Official List of GMAT Club Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Official List of GMAT Club Acronyms and Abbreviations: GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test GMAC - Graduate Management Admission Council CAT - Computer Adaptive Test AWA - Analytical Writing Assessment IR - Integrated Reasoning OG - Official Guide for GMAT Review . A study guide published by the GMAT Test creators. It is the only authentic source of gmat type questions. I suspect that the questions have changes too much in flavor compared to the real Test, but still the OG remains a very helpful resource Challenges - Math Challenges - GMAT Club's Tests: https://gmatclub.com/wiki/GMAT_Tests DS - Data Sufficiency PS - Problem Solving RC - Reading Comprehension CR - Critical Reasoning BF CR - Bold Face Critical Reasoning SC - Sentence Correction OA - Official Answer for a question OE - Official Explanation GCD - Greatest Common Divisor HCF - Same as GCD: Highest Common Factor LCM - Lowest Common Multiple Other acronyms BW - Business Week Forum b/w - Between IC - Independent Clause DC - Dependent Clause OT - Off Topic POE - Process of Elimination PR - Princeton Review PM - Private Message ROI - Return On Investment AFAIK - As Far As I Know ASAP - As Soon As Possible BTW - By The Way FYI - For Your Information GFN - Gone For Now GTSY - Glad To See You IC - I See IMO - In My Opinion IMHO - In My Humble Opinion JTLYK - Just To Let You Know KIT - Keep In Touch L8R - Later OTTOMH - Off The Top of My Head SYS - See You Soon TA - Thanks Again TTYL - Talk To you Later WB - Welcome Back MBA-related HSW - Harvard/Stanford/Wharton MBB - McKinsey, BCG, Bain MC - Management Consulting PE - Private Equity WE - Work Experience

kbulse · Answer

I think this thread is not exactly fits your question but anyway
first of all it depends on your knowledge and which stage you are at
second it depends on your type of learning, if your are fast learning type of people this forum will help you very much otherwise one month is not enough (IMO)
how long time past since you graduated from high school and college graduation?
Last point I think is which country you are from or where you get your education, if you are native speaker(english) it might be enough time however if you are international student with not strong command of language you better to get more time

missbrooklyn · Answer

What about ROI? I've been seeing that and it's not on here... 
thanks

bb · Answer

Bump - this thread has been updated.

shadow · Answer

what does GSB stand for? does it refer to stanford graduate school of business?

bb · Answer

Stanford and Chicago used GSB at the end to distinguish their Business schools. (Graduate School of Business)

Chicago GSB is now Booth, so Stanford is the only GSB I am aware of at the moment.

SilverFox · Answer

when people are talking about the schools they were looking into, what does the word "DING" mean?

shadow · Answer

ding = rejected. usually people will post ding without interview, or just ding. i dont think it stands for anything, except maybe the sound a bell makes.

SilverFox · Answer

Thanks for your help shadowsjc, here is another "OMG what a newbie" question?
Can someone help me fully understand this whole thing about the application rounds? I keep seeing people talk about R1 and R2 and I have no idea why?

shadow · Answer

R1, R2, etc., refer to the deadlines for specific schools. the general consensus is that applying before the school's first deadline (R1) offers the best chance of getting in, although that's not so clear to me any more. i do think you get the best chances to get $$$ from schools by applying before the first deadline. most schools have 3 deadlines... applying R3 at these schools is generally not recommended, as most of the spots will have been filled up by then.

ashkanator · Answer

thank you for this post, I am not really text savvy and this post is very helpful to me...

plb · Answer

While these are not directly related to the GMAT, these are some acronyms that I have seen on here before. So, if I may, I would like to add a few:

HSW - Harvard/Stanford/Wharton 
 MBB - McKinsey, BCG, Bain 
 MC - Management Consulting 
 PE - Private Equity

bb · Answer

Thank you plb for providing them in a nice format with bullets. I have updated the list.

ardk · Answer

A few more that are probably worth adding:

IB - Investment Banking

M7 - Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Sloan, Columbia

HSW - Harvard, Stanford, Wharton

$$$ - Full waiver (funding), $$ - Half or decent fee waiver, $ - Small scholarship (Not sure but this is how I interpret)

EC - Extra Curricular

I can't think of anything else at this time.

kdonde · Answer

thanks! was looking for something like this... :-)

Yekrut · Answer

Another great post! I was so lost initially but this really helped clear things up.

HardWorkBeatsAll · Answer

In the profile of most members, there's a school list with W, D, M, I, II etc. I know a few (Waitlisted, Matriculating for e.g.) but what do the others mean?

pgpsm01010 · Answer

Hi, could someone let me know what the abbreviations in parentheses next to schools in users' profile snapshots mean? As an example - School name (D), School name (S), School name (M) etc.

I know (D) is for ding and (A) is for accepted; don't know about the rest

bb · Answer

S - Submitted Application
I - Interviewed
II - Invited to Interview
WL - Waitlisted 
M - Matriculated

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ameyaagrawal · Answer

What are the meanings of WD, A$ on the status of the schools which appears on a person's profile

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