We don’t want to claim that this happens often, but in the last few months we had two students who needed just a single tutoring session to help them get the scores that they wanted (both also got into the top schools they applied to including HBS, Stanford,...
GMAT/GRE Case Studies
Case Study: Jake R.
Location: Bay Area, CAStarting GMAT Score: N/A (Pivoted from GRE)Final GMAT Score: 760School Attended: Berkeley (Haas) The first interesting thing about Jake’s situation is that he came to us having already taken the GRE in college and having gotten a very...
Case Study: Josh L.
Location: Westchester, NYStarting GMAT Score: 590Final GMAT Score: 710School Attended: Wharton At the time, Josh’s case was unique for me in that he was starting a ManhattanGMAT class at the same time that we began meeting (I had worked with students who had...
Case Study: Chloe F.
Location: Boston, MAStarting GRE Score: 145Q 154VFinal GMAT Score: 160Q 162VSchool Attended: Harvard Business School Chloe was a classic case of someone who is very smart but not great at Math or at standardized tests. She was also one of the many people I...
Case Study: Mark L
Location: Calgary, CanadaStarting GRE Score: N/A (Pivoted from GMAT)Final GMAT Score: 169Q 164V (equivalent to 760 GMAT)School Attended: Stanford GSB Mark makes for an interesting case study for a couple of reasons. The most important is that he came to me...
Case Study: Aaron S.
Location: New York CityStarting GMAT Score: 620Final GMAT Score: 740School Attended: Harvard Business School Aaron came to me with very little experience with the test and an initial practice test score of 620. In our first session it became clear to me that...
Case Study: Evan M.
Location: London, UKStarting GMAT Score: 430Final GMAT Score: 690School Attended: London Business School Evan achieved one of the biggest score increases I have ever seen with any of my students, so this is part of the reason I chose to include him here. But...
Case Study: Louis P.
Location: Paris, FranceStarting GMAT Score: 410Final GMAT Score: 670School Attended: NYU Louis is a non-native English speaker and came to me with no experience whatsoever with the GMAT. Normally I would have a new student take a diagnostic before meeting...
Case Study: Chantal L.
Location: New York CityStarting GMAT Score: 480Final GMAT Score: 600School Attended: Columbia Business School Chantal was one of my all time favorite students (I am still friends with her) and her case illustrates several important lessons. Chantal is...
Case Study: Heath C.
Location: Dallas, TexasStarting GMAT Score: 640Final GMAT Score: 710School Attended: JD-MBA at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) Heath came to me having taken the GMAT 6 times before! He had already done a Master’s in accounting so some of the...
Case Study: David N.
Starting GMAT Score: 670Final GMAT Score: 730School Attended: Wharton Since the other case studies provide a lot of detail about how the process unfolds with many of my students and since David’s situation wasn’t really much different in that regard, I am...
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