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Taking GMAT During College? [#permalink] New post   31 May 2007, 19:19
I would like to get opinions on the following line of thought.

It seems like the best time to take the GMAT is sometime during the last two summers before college graduation. It's good for 5 years from the application deadline, so this will give me up to 3 years of experience before applying. I don't plan on working more than 3 years before MBA school.

I will be at my peak quantitatively... at least from a GMAT perspective. I will have had 2 stats courses, 3 econ courses, 2 accounting courses, a finance course, college calc, and high school math is still fairly fresh in my mind.

I'm probably close to my peak from a verbal standpoint. I've taken English, business communication, philosophy, and several liberal arts courses.

I have the time during the summer between my sophomore and junior years to devote a significant amount of time to preparing, including a GMAT course. I plan on interning for an I-Bank between my junior and senior years and don't want to be distracted from devoting my full energies, since this may be where I end up working full-time before MBA school.

This game plan seems contrary to what I've read on other online posts. So, I'd appreciate any thoughts you have on the wisdom of this approach.

Thanks!
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[#permalink] New post   31 May 2007, 20:32
I would wait. Yes, the score is valid for 5 years, and lots of people "plan" to go to b-school within a few years of graduating, but so much is going to change for you in the first few years of your career...you won't lose out by waiting to take the GMAT, but you'll be peeved if the score expires and you took it for nothing. There is no hurry at all. Wait a while, and see what you end up wanting to do down the road.
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Re: Taking GMAT During College? [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2007, 00:53
Anhydrosis wrote:
I would like to get opinions on the following line of thought.

It seems like the best time to take the GMAT is sometime during the last two summers before college graduation. It's good for 5 years from the application deadline, so this will give me up to 3 years of experience before applying. I don't plan on working more than 3 years before MBA school.

I will be at my peak quantitatively... at least from a GMAT perspective. I will have had 2 stats courses, 3 econ courses, 2 accounting courses, a finance course, college calc, and high school math is still fairly fresh in my mind.

I'm probably close to my peak from a verbal standpoint. I've taken English, business communication, philosophy, and several liberal arts courses.

I have the time during the summer between my sophomore and junior years to devote a significant amount of time to preparing, including a GMAT course. I plan on interning for an I-Bank between my junior and senior years and don't want to be distracted from devoting my full energies, since this may be where I end up working full-time before MBA school.

This game plan seems contrary to what I've read on other online posts. So, I'd appreciate any thoughts you have on the wisdom of this approach.

Thanks!


Take it after sophmore year if u are positive that you are going to bschool 3 years after college but I'd recommend padding your resume during summer after sophmore year to make sure u get a good bank for the future.
Also, a great time to take the gmat is after senior year b/c u should have plenty of time to prepare during ur last semester/ summer after senior year and before u go for training at a bank. thats what im doing at least and we will know in a few days whether that was a good strategy...
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Follow-Up Question [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2007, 06:04
nxrfelix, I have an great internship with a Fortune 500 company this summer and was thinking about working as a research assistant at Michigan's Ross B-School next summer. This would give me some flexibility since I plan to take an early summer strategic planning course offered in China through Ross. Will the research position look bad to a prospective I-Bank or Consulting Firm for the following summer?

Although I didn't mention it in my earlier post, I'm thinking about taking the June LSAT the following summer... as I might want to do a combined MBA/JD. Some top schools, like Michigan, don't require the normal MBA experience if you're dual enrolled. I don't know how many other top schools have this view.

Any insight would be appreciated.
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[#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2007, 15:54
I'm in a similar position with you guys. I just graduated this May with a degree in accounting, and I'm signed up to take the GMAT in mid July because I have to study for the CPA exam starting in late July - August while beginning work full time.

Anhydrosis, if you take it now, you'll have until 2012 to apply to graduate schools, and assuming that you're graduating in 09, the most experience you can have is 3 years going into the application process before your GMAT score expires. So waiting one more year could be beneficial to you in the future if you still don't know what you want to do or if you have to reapply in a later year or something.

Otherwise, I feel like it's a good move if you feel like you can do well. What's there to lose? Besides the 250 bucks if you decide not to get your MBA after all.

nxrfelix when are you signed up to take your GMAT?

I will have studied for just under 2 months by the time I take mine in July.. and I'm hoping that's enough time.
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[#permalink] New post   03 Jun 2007, 22:34
plaguerabbit wrote:
I'm in a similar position with you guys. I just graduated this May with a degree in accounting, and I'm signed up to take the GMAT in mid July because I have to study for the CPA exam starting in late July - August while beginning work full time.

Anhydrosis, if you take it now, you'll have until 2012 to apply to graduate schools, and assuming that you're graduating in 09, the most experience you can have is 3 years going into the application process before your GMAT score expires. So waiting one more year could be beneficial to you in the future if you still don't know what you want to do or if you have to reapply in a later year or something.

Otherwise, I feel like it's a good move if you feel like you can do well. What's there to lose? Besides the 250 bucks if you decide not to get your MBA after all.

nxrfelix when are you signed up to take your GMAT?

I will have studied for just under 2 months by the time I take mine in July.. and I'm hoping that's enough time.


I guess if JD/MBA is smth u want than take the test now...
Im signed up to take mine on June 8th
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