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14 Mar 2018, 18:48
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AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GMAT - RISE OF THE GRE
For decades, those who wanted to get their MBA from any respectable school in the US had just one choice: the GMAT. Not anymore!
More and more MBA programs are accepting the GRE instead of the GMAT for admissions applications. This allows candidates with more vague post-graduate plans to opt for the GRE rather than the GMAT. A-list MBA programs, including those at Harvard, MIT, Instituto de Empresa, and CEIBS, accept the GRE test for admissions and their admissions officers have publicly notified the applicants that they have no preferences when it comes to the standardised test taking.
Confused whether you should you take the GMAT or GRE for MBA admission? While the GMAT is designed specifically for business school applicants, the GRE is a test that can gain students admittance to graduate programs across almost all subjects, including the MBA. Also for MBA applicants, if you already hold a GRE score, you may not need to take the GMAT in order to get into certain business schools. Similarly, if you are daunted by the GMAT and think the GRE might be easier for you, then you may have the choice of doing either test, depending on which programs you are targeting.
Some students excel at the GMAT and others at the GRE. My advise would be to take a practise test and consider opting for the exam in which you would naturally excel! GMAT no longer holds the monopoly. Some schools such as Texas A and M(Mays) and Olin have a lot of candidates who got in with a GRE. Coming back to statistics, lets see how many candidates at Top B-schools were admitted with a GRE.
| Percentage of Students Admitted With the GRE! | |||
| School | % GRE 2015 | % GRE 2016 | Y-O-Y Change |
| Boston (Questrom) | 34% | 42% | 8% |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 15% | 39% | 24% |
| Illinois | 23% | 36% | 13% |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 12% | 35% | 23% |
| Washington (Olin) | 28% | 34% | 6% |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 34% | 32% | -2% |
| Georgia (Terry) | N/A | 31% | N/A |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 14% | 30% | 16% |
| Maryland (Smith) | 34% | 29% | -5% |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 26% | 27% | 1% |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 10% | 23% | 13% |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 15% | 23% | 8% |
| Florida (Hough) | 17% | 23% | 6% |
| Yale SOM | 23% | 22% | -1% |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 22% | 22% | 0% |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | N/A | 22% | N/A |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 16% | 21% | 5% |
| UC-Irvine (Merage) | 12% | 20% | 8% |
| MIT (Sloan) | 18% | 18% | 0% |
| Texas (McCombs) | 15% | 18% | 3% |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 18% | 16% | -2% |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 10% | 16% | 6% |
| George Washington | N/A | 16% | N/A |
| UC-Davis | 15% | 16% | 1% |
| Michigan (Ross) | 14% | 14% | 0% |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 12% | 14% | 2% |
| Rochester (Simon) | 18% | 14% | -4% |
| Stanford GSB | 16% | 13% | -3% |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 7% | 13% | 6% |
| NYU (Stern) | N/A | 13% | N/A |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 13% | 13% | 0% |
| USC (Marshall) | N/A | 13% | N/A |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 12% | 11% | -1% |
| Rice (Jones) | 8% | 11% | 3% |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 9% | 11% | 2% |
| Rutgers | N/A | 11% | 11% |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 11% | 10% | -1% |
| Wisconsin | 10% | 10% | 0% |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 9% | 10% | 1% |
| Penn (Wharton) | 7% | 9% | 2% |
| Iowa (Tippie) | 10% | 9% | -1% |
| Virginia (Darden) | N/A | 8% | N/A |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 10% | 8% | -2% |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 4% | 8% | 4% |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 4% | 8% | 4% |
| Columbia | 8% | 7% | -1% |
| Washington (Foster) | 2% | 6% | 4% |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 7% | 6% | -1% |
Kudos to ETS team who have worked pretty hard to ensure that we get a substitute to the GMAT. Most business schools opt to accept GRE scores as an alternative to the GMAT so as to widen their pool of applicants, and bring in students with non-traditional backgrounds – those who do not have backgrounds in finance, accounting, economics and so on. This diversity is positively encouraged at top business schools.
Yes Stone! We are interested. Can you tell us about the average GRE scores at the Top-MBA programs around the world? Or when it comes to MBA decisions, what GRE scores will we need to make the cut at our dream b-school?
Well, here you go :-
| Average GRE Scores at Top-MBA programs! | ||||
| School | GRE Verbal | GRE Quant | GRE Total | GRE Writing |
| Stanford GSB | 164 | 165 | 329 | 4.9 |
| Yale SOM | 165 | 163 | 328 | 4.8 |
| Virginia (Darden) | 164 | 162 | 326 | 4.7 |
| NYU (Stern) | 163 | 161 | 324 | 4.6 |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 161 | 163 | 324 | 4.5 |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 160 | 163 | 323 | 4.0 |
| Michigan (Ross) | 161 | 161 | 322 | 5.0 |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 161 | 159 | 320 | 4.7 |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 161 | 159 | 320 | 4.2 |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 159 | 161 | 320 | 4.5 |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 163 | 157 | 320 | 4.3 |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 160 | 159 | 319 | 4.4 |
| Texas (McCombs) | 160 | 159 | 319 | N/A |
| Wisconsin | 160 | 158 | 318 | 4.5 |
| Washington (Foster) | 159 | 158 | 317 | 4.4 |
| Iowa (Tippie) | 154 | 162 | 316 | N/A |
| UC-Irvine (Merage) | 155 | 161 | 316 | 4.0 |
| Georgia (Terry) | 159 | 157 | 316 | 4.0 |
| UC-Davis | 156 | 160 | 316 | 3.8 |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 158 | 157 | 315 | 4.0 |
| Washington (Olin) | 158 | 157 | 315 | 4.1 |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 159 | 156 | 315 | 5.0 |
| Rochester (Simon) | 157 | 158 | 315 | 3.9 |
| Boston (Questrom) | 158 | 157 | 315 | N/A |
| Illinois | 157 | 155 | 315 | 4.0 |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 158 | 156 | 314 | 4.1 |
| Rice (Jones) | 157 | 157 | 314 | 4.0 |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 158 | 156 | 314 | 4.0 |
| Rutgers | 155 | 159 | 314 | N/A |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 157 | 156 | 313 | 4.2 |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 157 | 156 | 313 | N/A |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 157 | 155 | 312 | 4.1 |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 152 | 160 | 312 | 4.0 |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 156 | 155 | 311 | 4.1 |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 154 | 157 | 311 | 3.7 |
| Maryland (Smith) | 155 | 155 | 310 | 3.9 |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 154 | 155 | 309 | 4.0 |
| George Washington | 156 | 153 | 309 | 4.1 |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 154 | 154 | 308 | 4.0 |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 155 | 152 | 307 | 4.0 |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 153 | 152 | 305 | 3.8 |
14 Mar 2018, 19:50
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Thank you for putting this together and I think there are many benefits to taking the GRE, especially if you're just not getting traction with the GMAT. However I did want to point out that INSEAD only accepts the GMAT... unless it is not offered in your country.
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15 Mar 2018, 00:20
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Very nice article, Stone! Kudos! Thanks much for putting this together. GRE's acceptability among business schools is increasing with each passing year.
From where you collected this data? I would suggest you to indicate the source of the info below data tables.
From where you collected this data? I would suggest you to indicate the source of the info below data tables.
