I worked with Aringo only in a partial manner, after I turned to them late and there was no room for me. I was very sorry that I did not work with them fully, as it would probably have helped me get accepted to other places and saved me a lot of heart palpitations. Given this, I think that if I woul...

There IS a sort of grey area with GMAT scores. But as we know, this is not a science. A great score is always advantageous but the adcoms do not stop looking when they see a below average score. They do always go over the whole application.

You can probably explain it in the optional essay, which is a good place to talk about any special circumstances in your application.

My experience is that I got accepted to the school and program I wanted with the extensive help of a good consulting firm and a great personal consultant. English is not my mother-tongue and I could not have done the essays without their help. It's hard to understand just how instrumental they can b...

I worked with Aringo only in a partial manner, after I turned to them late and there was no room for me. I was very sorry that I did not work with them fully, as it would probably have helped me get accepted to other places and saved me a lot of heart palpitations. Given this, I think that if I woul...

Although an acceptance with a GMAT below 600 or 620 is a rare occurrence at all the top schools nevertheless it does happen regularly. There will always be a small number of applicants, usually from outside the USA, who have extraordinary life stories that show intelligence and tenacity but who have...

I'd say send in your scores immediately - it won't hurt you. Generally speaking, it's not easy to predict a GMAT score and most of us are somewhat surprised for the better or worse. Sometimes you just know you did a lousy job of it but the schools will have access to all your records, as you know. A...

Yes, I do agree that any preparation for this will be really helpful. Another thing I wanted to mention was that I had to try 3 different PC's before I finally got one in which the VIdeo Essay Software worked with the audio. So try out the Video Essay part in advance, don't leave it till the last m...