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Shawn Berry
Website
Q. Why should I take 30-60 minutes to read your website?
A. Because your MBA and your 30 year post-MBA career lie in the balance.
Attending a highly ranked MBA program can dramatically improve your career and your life.
On this website, I've compiled the facts on what you need to do to attend a highly ranked MBA
program and maximize your MBA profit. But remember, maximizing your MBA profit isn't for the lazy or non-strategic.
Q. Your website is very thorough. How important are the
footnotes? Will there be a quiz later?
A. Yes, my website is thorough. I want you to have the facts that you need in order to make wise
decisions that maximize your MBA profit. Without these facts -- that all but the Top 30
BusinessWeek ranked MBA programs are a poor investment, that if you don't score a 650 on the GMAT
you have a devastatingly low 1-2% probability of being accepted to a Top 15 MBA program, that scoring 650,
700, or 750 radically improves your probability of being accepted, that many people claiming GMAT
expertise actually miss 20% of GMAT questions, etc. -- you don't know what you need to know to
maximize your MBA profit.
By and large, people want more hard information about what an MBA can do for them. I'm proud that
I had the time and the wherewithal to put this information together for people.
If you prefer, you can read this website without reading one footnote. No, there ain't no quiz.
Q. Why are there so many footnotes? When you teach, do you provide this much information?
A. Good question. I have different goals on this website than I do
in class.
When I teach, I provide my clients only what they need to know. My simple and
straightforward teaching style helps my clients apply and execute their GMAT knowledge under
real GMAT conditions.
In contrast, there are so many footnotes because some people really want to know the fine details of a
specific topic and they want it substantiated. By providing these footnotes (and I consider
all the footnotes on this website optional), I answer these people's questions - possibly
your questions - and save many hours answering email. Frankly, I prefer the
simplicity approach that I use in class, but it wouldn't work here on this website.
Unique Aspects
Q. In teaching the GMAT, what do you do that's unique or special?
A. While the competition relies on tricks that sometimes work and sometime don't, I teach you the
math, grammar, or whatever else you need to excel at the GMAT. Then, I make sure that you can
apply and execute your GMAT knowledge under real test conditions.
Q. You say that you are the World's Foremost GMAT Expert. Can you substantiate that?
A. Sure, I am the only person who has twice earned a perfect 800 on the
GMAT-CAT. As such, I am uniquely qualified to help you with any GMAT question that you miss, guess
at, or spend too much time on. But not only do I know the GMAT, I excel at teaching my clients the
GMAT. I know how to transfer my GMAT knowledge and I make sure that my clients can apply and execute
this GMAT knowledge under real test conditions. The result is that my clients earn their
personal-best GMAT scores. I've helped 50 people ascend from, on average, 60th percentile to 90th
percentile. And I've helped 26 people exceed 700. Combined, I know the GMAT inside-out and I can
teach it to you better than anybody else in the world.
Q. Aren't you like everybody else out there who helps people with the GMAT?
A. No. In addition to being uniquely qualified to teach you the GMAT (as described on Shawn Berry's
GMAT Service), I place my clients' interests before mine. I know that I'll prosper only if I help my
clients earn their personal-best GMAT scores and maximize their MBA profit.
As proof that I place my clients' interests first, I don't mindlessly promote all MBA programs so that
more people may take the GMAT. Instead, I only recommend attending the top 5-10% of MBA programs (the
Top 15 and the Next 15). Further, I require that my clients study with me in person, have at least 24
days to prepare, and devote 120 hours to studying. By enforcing these strict requirements - each of
which benefits my clients' GMAT scores - I bypass tens of thousands of dollars.
Q. You mention that you are a GMAT teacher while you describe other people as tutors. What's the
difference?
A. A teacher teaches his own methods, as I do. A tutor reinforces other people's methods. You can see
for yourself, in our first class, that I use unique GMAT methods that make the GMAT straightforward.
In fact, my methods work for all GMAT problems (none of my methods sometimes work and sometimes don't).
With my assistance, there is nothing to hold you back from earning your personal-best GMAT score.
Q. What special results do you deliver for you clients?
A. I help my clients earn their personal-best GMAT scores, which are typically 50 to 150 points higher
than they were able to earn through any other preparation method. Read my clients' References.
Competition
Q. I've studied with Kaplan and I haven't been successful? Why should I switch and study with you?
A. If you want different results, then you need to do something differently. Clearly, Kaplan's
methods and teachers did not work for you, as they have not worked for many of my clients. These clients of mine
will tell you that I can help you improve your GMAT score 50 to 150 points more than you can with any other
preparation method.
Q. Why is person with a 90th percentile (680) or 95th percentile (710) GMAT score not an expert? The 100 points between
the competition's GMAT scores and your GMAT score don't seem like that huge of a difference.
A. Great question. Let's see what the difference really is.
Remember that my average client starts with a 570 GMAT score, with 230 points room for improvement. Kaplan and Princeton
Review regularly hire people with 680 GMAT scores, 120 points room for improvement. Therefore these Kaplan instructors
can only help my clients with 1/2 the material they miss, guess at, or spend too much time on - before these clients have
had any GMAT instruction! Once my clients have taken half my GMAT classes, they have improved their scores to the point
where a Kaplan or Princeton Review teacher could only help my clients with 1/3 of the material they miss, guess at, or
spend too much time on. Surely you wouldn't pay for a car that only worked 1/3 or 1/2 of the time - it would be worthless
- so don't pay for a GMAT service that only works 1/3 or 1/2 of the time.
Now, let me be kind and suppose that a competing GMAT instructor can earn a 720 GMAT - the highest GMAT score of any person
that I have ever seen substantiated by a competitor. This person has 80 points room for improvement - 8 questions per test
that he missed and, in all likelihood, 16 questions that he narrowed down to one of two choices and guessed 50/50 (getting
8 right and 8 wrong). In all, this person was guessing at 16 of the 60 scored questions. This person, whose GMAT score
seems impressive, was actually guessing at 27% of GMAT-CAT questions and missing 13%, which is not too impressive when that
person is supposed to be your teacher.
But let's see what this means for you if you hope to have someone with a 720 GMAT score prepare you for the GMAT. First,
this person's 80 points room for improvement means that this person would miss slightly over 1/3 of the questions that my
average client misses initially (again, before any GMAT classes).
So let's compare my ability to help you - as I do with every question my clients miss, guess at, or spend too much time on
- with the ability of this second-best GMAT instructor. Because this person will miss slightly more than 1/3 of the
questions you miss, let's reduce our consideration to three questions - 2 out of 3 that he can help you with and 3 out of
3 that I can help you with.
Because each GMAT question you get right elevates you to a higher score and a more difficult GMAT question and each GMAT
question you get wrong demotes you to a lower score and a less difficult GMAT question, the non-expert (with a 720 GMAT)
can only help you improve your score by 1 level over the course of 3 questions. In contrast, I can help you improve your
GMAT score by 3 levels over the course of 3 questions! In short, if you want to earn your personal-best GMAT score,
there's no contest. Choose me to teach you the GMAT-CAT.
Help
Q. Why can't I teach myself how to do my best on the GMAT?
A. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice reinforces habits - good habits and bad habits. Only perfect
practice makes perfect. And the methods that you need to do your best on the GMAT aren't available in any
book.
In order to earn your personal-best GMAT score, you need to learn: certain grammar methods for Sentence Correction,
how to split arguments into Evidence-Reasoning-Conclusion for Critical Reasoning, specific mathematical
numbers properties for Data Sufficiency, and many other GMAT topics. I've read every GMAT book on the market
and there isn't one that teaches even half the simple, powerful GMAT methods that I teach my clients.
Q. I have never needed professional assistance with a standardized test before. Why should I seek your help
now?
A. First, make your GMAT preparation decision on the merits of the here and now - namely, that you need to
do your best on the GMAT to earn your MBA from a highly ranked business school. Don't be lazy and reason that
just because you've never used expert test preparation before, that using expert GMAT preparation now doesn't
make economic sense for you. Live in the moment. Leave lazy logic to people who don't live in the moment.
There is nothing wrong with you seeking my help on the GMAT. In fact, it's strategic to outsource your need
for GMAT expertise. It will probably take you 1,000 hours to do as well on the GMAT on your own as you could
do in 100 hours with my expert assistance. Certainly 900 hours of your time and frustration are worth more
than $10,000. Further, you probably don't have 900 hours. You have important application essays to write,
schools to visit, deadlines to meet, etc.
So in making your GMAT preparation decision, learn from CEOs and Vice Presidents. Smart business people seek
expertise from the people whom they know can provide it. Be strategic about your GMAT preparation and decide
to let me teach you the GMAT.
Q. I've taken the GMAT and I think I can do a little better, should I retake the GMAT?
A. If you work with me, you can probably do a lot better. I've helped my clients earn their personal-best
GMAT scores, which are typically 50 to 150 points better than they have been able to earn through any other
preparation method. Yes, you should probably retake.
Success
Q. Why do your clients do so much better on the GMAT when studying with you than they did when studying with
Kaplan, Princeton Review, an individual tutor, or on their own?
A. It's no wonder my clients do so much better with me than they ever did with Kaplan, etc. The competition
is half-qualified. A person with a 680 GMAT score misses 20% of GMAT questions. (Note that a person can get
80% right and 20% wrong by correctly answering 60% of questions and guessing 50/50 between 2 answers on the
remaining 40% of questions). Such a person can only help my beginning clients with half of what they miss,
guess at, or spend too much time on. Clearly, a teacher who is half-qualified can only help you improve half
as much as you could have improved with a teacher who is fully-qualified.
In contrast, I've twice earned a perfect 800 on the GMAT-CAT. Earning an 800 requires knowing how to answer all the
hardest GMAT questions correctly and timely. Only 1 person in 13,500 earns a perfect 800 (and those 13,500
people constitute an elite group of people who already have a Bachelor's degree and seek a Master's or Doctorate
degree). So there's no luck in earning an 800, especially twice. I know the GMAT inside-out and I teach my clients what they
need to know.
Just as importantly, I am an experienced university teacher. I was a top 5% evaluated mathematics teacher at
the University of Miami, where I earned my Master of Science degree. Some of my clients have told me that I'm
the best teacher they've ever had. In contrast, most Kaplan or Princeton Review instructors have never taught
at the college level and never will.
Q. Do you have to be book smart to exceed 700 on the GMAT? I'm more street smart and I've been struggling with
the test.
A. If you don't study the GMAT with me, then yes, you probably need to be book smart to earn a 700. But I've
had great success helping people like yourself - people who have a lot of common sense but don't necessarily
excel on standardized tests - exceed 700.
The biggest problem that my street smart clients have is seeing how to apply their knowledge to the seemingly
unusual GMAT question at hand (and all GMAT questions are designed to be somewhat unusual). The biggest strengths
that my street-smart clients have are an excellent memory and a low rate of careless errors.
My Test-Perfect-Review system will help us find and address your weaknesses and help me leverage your strengths.
I will challenge you with over 1,000 real GMAT questions - which you take under real GMAT testing conditions.
Class by class, you'll improve your ability to apply what you know to all the seemingly unusual variations on
every GMAT question type theme. There's joy in repetition because, as Josh (a street smart client of mine)
said, "If it's a monkey see, monkey do situation, then I can do it." Josh improved by 170 points.
Combined, my Test-Perfect-Review system helps my street-smart clients (and my book smart clients) exceed 650, 700,
and 750.
Q. Do you have experience with clients who have English as a 2nd language?
A. Yes, I've helped 11 clients who have English as their second language and I am very familiar with the challenging
circumstances that you will encounter on the GMAT-CAT.
First, the GMAT draws very fine distinctions (even for people who have English as their first language) and unless
you are perfectly fluent (a 5/5), we will need to intensively study English grammar. Second, you may need to
increase your reading rate as the GMAT-CAT adapts to your success and Reading Comprehension passages can increase
from 40 lines to 80-90 lines. Third, on the word-problem heavy Quantitative section, we will need to make sure
that you can readily translate from English to Math. Finally, writing enough to achieve a 5.0 or better on the AWA
can be more of a challenge, which we will address on an as needed basis.
In combination, taking the GMAT in your second language is a challenge, but one that I have helped my clients beat
by having my ESL clients achieve GMAT scores as high as 760.
Q. What guarantees do you offer?
A. Because nobody can take the test for you, no GMAT service can, in good faith, guarantee you a specific GMAT score
or a specific improvement in your GMAT score. Any person or organization that claims to guarantee you a specific
GMAT score is lying to you.
Now, because GMAT scores cannot be guaranteed, some people and organizations - particularly people and organizations
that require that you pay in-full before you receive your GMAT service - offer pro-rata refunds or "Seconds". Neither
pro-rata refunds nor "seconds" are guarantees that you will achieve a specific GMAT score; rather, these are simply
ways to compensate you when their service fails.
Pro-rata refunds are nothing special - you were required to pay in-full, you found their service lacking, and you
decide to get the appropriate portion of your money back.
"Seconds", the policy of both Kaplan and Princeton Review, is even less appealing than pro-rata refunds. With "Seconds",
you cannot have a pro-rata refund, but once you finish the service you can have seconds if, for any reason, the initial
service did not satisfy you. This offer is akin to going to a restaurant, having to pay in-full when you order, not
liking the food, and then -- as some strange compensation -- being offered seconds.
In contrast to my competition, I don't believe that you need to pay in-full before we start. I'm not defensive that you
won't like my service. The competition, by requiring that you pay in-full before you start, seems strangely defensive
that you won't like their service and they are trying to keep you from leaving before you even start with them.
I'm confident that you will finish that first class with me as my other clients have - impressed with how well I know the
GMAT and how well I can teach it to you. And, as a result of you being impressed, you'll schedule our second class. I
leave this up to you and I do not twist your arm. Fortunately, I don't need to. I let you pay as you go. I earn my keep
each and every class. Still, I have had several clients who were so impressed with my first class that they decided to
save writing extra checks and pay in-full.
So keep these things in mind if anyone offers you a GMAT guarantee: (i) they don't know the GMAT as well as I do, (ii)
they can't teach as well as I can, and (iii) they need a gimmick to get your attention.
After all, no MBA program guarantees you a specific salary after you earn your MBA. How do you
prepare yourself to succeed after you earn your MBA? By going to the best business school that you can get accepted
to. Similarly, how do you best prepare yourself to succeed on the GMAT-CAT? By studying
the GMAT with me, Shawn Berry. There is no substitute for having me prepare you for
the GMAT.
Q. How will I know that I am improving class to class?
A. Each class the difficultly of the GMAT test I assign you will increase; yet you'll maintain or decrease your percentage
wrong from class to class. This is proof positive that you are improving. Further, halfway through our classes, I will
have you sit for the GMAT-CAT and you will see your midpoint progress. Then, upon finishing our 12 classes, you will sit
for the GMAT-CAT for a second, final time.
Q. Kaplan and Princeton Review don't readily make their instructors' scores available. What should I do?
A. Demand to see your prospective instructor's GMAT score. If he won't show it to you, then that
speaks volumes about his lack of credentials to teach you the GMAT-CAT.
Classes
Q. How long does it take to study with you?
A. It depends both on your schedule and your time & energy. To complete my system - to complete 12 Test-Perfect-Review
cycles - most of my clients take 4 weeks (3 cycles per week), 6 weeks (2 cycles per week), or 8 weeks (3 cycles every 2
weeks). I recommend that most clients prepare over 6 weeks, but there are, of course, circumstances that make 4 weeks or
8 weeks more effective. I require that you have 24 days to prepare (i.e. the fastest that you can do one
Test-Perfect-Review cycle is every 2 days) and I don't want you to stretch out your classes too far either (by week 10,
you'll forget fine points from week 1).
Q. Why are classes 2 hours?
A. I've found that to help my clients learn everything they need to know about an entire GMAT test takes 2 hours.
With relatively little time allocated to the AWA, this works out to approximately a 1:1 ratio of the time you will spend
taking the Quantitative and Verbal sections to time we will spend perfecting your Quantitative and Verbal sections.
Q. Where do you live? When and where do you meet your clients? How much driving will I need to do?
A. I live in Redwood City, which is in San Mateo county, California. I typically meet clients at my house
in Redwood City, which is 20 miles from either San Francisco or San Jose (typically a 15-45 minute drive from San Francisco
or anywhere on the peninsula). This central location allows me to offer my clients two class times --
5p and 7.30p -- per weekday evening (please note that if I was in transit, I could only offer one class time per
weekday evening and serve my clients only half as well). Similarly, with the benefit of a fixed location,
I offer my clients four class times -- 8a, 10.30a, 3p and 5.30p -- on Saturdays and Sundays. Further, on an as needed
basis, I arrange to meet my clients during the day on weekdays. In sum, my clients are very satisfied with my
ability to meet their scheduling demands.
I've had clients from San Francisco, Berkeley, and throughout Alameda and Santa Clara counties. There's
no reason why 10 to 20 hours of cumulative driving should keep you from earning your personal-best GMAT score. In particular,
my San Francisco clients have found that I am quite conveniently located after all.
Q. Have your clients only come from the San Francisco Bay Area?
A. No. I have had several clients travel from places such as Los Angeles, New York, Kansas City, and Washington DC.
Q. Do you serve clients who do not reside in the United States?
A. No, I'm sorry that I cannot. I do not work by phone; I do not work
by email. I wish I had the time to serve clients that do not reside in the United States,
but I simply don't.
Q. I want to come to California to work with you - is a week enough time?
A. A week is not enough time for you to assimilate all that we will discuss in our classes. I suggest that clients
who travel here to work with me allot 18-24 days for our classes - either in one block of time straight or in two
similarly sized blocks of time.
Q. I still have some questions about your service. Do you meet with potential clients prior to beginning classes?
A. Yes, I offer a 1 hour "get to know you" session, in which I can answer any further questions you may have and make
sure that we will work well together.
Q. How do you succeed in meeting your clients' time and location demands for your GMAT classes?
A. I limit my client load to 5 clients, so I can offer them the flexibility in scheduling they need.
Q. Do I have to pay for your service up front?
A. No, you can pay for each of the first ten classes on a class-by-class basis ($1,000 per class), and then
the last two classes are paid in full.
Price
Q. I'm going to spend so much money on my MBA? Why should I spend $10,000 on GMAT preparation?
A. If earning an MBA is worth $150,000 to $300,000 to you (in tuition and lost wages), isn't earning the MBA that
maximizes your MBA profit worth an additional $10,000? A lively response from one of my clients was, "Hell, yes."
Overall, Shawn Berry's GMAT Service beats the Law of Diminishing Returns. By investing an additional 5% in yourself
and your MBA, you can improve MBA Profit by 100% to 200%.
Q. Do you offer discounts?
A. No. If you can afford an MBA, then you can afford my GMAT service. According to my clients, I earn what I charge
and a whole lot more.
Q. I've compared GMAT preparation prices and you charge the most. How do you justify your price?
A. Read Analyze the Task.
MBA Admissions
Q. Why is the GMAT so much more important than previous grades?
A. Good question. There are at least 10 good answers:
1. The GMAT is the only common metric in the MBA admissions process. All the research on common metrics shows that -
because they're comparable - people naturally over-weight a common metric's importance. Meanwhile, non-common metrics
are under-weighted or downright ignored.
2. Grades are a notoriously non-common metric (i.e., not directly comparable). While most U.S. colleges are on a 4 point
system, international colleges may use a 5 point system, a 10 point system, a 100 point system, or a letter only system.
Also, people study wildly different subject matter. Depending on how you see the world, a 3.5 GPA in Sociology may be
more impressive or less impressive than a 3.3 GPA in Engineering. Moreover, people study at very different institutions.
Finally, some people had to pay their way through college, which limited their study time, but gave them work experience
and time management skills. A person who worked 30 hours a week, studied full-time, and earned a 3.3 GPA probably
learned much more than someone with a 3.5 GPA whose father paid the tuition.
3. Professors have no consistent grading standards. Grades are inflated and have little meaning. The grade 'B' doesn't
mean 'above average'. If professors only graded using a bell curve, then grades would have much more substance. But the
vast majority of professors don't grade according to this standard. Worse, professors who grade hard and professors who
grade easy are not randomly distributed. Professors in the sciences and engineering are much more likely to be hard
graders (and often use a bell curve), while professors in arts, business, and social sciences are usually easy graders
(and generally reject a bell curve). Thus making fair comparisons across subject matter studied becomes even more complex.
4. The GMAT is strictly timed. In contrast, some people earned better grades simply because they spent all their time
studying. MBA programs want people who get their work done in a strict amount of time and have plenty of time left to
find a job, have some fun, enrich their MBA community, etc. The GMAT is a better indicator of what someone can accomplish
in a fixed period of time.
5. What gets measured gets attention. Average GMAT scores are widely publicized and widely followed. Nobody cares to
follow average GPAs.
6. What have you done for me lately? The GMAT is a recent measure, usually in the last year. In contrast grades are dated.
For the average person who enters a Top 15 MBA programs at age 28, undergraduate grades are 6 to 10 years old. Admissions
officers prefer to evaluate applicants as they are now, not how they were nearly a decade ago.
7. The GMAT tests how you perform under pressure. In contrast, homework and term papers are low pressure. As Bud Fox said
in Wall Street, "Life all comes down to a few moments. This [meeting Gordon Gekko] is one of them". Business schools want
to educate and graduate winners, not people who choke under pressure.
8. The GMAT is proof of your "horsepower", a glowing term used by management consultants and investment bankers. MBA students
who exceed 700 are perceived to have horsepower, people who don't generally aren't perceived this way. Exceeding 700 on
the GMAT helps you get closed-list interviews and, thereby, job offers. No particular GPA confers these benefits.
9. The GMAT is a significantly better predictor of how well you will perform in your first year of business school than
grades are. Across 101 validity studies conducted at 84 graduate business schools, GMAT scores account for nearly 90%
(.39 correlation out of .45 correlation) of the combined predictive value of the GMAT and grades. Meanwhile, grades
accounted for less than 50% (.22 correlation of .45 correlation) of the combined predictive value of the GMAT and grades.
In other words, grades are a 'redundant explanatory variable'. In a complicated matter, you rely on the tool that explains
90% of what can be explained and ignore the tool that explains only half of what can be explained.
10. Admissions officers only have so much time to evaluate thousands and thousands of applications. Further, admissions
officers are a decidedly non-quantitative group of people who care much more about reading your application essays than
trying to account for all the complexity that's required to properly compare grades. Unless you have an undergraduate GPA
below 3.0 (which will hurt you), you can show that you're ready for MBA coursework by doing your best on the GMAT-CAT.
Q. I've been waitlisted, should I retake the GMAT?
A. Probably. If your GMAT score is already 750 or above, I don't think that you should retake.
However, if your GMAT score is below 750 and you have at least 24 days to prepare, then you'll
probably benefit by retaking the GMAT. To exemplify this, I had a client named Kristi, who was
stuck on a Top 15 MBA program's waitlist and, in just 4 weeks, she and I raised her GMAT score by
70 points. That made the difference because she was accepted off the waitlist the very next day.
MBA Market
Q. Why do you average BusinessWeek rankings from both 2000 and 2002?
A. MBA placement statistics in a bear market (2002) are so different than those in a bull market (2000) that
the only fair way to evaluate MBA programs at this time is to combine their recent bull market and bear market statistics. I
use BusinessWeek because it's the most thorough ranking organization and the most followed by prospective MBAs.
Career
Q. Don't people make an MBA Profit based on what they do with their MBA, not where they get their MBA?
A. The most prestigious MBA employers (such as management consulting firms and investment banks)
recruit people exclusively from ranked MBA programs. If you don't attend one of these ranked schools, you can't make your way
into one of these top companies. So, no, where you earn your MBA is a huge factor in determining what MBA Profit you earn.
Q. You say that the Unranked MBA programs provide little, if any, profit. But I went to an Unranked
B-school and I'm earning significantly more money than I did before B-school. What do you say to that?
A. I say that people can expect, on average, to make little MBA profit from
the Unranked MBA programs. I am happy for you, but you're in the minority. Recently, in fact,
many people who graduated from Unranked MBA programs came out in a worse employment situation
than they were in before business school. In addition to losing money on their MBA
investment, these Unranked MBA graduates are precluded from earning an MBA from a Top 15 or
Top 30 MBA program - the MBA programs that consistently deliver $500,000 to $5,000,000 in
MBA profit.
Shawn Berry
Q. What do you do, if anything, in addition to Shawn Berry's GMAT Service?
A. I am the President of two small businesses - Shawn Berry's GMAT Service and my forthcoming marketing strategy consulting
firm. I devote roughly 30 hours per week to each business.
Q. Will your Duke MBA net you $1,000,000 profit over and above what you would have earned otherwise?
A. Yes, over the course of my 30 year post-MBA career, I'm confident that it will. Earning my MBA was the springboard I
needed to transition from working for someone else to being the president of two small businesses. I control my destiny in
a way that I couldn't have without what I learned at Duke. Thank you Fuqua.
Q. Why do you care that I maximize my MBA profit?
A. The business answer is that if I take care of my clients, my clients will take care of me.
The personal answer is that I like to help people and I'm proud to be able to help my clients realize their MBA (and career)
dreams. Value is not something I wrestle away from people. Instead, value is something that I help my clients create! In
this win-win situation, I help you earn your personal-best GMAT score and maximize your MBA profit. Out of the hundreds of
thousands, perhaps even millions, of dollars in MBA profit that I can help you earn, I earn $10,000. I'm sure that, like my other clients, you
will find this arrangement very fair.
Q. Do you offer help with the application essays?
A. I specialize in GMAT preparation. However, I'm option oriented and last year I provided admissions guidance for a
client. Although my client was accepted to multiple Top 10 MBA programs, I'm not interested in reliving this.
As such, I now have a strategic partner with whom I will connect you for application and essay guidance. Please ask me for
this information.
Q. Why did you choose Duke for your MBA? What area of study did you emphasize in your MBA?
A. I chose Duke for its excellence in marketing and general management, its relatively small size, and the Fuqua
Fellowship I was awarded that paid the majority of my Duke MBA tuition. I emphasized marketing strategy, with an
information technology industry focus.
Q. Why did you choose the University of Miami for your Masters in Math?
A. I chose the University of Miami for its math department's small size and the math department's uncommon policy to let
promising graduate students teach their own classes. I knew I'd be an excellent teacher and, at age 22, I was anxious to
start teaching.
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