In our never-ending quest to provide the most comprehensive and modern GMAT preparation available anywhere, we are proud to introduce the Veritas Prep GMAT Practice Quiz app for the iPhone and iPod Touch! This free application gives you access to more than 180 realistic GMAT questions in a realistic and easy-to-use interface.
You’ve asked for it, and now you’ve got it! By popular demand, we will allow a select number of students to attend the first class of our May 12 GMAT courses in L.A., Boston, and Chicago at no charge and with no string attached. This gives you a chance to meet your Veritas Prep instructor and see for yourself why we offer the industry’s most comprehensive GMAT preparation.
These aren’t free seminars or “preview” sessions — you will be able to sit in on the real first class of our seven-week Full Course. You will receive a complimentary lesson plan to bring with you to your Free Trial Class so you can follow along with the instructor just like everyone else. The Free Trial Class gives you a terrific opportunity to meet your Veritas Prep instructor before enrolling in a Veritas Prep GMAT course, with no obligation unless you choose to enroll.
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow (May 1) we will raise prices on our GMAT courses. Starting tomorrow, the new prices will be:
Enroll in a GMAT prep course now to lock in our old prices. We have courses starting everywhere the week of May 11!
Last week Yale student Vivian Yee interviewed Veritas Prep co-founder Chad Troutwine about how the company got its start as part of a business plan competition while Chad and Markus Moberg were students at Yale SOM. The brief article provides a nice snapshot of what the test prep and admissions landscape looked like back in 2002, and Chad provides some thoughts on what has changed since then.
You can read the full article here, but below is an especially useful snippet, taken from Chad’s answer to a question about advice for people who are applying to grad school now:
Last week the Bay Area’s Contra Costa Times ran an article titled “Value of an MBA Put to the Test,” focusing on the evolving return-on-investment equation for prospective business school students. In the article, David Morrill turned to Veritas Prep for advice to give to prospective business school applicants.
For the first time in more than two years, Veritas Prep will soon raise prices on its GMAT prep courses. These changes will take effect on May 1, 2009, and will enable us to continue providing the best in GMAT preparation.
We have always prided ourselves on providing the industry
Normally we don’t use this space to blatantly flog our GMAT prep courses, but this week we have dozens of courses starting around the world!
If you want the most complete GMAT preparation available from any company, anywhere, then we recommend our Full Course. This is our most popular format, which gives you six hours of in-class preparation per week, over seven weeks. (In some of our bigger cities, such as New York, we also offer a Saturday-only GMAT class.) These courses start tonight and tomorrow night in most cities, and this coming Saturday in those bigger cities.
If you prefer to attend class on weekends and also want to finish in fewer than seven weeks, our Weekend Course gives you 36 hours in class over two straight weekends. The difference vs. our Full Course is that less time is spent on class reviewing homework lessons, so rest assured that you’ll learn everything in this course as in the Full Course. The Weekend Course also gives you the chance to focus just on verbal or quant lessons, if one of those areas is your predominate weakness.
Veritas Prep has hit your local newsstand! This month’s issue of Entrepreneur Magazine features a cover story about Veritas Prep and its two co-founders, Markus Moberg and Chad Troutwine. The story describes how Veritas Prep evolved from an idea for how to build a better test prep company to a winning business plan entry to a startup run out of their dining room to the fastest-growing GMAT prep and admissions consulting company in the world.
Attention all GMAT test takers in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C.! This is a reminder that Veritas Prep will host a free seminar in your city tonight.
Additionally, for the people in New York and DC, we have special giveaways planned. One New York seminar attendee will win a free Veritas Prep GMAT course, a $1,500 value. When you arrive, make sure to sign in to be eligible to win the free course. You will also get to hear from Veritas Prep co-founder Chad Troutwine on his proven tactics for acing the GMAT.
There goes another year! As 2008 winds down, we thought we’d share some of our most popular posts and most interesting topics from the past 12 months:
Thanks for reading, everyone! Best wishes for a terrific 2009!
All of us at Veritas Prep want to with you a wonderful holiday season. For those of you who are rushing to get your business school applications done before the second-round deadlines take a look at our sample MBA essays for some inspiration and an idea of what works and what doesn’t.
The folks at BusinessWeek are working on an interesting and valuable series: If someone could start planning their business school application five years in advance, what should they plan and do each year leading up to submitting their application? For the first story in this series, called Five Years to B-School: The First Year, she turned to Veritas Prep’s own Scott Shrum for advice for future MBA applicants.
The intersection of business school and the economy continues to be a story worth telling and the latest to do so is CFO.com. The noted website has run a feature on the effects of the economic recession and the spike in applications that has already been on display and that is projected to continue through the remaining rounds of the MBA admissions process. The value of the CFO.com piece is that the article moves from mere trends in the admissions space to some helpful tips that will allow applicants to maintain their footing in a more competitive cycle.
Inside Higher Ed, one of the leading voices on matters related to the higher education space, recently turned to Veritas Prep for insights on the competition among business schools in trying to outshine one another in the rankings. Chad Troutwine and I recently were in Washington, D.C., and we had a chance to sit down with Inside Higher Ed‘s Jack Stripling to discuss trends affecting the world’s top MBA programs.
As detailed throughout this space, the business school landscape continues to evolve in the wake of the recent financial crisis and ongoing economic recession. Now mainstream media outlets are diving into the story and attempting to sort out fact from fiction and determine accurate trends with regards to the MBA admissions process.
When Bloomberg’s Oliver Staley recently wrote a story about Pepsico’s ex-Chairman Steve Reinemund joining Wake Forest’s Babcock Graduate School of Management as its new dean, he turned to Veritas Prep for a viewpoint on the MBA rankings game.
Veritas Prep is proud to present, along with Beat the GMAT, the MBA Fast Track Scholarship. We’re giving away nearly $20,000 in free GMAT Preparation and Admissions Consulting services to the lucky winners of this scholarship. Five winners will be selected by representatives from Veritas Prep and Beat the GMAT.
The Scoretop.com scandal has been the big business school news the past couple of days. We already posted an article on Monday about the FAQ released by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), but more information continues to come to light. GMAC released more information today, which was covered in this AP article.
As they promised when the Scoretop.com story first broke, the folks at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) have just released an FAQ regarding GMAC’s case against Scoretop and what it means for people who have used the site.
I generally don’t like to boast about my job. Firstly, it goes against all of my hip/jaded sensibilities; secondly, it usually comes off as insincere – my paycheck and I have become quite attached and I would likely say anything to keep it that way. But, at the risk of losing all of my “hard-earned” hipness and credibility, I’m going to make the following announcement: Veritas Prep has the best view in test prep!
I literally mean that our office in Malibu has one of the greatest views known to man. Our terrific view is right up there with the best of them: Machu Pichu, Everest, Eiffel Tower, Grand Canyon …
Hello, and welcome. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our newly launched Veritas Prep Blog!
For our new readers who may not know who we are, Veritas Prep is a test-preparation and admissions consulting company focusing exclusively on the GMAT and MBA admissions. We attract the top instructors (all have scored in the 99th percentile), and provide more hours of live instruction than other GMAT preparation companies. To learn more about us, you can visit our site.
As the world's largest privately-owned test preparation and
admissions consulting provider, Veritas Prep
maintains a large network of instructors, consultants, and students. Our blog is a way of opening up this
community to new visitors and sharing our knowledge about standardized testing, graduate school admissions, and the business world itself.
