My first review of 2021 goes to...ECE. I had the most pleasant experience with ECE, their service was super fast, professional and made my life so easy. I was referred to ECE by the ADA actually the ADA only accepts your transcripts if they are evaluated by ECE, the process was stress free. I submitted my application on 12/14/20 and I was required to scan and email some of my documents and mail through FEDEX my transcripts in order to get evaluated. I had a lot of questions...and even though they do not take phone calls at the moment, they are available via chat, Ben was awesome and super helpful. I mailed my transcripts on 12/15/20 and by 12/23/20 the ADA emailed me to let me know that they had received my documents and everything was good to go. So the process really only took 8 days, not to mention they kept me informed every step of the way and you can also login to your account to see the status of your file. 3 days later I received via FedEx my original documents and also a sealed Evaluation Report. Price: $185.00, which included the Evaluation & Translation of my documents, electronic delivery to the ADA and an Evaluation Report for my records. I'm so happy with their service. My process was nice and smooth. 5 Stars! read more

I don't know how else to reach out to you!! I would like to file a formal complaint regarding both the handling of my evaluation order and the customer service I received today. My university deadline has already passed because I have been unable to get a clear update regarding my evaluation. I have repeatedly contacted ECE and have not been given any specific information or a resolution. During my chat today, I explained that this delay has already affected my ability to start university this year. Instead of escalating the issue or allowing me to continue the conversation, the representative ended the chat. I find this extremely inappropriate, particularly given the seriousness and time-sensitive nature of my situation. Please escalate my case to a supervisor or manager and provide me with a concrete status update on my evaluation, including when it will be completed. read more

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they do not do electronic delivery. technologically stuck in 2010. it costs a fortune. customer service useless. just had to rush deliver myself a 82$ transcript to take a photo of it and attach it my application and then reorder a mailed copy to send to the same institution. 0/10 recommend. read more

I did have a hard time receiving the validation and course by course evaluation of my diploma. It was difficult because it took longer than predicted, also involved 2 universities, and the validator. I also dislike that some information might have been conveyed in an way which I did not fully understand what ECE was asking. I do have to say that they did validaded my diploma in the end, and they do have after purchase custumer support. read more

Wasted an exorbitant amount of money for which was inaccurate paperwork. Lack of knowledge of curriculum and caliber of faculty as well as level of difficulty in translation of UK grading to US grades. I do not recommend this company. read more

Horrible experience. They unnecessarily asked for documents from university which in my case was really not needed. Then they went ahead and wrote the report. When emailed them a very rude person responded saying no change will be made and no refund will be issued. read more

A bait and switch on timing. Before paying, they tell you that they will have results in 3 to 5 business days. Only after you pay (with absolutely no possibility of a refund) then you get a notice: "Due to high volume" they can't meet that time-line. If you need results in 5 business days, pay an extra $80 for rush service. No reputable company would do this. read more

I have ordered a high-school course by course report and I have issues with the following: [I am in the process of filing a lawsuit if they don't correct the problems reported] My GPA is 3.27 when, conform their own system and their calculations written on the back of the report, should be 3.45. Also I have attended 4 years of high-school in Romania and graduated with a score of 90 out of 100. Their credit unit system equivaleted all of my classes with a max of 1.33 unit. How is that right when I took math and English 4 classes a week for 8 semesters? I should have 4 credits for each instead of 1.33! I don't even want to mention that the math that a studied in high-school was far more advanced than the math they study in the US. I have contacted them last week and still no response If I lose my scholarship because of their so called mistake it is going to be pretty ugly. Ece ref no: E03770 read more

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Super excellent! I was skeptical to send my originals but they knew what they were doing. They did my evaluation for rush service and in 5 days I had my originals back. They were super-responsive in chat too. Don't go anywhere else, ECE is the best!!! read more

TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY I wish I had read the reviews before using them to evaluate my transcripts. There were multiple errors in my evaluation so I contacted customer service and they had the evaluator contact me. The evaluator Maria Morawski got so defensive about my concerns and immediately concluded not to make any changes to my evaluation. It was a total waste of time and money getting a course by course evaluation with them. She probably has zero knowledge of evaluating transcripts from France. She gave me F for 2 couses that I got 12/20 and 9.5/20 and refused to address that issue. Their phone numbers are not working so I requested to speak to a manager over the phone but no one has reached out to me since then. She reduced my GPA drastically. read more

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TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY I wish I had read the reviews before using them to evaluate my transcripts. There were multiple errors in my evaluation so I contacted customer service and got very little help , I first paid for a High School and University Level Course by Course but had to change after two months of back and forth because they wouldn't recognize the official school Academy of lille worker that sent my baccalaureate grades multiple times ! Then did a course by course but they later ( 3 months ) found that the official school transcript of my second year of university was not good enough for them ? Even though they knew I had a deadline and the costs of everything was already expensive I had to go to the post office many times , just to get scammed by them. They therefore told me to get a general report but gave me no credits because apparently my school was not recognized at the time , but it is obvious that they have not done their research because university in France is always recognized , they got my first and second year transcripts sent directly by the school and that wasn't enough! They just lie and try to scam international students ! If they had actually done even a little research they would know that I was in the TOP 5 BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN FRANCE and passed so it is impossible to not even get one credit or gpa ! They are scammers , the customer service is slow and horrible , please stay away from them ! Bineta W. read more

They evaluated my German Bachelor's degree which apparently isn't good enough for the US because they didn't recognize it as a US equivalent ONLY BASED ON THE LENGTH. Just because in Germany we finish our undergraduate in 3 years, doesn't mean we're lacking quality (I'm convinced after talking to several American students here that even the 3 years are much harder and deeper in content than the 4 years here, I'm sorry. Sometimes you don't even have to write a Thesis here?). It's no one's fault that the length is different, it's just different countries - different systems which has nothing to do with quality. I'm so disappointed I wasted that money and might not be able to start my Master's here which I'm perfectly qualified for because they think studying longer is better. read more

PLEASE READ!!!!! IMPORTANT!!! My name is Karine Melikyan, I am an internationally trained dentist and scientist who has been granted a Green card as an extraordinary ability researcher in 2015, multiple international and US patents owner.  I am forced to leave this review. On march 7th 2022, I have received a second diploma evaluation and the recent result showed almost one point less in comparison with the previous one. The evaluator (Mrs. Popa - who is not a official ECE evaluator)  has failed to give credits for following subjects: Nursing Care practice - three weeks  - 0.00 US credits  Prevention of Dental Diseases - two weeks  - 0.00 US credits  Operative dentistry - three weeks  - 0.00 US credits  Oral Surgery - three weeks - 0.00 US credits  Prosthodontics  - three weeks 0.00 US credits  Pediatric Dentistry - three weeks - 0.00 US credits  despite the fact that previously it was evaluated like this: Nursing Care practice - three weeks  - 1.50 US credits  Prevention of Dental Diseases - two weeks  - 1.00 US credits Operative dentistry - three weeks  - 1.50 US credits  Oral Surgery - three weeks - 1.50 US credits  Prosthodontics  - three weeks 1.50 US credits  Pediatric Dentistry - three weeks - 1.50 US credits  Since March 14th 2022, I have never received any policy references to explain  that blatant actions and discimintive approach to me and my GPA, except explanations such as: "education is a continuous process", "we can issue a refund".  ECE actions toward me are clearly discriminative due to the origin of my dental diploma- Russian Federation. The fascistic campaign was supported and covered by Majka Drewitz, Margaret Wenger, Monica Maz. Unfortunately, ECE Present, Margit Schatzman has been continuously ignoring my emails. Sincerely, Karine Melikyan read more

Fast and convenient during this Covid19 Whenever they got my documents they worked on it right away and I get it back in a few days. Love it and my original diploma from my country works for where my license requires too. read more

I had a horrible experience with this organization. I submitted my original documents and waited for them to evaluate it. 3 weeks passing by, I didn't here a single update from them. I called and they said they sent me an email to say my transcripts are the copies, not original. I never received that email. They blamed it on technical error but why don't you just send another email or call me or find a way to reach me out instead of sitting still and waiting for me to contact you? I explained to them that the transcripts I submitted are the originals with the red stamp from my university. Apparently they don't really know how education system in other countries works other than the U.S. They told me the originals must be sent from a department that doesn't even exist in my country. Even if they do they won't provide such things. I was mad because at this point it's been almost a month and I got nothing done but wait and late replies. I called them to cancel and asked if I can pay extra for my documents to be sent back immediately. It was $40 for the overnight service and the lady on the phone told me I will get my refund back. I paid $145 in total so it should be $105. That day I received an email saying I will only get a partial refund because based on their regulations, they don't really do refund but my case was the exception. I understand the regulations and it was my mistake for not reading it carefully. However, the staff shouldn't inform me such inaccurate information. At the end of the day, I lost $90 for nothing. I sent my documents to a different organization and got it done in less than 24hrs (rush service). I could have given this organization a zero star review if that was an option! Super disappointed and dissatisfied! read more

About two years ago, I ordered a course-by-course evaluation. I was in a Community College, so they accepted the credits ok. Now I am transferring to a University and they are not. I looked at the document that ECE issued and noticed that the credits for the classes were wrong, giving me less credit than the original. Because of that, I need to retake classes, so the course-by-course evaluation was completely useless. TWICE I tried to solve this problem. Once they came up with a ridiculous logic of full time average students in America, and the second they said they can't do any changes after a year of the evaluation. read more

I could really relate to comments about how they are not good with universities from Asia. Do not select this company, they will ask for all original documents and will not work with your situation. I wish i had checked these reviews before paying $180. read more

I am very pleased with the work of ECE, they went above and beyond to help me. The evaluation was accurate and efficient. Thanks ECE

Signed up to Yelp to leave this review. Do not use if you have a UK degree! Company states that they will give you a GPA equivalent of your overseas degree. However, they assign rigid GPA figures to very broad percentage ranges. Meaning if you have a high 2:1 you're likely to end up with a something close to a 3.0 GPA - a great disservice to your hard work! In the UK everybody knows the majority of 'good' degrees operate in the 60%-70% bracket. However, ECE will award a 3.0 to a 60-69% and a 4.0 to anything above a 70%, i.e. they have a 10% banding system which doesn't translate well to US GPAs. In their words: "in our judgment, academic achievement in the UK below the top-tier recognition of "First Class" (70%) is not fully equivalent to academic achievement in the United States represented by the top-tier grade of "A"" When I tried to question them on their scoring system I received a very lofty, pompous response from the Senior Evaluator who advised me that the evaluation had been done correctly according to ECE guidelines ... Sure but the guidelines are garbage. Do yourself a favor and use a company that implements a narrower banding system, using +/- grades preferably with a 5% banding system. I was able to boost my GPA substantially using a legitimate evaluation service. BEWARE - NO REFUNDS read more

I hired ECE for a course by course assessment of an MA I earned in the UK to use in my applications to graduate programs in the US. Of all of the agencies that provided this service that I researched, ECE was best equipped to work with my school's COVID related limitations (they are currently only able to send transcripts via email, paper copies are not available, and they are extremely understaffed and take a long time to respond). I had read a review stating that ECE uses a metric to evaluate British grades that result in unfairly low GPAs equivalencies, so I was concerned. However, I found their evaluation of my GPA to be completely fair and in alignment with my understanding of my academic achievement in my courses. ECE's customer service was also excellent - they answered my emails in a timely manner (1-2 days tops) with all the details I was requesting. And once they received all of my documents, they completed the report and sent it on to my universities very quickly, in less than a week. read more

I just my degree, that I earned in Canada, evaluated from ECE and the lower my GPA by 1.27 which make me ineligible for the application I was working on, very bad evaluator in terms of GPA, I wont suggest this company to anyone. Now I have to go with different company to get my degree reevaluated with better gpa. Damaged $170 read more

OMG. ECE "Senior" Evaluator replied the following: "The recognition status must come through the teaching institution and SNIES." The SNIES is from Colombia, I am from Brazil and my documents are all from Brazil. That is how much attention they had with my report. Great job (#ironic) And even I can prove that they gave the Credits to another report that is not on the e-MEC (the Brazilian one). They are bias and they don't change their mind after a report is done. Even if you prove they are wrong. Tooooooo many problems with them. If you have other option, go for it. Look how many people here complain about the same problems from this company. read more

Terrible!!!!!!! DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. This company doesn't know anything about foreign education ! *My husband and I sent his education, he has a college of 4 years of software development and system and hardware administration, and 2 years certificate. We paid $ 160 for Course-by-course and $ 10 for shipping. We needed it for Military . So. This is a AWESOME company reported: Hight School with programming and bla-bla-bla. * We called them and the lady didn't want to answer our questions, She Hung up the phone. She didn't want to help us, transfer to specialist. *How is it possible to give Hight School equivalent ? * Specialist who did it, sent the email, where she explain this . All what she said was WRONG!!! . She doesn't know about foreign education .She ignored certificate and didn't say anything.... * - I'm shocked !! We spent time , money for nothing, terrible service. We are going to use another company. Wowww .... read more

Nightmare experience. Expensive, unflexible, inaccurate and even when I proved they were wrong, they didnt accept to change my final report. Almost cost my job but thankfully WES did a fair report of my FEE. read more

Accuracy issue here, don't go here if you have a degree from Europe, sooo inacurate. I should have read reviews before engaging. They evaluated and gave me a 2.63 GPA as opposed to WES 3.16 GPA. They do not understand the european system, particularly German system. To prove this is a transaction based review, this us my ECE reference ID: F00172 read more

I would not suggest ECE. I submitted ECE for my wife but they generated report in my name. I raised the concern and they said to pay another $60 for new copy and not accepting their poor quality of work. I totally not recommend ECE. Also, they have many cheap evaluation bundle. Please do not choose those are useless. read more

Terrible company and customer service. They did almost nothing for my $250 credentials review. No course descriptions and they calculated my GPA wrong for classes with the ECTS crediting system. I would not recommend at all. read more

I asked for a course by course evaluation and payed 370$ for it because of a lot of required " options ", like 65$ delivery for a letter ?? I needed it absolutely for my application and ordered an express delivery because I was on a deadline. They refund me 95$ because they did a " general " report with written my name, my date of birth and 2 lines stating that I don't have a credit diploma. In France this diploma is valid, I still lost 275$ and couldn't apply to the school because they needed a course by course evaluation only. How is it even legal to set prices like this ? read more

Those starting life in the US. Be warned. I won't recommend ECE to anyone. Consider other evaluation organizations before going to ECE. If not satisfied with their job, you cannot get all the money back. Just a fraction, they will take $50 from your money calling it a processing fee even if they did not do any evaluation. read more

They gave me a very low and unfair GPA they even marked some classes grades as F, which I already passed these classes, how in the world I passed and graduate with F, I would no recommend their services and I would rather use other institutions read more

My review disappeared from this page, so I am posting it again: This review is not meant to be malicious, but only an honest feedback of my experience, which caused me a lot of heartache. For anyone who is considering using ECE, if you have a three (3) year bachelor degree obtained from Europe or any other region, DO NOT use this organization. Please note that they do not take into consideration the different educational systems that exist across the world and they will evaluate your degree without seeking more information from you, in order for them to make an informed and fair assessment. When I received my evaluation, I was devastated. Not only did they lower my GPA significantly, but they also evaluated my Bachelor Degree as a 3 year undergraduate study. I reached out to them and explained in detail (went back to high school) the background of my education and asked them to reconsider. Their response was cold and rigid. It felt like a robot was responding to my email. At that point, I had already paid around $200 for that service. I did not want to lose any more time with them, so I went elsewhere. As I mentioned above, I quickly went back to NACES (there are 18 other members) and picked out another evaluation service. That other service asked me for my high school education and official certificate and for my bachelor degree and diploma. They asked me questions and were able to make an informed assessment. The result was a fair evaluation of my education credentials, which they evaluated as a bachelor degree. Remember that you have studied for years and you worked hard for it. You deserve to get evaluated by a service who is personable, who asks you questions, and make the effort to check your educational history, in order to give you a fair evaluation. This is not only about money (because it is expensive) and time lost; it is about fairness. ECE does not really seem to understand or comprehend that education systems are different throughout the world. Go and read other reviews of ECE and you will realize that a lot of people are complaining about this same issue. It is important that you get fair credit for your hard work. Do not settle for anything less. You deserve fairness. Spend your money elsewhere, your dollar will go a long way. The $200 I spend with ECE was a waste and their evaluation went straight to the shredder, with no regrets. I hope someone in NACES reads these reviews and raise the issue to their board. ECE needs to be re-evaluated for transparency and their understanding/process of evaluations. I am going to be looking at ways to raise this with NACES one way or the P.S. Do not be influenced by ECE's years of "experience" and nice website (their website is attractive and inspires confidence and they have been operating since 1980), that's how they got me. read more

The worst agency EVER!!! Rude, unprofessional and not enough knowledgeable. I called few times to ask what documents I need to provide, they told me, and when I sent them, they called and asked more!!! The did not evaluated my courses like they should be evaluated. I DON'T RECOMMEND!!! read more

After reading dozens of negative reviews, I was very worried and skeptical about the evaluation process. The one thing that most bothered me was the fact that many people left reviews stating ECE awards very low GPAs compared to WES (e.g.GPA of 1.9 as opposed to 2.9 from WES). Some mentioned that an Indian Master's degree was equivalent to a US Bachelor's degree after being evaluated by ECE. I picked ECE because they accept original documents in university sealed envelopes from the students. WES does not accept anything from students, transcripts have to be sent from the native universities directly to WES. One of the universities I attended would not mail anything to the evaluation agencies. They would hand over the transcript to the student and the rest was up to the student in terms of delivering to the credentialing agency. So I did not really have a choice than to pick ECE. I got my results from ECE today and I was pleasantly surprised. Not only did they find my Indian degrees (MA and BLISc) equivalent of US Master's and Bachelor's, they also awarded me a GPA of 3.75. I could not be happier. In addition to the fair grading, they also followed up with me on a regular basis for additional documents they needed for evaluating my transcripts. I was under the impression that I would have to create two separate orders to get two different degrees from two universities evaluated. But I was told I could send everything as one order and both degrees would be evaluated as one report. The customer service person told me I could save money by sending everything as one order, otherwise, it would cost me a lot of money. I couldn't be happier with ECE, I highly recommend them. read more

I started with WES fist, thinking since it's more expensive it will be faster. Turns out very very slow. Decided to go with ECE and very happy with their service! Always can get in touch with someone and received my docs on time. Highly recommend! read more

My wife sent her transcripts to review and they lowered her GPA to less than a 3.0 (she previously had them reviewed by a different place and her GPA was several points higher then 3.0). If they miss or don't understand something, they will just not do it without contacting you. Awful experience, and it seems like others have had a similar experience. Avoid this place. read more

This company is a joke. They translate my bachelor's degree without difficulty. Now when I request a translation of my high school diploma, they be like we can't do it till we hear from your school overseas. Not all countries and education system reply to such request. My high school do not have an email to begin with. Being honest, I told them they will never hear from my high school. Since they already verified my bachelor's degree. They could have known that I surely got a legitimate high school diploma. Where in the world can someone have a bachelor's degree without a high school diploma? Can ECE break this down for me? read more

Awful. They lowered my GPA in a tremendous way. I had my grades converted into US grades before and ECE gave me something completely different and extremely low. I sent them also the transcripts from an MA degree and instead of contacting me with their questions, they finished the evaluation saying that my MA institution wasn't "official" and they refused do the evaluation without consulting me. I would NEVER recommend these people. read more

Don't waste your time. They have a bunch of uneducated people at their call center/ customer service center. Had requested the originals be sent back to me via overnight and requested regular usps delivery of the evaluation to the school. We confirmed this 2 times as I had travel plans and needed my very important originals back before I left for fear of them getting lost. I later find out that the evaluation to the school was sent through overnight mail and they mailed my originals back through snail mail regular USPS! If only these people had the slightest idea how difficult it is for me to request my original documents from my university. Totally unreliable. Do not recommend. read more

I think this is probably the worst experience I had with any service. There is the absolute need to choose a delivery address for the hard-copy (which is completely useless in 2020) and it's very costly for people outside of the US (60$ really? Is the queen gonna deliver that?, as if the service is not pricey enough). On top of that, an operator kindly suggested to select a US based delivery address so that the delivery cost was minimal if I did not care about the hard-copy. When I did so, the payment method kept erroring out, but my credit card was still charged, so all my funds were blocked. The cherry on top is the 2 hours long queue to speak with a $#*!ing operator... CONGRATS! Amazing customer service, absolutely disgusted. It should be 0 stars but it doesn't allow it. read more

They do not understand that a 3 and a 4 year degree can lead to the same outcomes in different countries and that in Germany many degrees are only 3 years and qualify you for a master's. Other agencies acknowledge this situation and qualify you for a master's degree. read more