Number of Score Reports Sent on mba.com

Question

Can someone explain the significance of number sent column in the GMAT Scores section on mba.com? Why the number is greater than 5 as the request made to sent scores is supposed to get fulfilled for only 5 schools? I did not send any additional reports. I can see the a list of 21 schools. I have taken multiple attempts.

bb · Answer

Hi  natasha760 .

I don't have this in my profile anymore unfortunately ... I assume it is not the number of reports you have sent over the years since that would require at least 5 attempts.... are those even the schools you have selected or completely random (Just trying to see if it is a bug)

P.S. One cool and helpful feature GMAC does have is they tell you your percentile for each program you sent the report... can you see those indicators/percentiles?

natasha760 · Answer

Thankyou for your reply.Yes I have taken multiple attempts and they are not random school but the ones I chose. Just that I do not recall which schools I selected for which attempt. Here comes the obvious question- If these are reports sent across over the years, the number in this column should increase but it is declining.

bb · Answer

Oh... weird. Could it be that the 5-year expiration has passed? Meaning you sent some more than 5 years and and thus the score has expired and they have removed it as the result?

(purely guessing at this point)

natasha760 · Answer

No! It is a valid GMAT Score and what i feel is they have mentioned schools either from other attempts for this attempt or perhaps people who shared reports with them . Not sure though! I have requested mba.com for a clarification. Let's see what they respond! Thank you for your inputs though!

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi natasha760,

Have you taken the old GMAT? If you have, score reporting works differently for those tests. Specifically, if you send a recent score report to 5 schools,  those 5 schools will also receive every earlier score  (from every test taken in the last 5 years). For example, if you send scores A and B to 5 schools (each, and each school is different), the first score would actually be sent 10 times even though you sent it only 5 times. This is also why the first score would show 10 and the more recent score would show 5 (a decline).

Of course, this doesn't apply if you're looking at new GMAT ("Focus Edition") scores.

bb · Answer

This is weird but totally makes sense. Crazy!

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Definitely let us know what you find out when you get a response from the folks at GMAC.

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