<p>Hello guys,</p>
<p>I was surfing the web and noticed that there were numbers of private consultants who claim to help you with your application process.</p>
<p>Are most of them legit? I mean, the price varies from 500-10,000 dollars, is it worth having someone who is "experienced" with the applications process? I guess I'm willing to spend the money (even though I'd have to work twice as much) as long as I know for sure that it will help.</p>
<p>Has anyone hired professional consultants when applying to transfer? I got rejected from my dream school as a transfer last semester, and I would like to get some help, since my parents, friends, and professors either don't know much about transferring process, or they are not willing to help me.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>a consultant may be able to help some of the more subjective parts of your application (essay, which profs to get recs from, answering school-specific questions) but can obviously not salvage poor gpa, test scores, etc.</p>
<p>if you have the money to waste, go ahead, but realize that a large part of your application is based on what YOU have done, not on what a consultant can do for you.</p>
<p>I feel like it was my essays that may have been my weakest strength. Will they be able to help with the essays? I mean, I'm a horrible writer!</p>
<p>they will not write them for you, but they will probably ask you a variety of questions to get you thinking the right way and get the right ideas to come out. then they will help you structure those ideas in such a way so as to answer the question in an organized manner; they will not write the essays for you but this is definitely the area which consultants can be of most help in.</p>
<p>Thanks celticsfan5! I really appreciate your comments.<br>
Have you known anyone who hired them and benefited from doing so?<br>
I only have a month before the deadline, do you think it'd be worth it? I'm willing to work very, very hard on my application for the next few weeks.
Anyways, thanks a lot! :-)</p>
<p>I knew someone who used an essay consultant when applying as a freshman applicant and he was accepted cornell, which i believe was a slight reach for him.</p>
<p>Do you know which consultant he used?</p>
<p>i'm really not sure. i just knew that he had used one.</p>
<p>Thanks celticsfan5! Your posts are really, really helpful!</p>