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Concentration: Finance, Economics
GMAT 1: 670 Q39 V41
GMAT 2: 730 Q49 V41
BOMBED quant today...need advice.
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07 Nov 2013, 19:19
OK, so I took my GMAT today, got an 8 on the IR, a 41 on verbal (had been averaging 47-48 on prac exams) and then got a 39 on quant (had been around 46 on prac exams). Averaged out to a 670 final score, about 80 lower than my average on pracs. So I'm pretty much inconsolable right now. Still, I need advice. Now let's say I take the exam again and do better on quant, say a 45 even. How does this look to B schools? Are they going to basically say "well he bombed the first time, so he probably got lucky the 2nd time"? Everything I'm reading online is pretty much saying if you don't get to the 80th percentile in both sections you're pretty much screwed.
I can't leave the Boston area, and I have to start this coming year, or it's going to be too late for 'life' reasons. So this is my one shot. I'm feeling like I might have blown it today, but hoping there's something I can do to salvage this. I never worked in the financial field, so I can't lean on that, and my transcripts aren't heavy on math/science, so I can't lean on that either. I was hoping to do well on quant to show that I can do the math/abstract reasoning. For what it's worth I was extremely adept in math/abstract logic in school, so it's not an issue of skill. Which makes this suck even more; I was doing the math you see in quant, literally in 6th grade. Alright I'm starting to ramble, and I'm just getting upset again so I'm going to stop, I hope someone can offer some advice here.
For reference I'm applying to HBS, Sloan, BC, BU, and Northeastern.