After I read that post, I feel obliged to let you all know that every applicant should trust yourself and no one will do better than yourself. Most of time, people needs consultant because they lack expertise on it--but here for application for graduate schools, there is simply no expertise at all; on the contrary, this is 100% personal endeavour.
The ability to learn and explore yourself is critical in your life. #1. Get on-line and study yourself, google it!!! Read school's website line by line #2. Ask around for anyone in the same interests or have experience in it. #3. Email school's staff, professor, student or simply call them directly.
One FATAL mistake about asking 中介 for help is not about wasting money and wasting your own opportunities, it is about the fact that you will get used to ask for people's help when it is totally unnecessary and you will get used to being lazy, count on others, think money solves all and etc. That is the hidden danger for all students who want to study abroad alone.
Act on day one and trust that you can do anything if you really wanted. Forgive my typos and etc. above.
我觉得还是看个人吧~找了中介自己也要上心~并不代表就会get used to ask for people's help就会get used to being lazy, count on others, think money solves all and etc. 我找的咨询可是我觉得我一点也没闲着。。。。