{"id":29543,"date":"2015-07-14T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=29543"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:08:10","slug":"29543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/29543\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Score \u2013 Growing in Importance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From The Staff of MBA Admit.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To benefit from our free webinars, click <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/\">https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent Webinar Topics: Getting Into the Top-10 MBA Programs; Overriding a Low GPA; Overriding a Low GMAT Score<\/p>\n<p>For a free Profile Evaluation, fill out the profile evaluation form on our homepage at <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/mbaadmit.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>MBA Admit.com: Proudly, one of the most affordable MBA admissions consulting companies<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nGMAT Score \u2013 Growing in Importance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been asked many times recently whether I have noticed a trend with regard to the importance of GMAT scores in the admissions outcomes of candidates who have applied to Top-10 schools.  Some notable trends have been school-specific.  At schools like Columbia and Harvard, the admissions committees seemed to become pickier in 2013-2015 about acceptable scores and it seemed harder to gain admission at those two schools if candidates scored below 660.  In such cases, a candidate needed to work hard to demonstrate credentials that helped compensate for the less-than-ideal GMAT score performance.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the quant portion of the GMAT score seemed to come under more scrutiny at Top-15 schools.  If you have not scored above the 70th percentile in quant, you should reassess well whether to re-test, and if not, you should be prepared to offer the admissions committee other evidence that you can handle the rigors of their program.<\/p>\n<p>Many candidates mistakenly underestimate the importance of the GMAT score. Try to get a great score so that it is not functioning as a weakness in your application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need Assistance with your application?  Contact us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)<br \/>\nPresident, MBA Admit.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><br \/>\nEmail: info@mbaadmit.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Staff of MBA Admit.com, https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com To benefit from our free webinars, click https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/ Recent Webinar Topics: Getting Into the Top-10 MBA Programs; Overriding a Low GPA; Overriding a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,368,11,6,1242,775,113,243,544,736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-mobile-blog","category-mba","category-current-events","category-mbaadmit","category-admission-consultants","category-applications","category-blog","category-data-insights","category-quant-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29545,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29543\/revisions\/29545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}