When preparing to consult an intermediary, I checked it online first. I think 90% of the students will definitely think of the intermediary they have heard before they plan to consult. They are familiar with each other, and there is nothing they can do. I am no exception. I specially consulted a well-known large-scale intermediary, although large institutions have great advantages in appearance, scale and branches. This is just a facade. In fact, it belongs to external forces and internal services. For example, teacher experience is often a large intermediary, aiming at profit. Many students come to consult, and students in various situations will try their best to get TA to sign the contract. There are more students and more teachers. What if there are not so many experienced teachers? Besides, the salary of an experienced teacher is definitely more expensive than that of a teacher with one or two years of experience. Therefore, in order to save money, teachers with little experience will be hired, and students will be taken after packing. Perhaps such a teacher has no experience of studying abroad. There are not many teachers with 30 or 40 students in a session, and when there are many, it may reach 50 or 60. At that time, the teacher may not even say anything about you. If you don't take the initiative to contact you, the teacher will definitely have no time to contact you.
This kind of intermediary management is very confusing. There is a problem that can't be solved by a suitable teacher. This teacher pushed it to another teacher, and the other teacher pushed it to other teachers. And there is no special department to manage, standardize teachers' behavior and supervise them. The job-hopping rate is high. If the teacher leaves, the process will be broken and it will take a long time to reconnect. Besides, this is an assembly line, and teachers always change it, so it will waste a lot of time.
I know so much because some students around me have really experienced this, and I have also learned from my classmates' experience. Regardless of size and appearance, it is very important to find a study agent. In fact, I didn't expect the signing of Huide's study abroad to be an unexpected thing, because there was little online publicity in his family, but I heard that it was a boutique intermediary, and the later teacher experience was the highlight, and it was brought all the way by the later teacher. In my heart, I also take my students to dig up documents and materials, customize the big framework, and then fill in the details together, and then the overseas admissions officer will polish the writing.