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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:
Anyone who wants to go to grad school should build a balanced background of comprehensive excellence. For law school, it’s much more about your academic record. The one thing I can also say is that because the economy has softened so much in the past year, a lot of people have struggled finding jobs they would’ve gotten a year or two ago and a lot of them are looking to grad school. They think they can improve their education and become a much more compelling potential hire once the economy improves. The problem is, it’s also become much more competitive to get in.
The article brought things full circle, in a way, since the company was last profiled in the Yale newspaper back in Decemeber, 2001, while it was still going by the name TestSmarter. We're glad that Chad and Markus decided to go with Veritas Prep, instead!
To learn more about Veritas Prep and what we offer, take a look at our GMAT prep and admissions consulting offerings.
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