were accepted to) are far more exciting than you've described in your brief post. While it's not my place to share that information, perhaps you'd care to describe everything in a bit more detail?

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by quinngarner » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:03 am
Oh yeah, thanks for catching that Rich. Forgot to mention that I got into Stanford GSB, which of course I'm suuuuuper excited about!

To provide a bit more context on my experience. I really wasn't seeing improvement by just studying OG materials on my own and taking Manhattan GMAT CATs. I had hit a wall. The structure of the EMPOWERgmat program was very helpful. But even more helpful than the structure was the content. I think what really helped me was all the strategy and psychological coaching in addition to the nuts and bolts of the various question types. I wasn't getting that anywhere else. It really helped me to focus on areas that made a difference to my score. And to get myself mentally ready for the big day. And the big day went extremely well, just like Rich said it would if I just followed the principles taught in the course. Still a bit shocked at how well it went, months later. But I just trusted that by sticking to the fundamentals of the course things would work out. I stayed calm and assassinated.

And now I'm going to Stanford! Yeeeeaaahhhhh!