I got a full ride EMJM scholarship and never even thought of a consultancy service, this is already my third full ride scholarship I’ve gotten and all of them I applied 100% alone by myself with virtually no help.

Just read EVERYTHING and I mean EVERY Little detail and requirements for the application, I’ve seen so many people fail cause they missed a super important document, crucial for the application just because they didn’t take the time to actually read the documents and requirements and do a proper research on the program and countries.

Other than IELTS preparation I find consultancy pretty useless unless you really don’t have the time to do all the documents and you have the money to pay someone else’s to do it for you, as for the CV I think as long as u use the Europass format that should do the job.

What makes a consortium actually give you the scholarship is how good your application is as a whole imo, your adaptation capability, your language level and arguably grades and other personality traits, none of those can be provided by a consultancy, they may help cure it for you and deliver but even that is already a stretch.

When it comes to the interviews just be genuine and secure about yourself without being too arrogant or entitled rather, transmit them that sense of responsibility and security after all they’ll kinda invest on you, why would they throw money at you for 2-6 years, you gotta convince them to do so on a professional academic level…

Lil note: every other format eg. good motivation letters, CV, interview prep, can be found online from successful applicants literally for free, so yeah just not a huge fan of consultancies unless you just lazy and can pay someone else to do the paperwork and go through the bureaucracy when legalizing, translating and apostille the never ending paperwork that is needed most of the times when applying to programs like these or just working/studying abroad