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01 Dec 2010, 09:46
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Hi Alex, will you please take a look at my profile and say what you think:
I took GMAT yesterday and got 680 (47Q 36V), an overall 85th
percentile. I have yet received my AWA score, but I believe it shouldn't be
lower than 5.0. I'm 26, from Moscow, Russia. My uneversity major is
international relations. We don't have GPA in Russia, but if I try to scale
it accordingly, I would get around 3.97.
My work experience is the following: right after I graduated in 2006 I
worked for 3 years at an asset management group of one of the leading
Russian investment companies. I started as an associate and then got
promoted to a senior associate. Then I moved to a small industrial company
to a position of a business development director and have been working here
until now. My MBA program choices are HBS, Chicago, Wharton, Stanford and
Columbia. In particular, I'm interested in entrepreneurship courses. I
attended Chicago Booth workshop which was held in Moscow.
I have the following concern: I see that my GMAT score is lower than the
average scores at the schools mentioned. But unfortunately I don't have time
to retake it, since I'm aiming at applying for the 2nd round class 2013 (the
reason for that is it's believed that 3rd round is almost a ban for
international applicants). The good point about my GMAT score, in my
opinion, is that my Q score is not that bad, taking into account that I come
from a liberal arts background.
The question is: should I consider application to those programs and
concentrate on other things like essays, recommendation letters, etc.
Because if I put more effort in improving my GMAT score now, that would mean
I will only apply for class 2014.
I will appreciate your comments and advice. If you need any other
information, please let me know.
I took GMAT yesterday and got 680 (47Q 36V), an overall 85th
percentile. I have yet received my AWA score, but I believe it shouldn't be
lower than 5.0. I'm 26, from Moscow, Russia. My uneversity major is
international relations. We don't have GPA in Russia, but if I try to scale
it accordingly, I would get around 3.97.
My work experience is the following: right after I graduated in 2006 I
worked for 3 years at an asset management group of one of the leading
Russian investment companies. I started as an associate and then got
promoted to a senior associate. Then I moved to a small industrial company
to a position of a business development director and have been working here
until now. My MBA program choices are HBS, Chicago, Wharton, Stanford and
Columbia. In particular, I'm interested in entrepreneurship courses. I
attended Chicago Booth workshop which was held in Moscow.
I have the following concern: I see that my GMAT score is lower than the
average scores at the schools mentioned. But unfortunately I don't have time
to retake it, since I'm aiming at applying for the 2nd round class 2013 (the
reason for that is it's believed that 3rd round is almost a ban for
international applicants). The good point about my GMAT score, in my
opinion, is that my Q score is not that bad, taking into account that I come
from a liberal arts background.
The question is: should I consider application to those programs and
concentrate on other things like essays, recommendation letters, etc.
Because if I put more effort in improving my GMAT score now, that would mean
I will only apply for class 2014.
I will appreciate your comments and advice. If you need any other
information, please let me know.
01 Dec 2010, 12:43
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From a practical standpoint, there's not much you can do about your GMAT score. Yes, it will be a handicap, but don't let that alone prevent you from delaying everything by one year.
Apply this year for Round 2. Do the best you can on the written applications (and interviews if you get them). That's all you can control for now. And then hope for the best.
If you don't get in anywhere, you can always reapply next year and retake the GMAT then as well (and no, there isn't a negative stigma to being a reapplicant - there's always a minority of students at every b-school that were reapplicants).
Apply this year for Round 2. Do the best you can on the written applications (and interviews if you get them). That's all you can control for now. And then hope for the best.
If you don't get in anywhere, you can always reapply next year and retake the GMAT then as well (and no, there isn't a negative stigma to being a reapplicant - there's always a minority of students at every b-school that were reapplicants).
