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Same ol story: High verbal, low quant. Need advice!
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16 Feb 2011, 11:54
16 Feb 2011, 11:54
Hey all,
I took the GMAT for the second time about a year ago and scored a 700, with 43 verbal (95%) and 42 quant (67%). I was pretty surprised that my quant didn't improve, realtive to the first test, where I scored a 650 and had a 69% quant (same raw score, though). My undergrad was in Economics from a Private Top 20 and I had a ton of quant-heavy courses, of which I earned a mixture of Bs and As with a couple bad ones here and there, so will this low quant score hurt me? I think I proved that I can handle the quant requirements with my undergrad courses but I'm really not sure.
To be honest, the thought of studying for the GMAT again is daunting and frankly, I don't know how well I'd do again considering it's been over a year since I've looked at the material. I've been working on my extracurriculars a lot to balance out some stuff though. I'm also interested in getting into finance post-MBA, so I'm worrried about that as well...Anyone have any advice?
I took the GMAT for the second time about a year ago and scored a 700, with 43 verbal (95%) and 42 quant (67%). I was pretty surprised that my quant didn't improve, realtive to the first test, where I scored a 650 and had a 69% quant (same raw score, though). My undergrad was in Economics from a Private Top 20 and I had a ton of quant-heavy courses, of which I earned a mixture of Bs and As with a couple bad ones here and there, so will this low quant score hurt me? I think I proved that I can handle the quant requirements with my undergrad courses but I'm really not sure.
To be honest, the thought of studying for the GMAT again is daunting and frankly, I don't know how well I'd do again considering it's been over a year since I've looked at the material. I've been working on my extracurriculars a lot to balance out some stuff though. I'm also interested in getting into finance post-MBA, so I'm worrried about that as well...Anyone have any advice?
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Re: Same ol story: High verbal, low quant. Need advice!
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16 Feb 2011, 12:11
16 Feb 2011, 12:11
Are you planning on applying to start school this fall or in fall 2012? If you're looking at R3 deadlines for this year, it's probably too late to make huge improvements. If you're looking forward to the next go-round of R1 and R2 deadlines, I would recommend studying some more over the next 3-4 months then taking a summer GMAT to set you up for applying in the fall.
I was in a somewhat similar situation to yours--when I took the GMAT in late August my Q46 (75%) was significantly lower than I expected based on my MGMAT exams, which led me to believe I'd made some dumb mistakes that I could have fixed on a second GMAT. Based on the advice I got from several Haas and Stanford students, I decided not to take it again and instead put my time into my essays for R1 deadlines. I got a little worried when the adcom member at a Haas info session said they preferred students with at least 80% on quant, so I guess the fact that I got good grades in my undergrad quant courses (calculus, stat, engineering, physics, chem, etc.) was enough to prove to them I could handle quant material.
Then again it all depends on what schools you're looking at. A 700 may be perfectly fine if you want to go to a top 20 as opposed to a top 10 school, or if the rest of your profile is very strong.
I was in a somewhat similar situation to yours--when I took the GMAT in late August my Q46 (75%) was significantly lower than I expected based on my MGMAT exams, which led me to believe I'd made some dumb mistakes that I could have fixed on a second GMAT. Based on the advice I got from several Haas and Stanford students, I decided not to take it again and instead put my time into my essays for R1 deadlines. I got a little worried when the adcom member at a Haas info session said they preferred students with at least 80% on quant, so I guess the fact that I got good grades in my undergrad quant courses (calculus, stat, engineering, physics, chem, etc.) was enough to prove to them I could handle quant material.
Then again it all depends on what schools you're looking at. A 700 may be perfectly fine if you want to go to a top 20 as opposed to a top 10 school, or if the rest of your profile is very strong.
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Re: Same ol story: High verbal, low quant. Need advice!
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16 Feb 2011, 12:20
16 Feb 2011, 12:20
I should have mentioned that I'm going to apply in the fall. Round 3 is too big of a crapshoot for my liking...
I'm looking realistically at applying in Round 1 to Ross, Darden, Yale SOM, McCombs, Duke and Vandy. I wish schools broke down their Middle 80% GMAT by Quant/Verbal as well in addition to aggregate score.
I'm looking realistically at applying in Round 1 to Ross, Darden, Yale SOM, McCombs, Duke and Vandy. I wish schools broke down their Middle 80% GMAT by Quant/Verbal as well in addition to aggregate score.
