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What are the scores?
All schools say they take into account your highest score, so it shouldn't matter.
Sometimes people say adcoms will see it and it may raise doubts, other times a clerk may just verify your highest score before sending your entire file to the adcom for review.
Its hard to say, when you take the test 3years later and do worse. If I saw both scores I would just think you're rusty, but it may never be an issue.
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What are the scores?
All schools say they take into account your highest score, so it shouldn't matter.
Sometimes people say adcoms will see it and it may raise doubts, other times a clerk may just verify your highest score before sending your entire file to the adcom for review.
Its hard to say, when you take the test 3years later and do worse. If I saw both scores I would just think you're rusty, but it may never be an issue.

Yeah, I shouldn't worry about it too much since the schools say they will consider the highest score.

My first score: 700 total (77% quant, 93% verbal)
Today: 690 total (68% quant, 89% verbal)

I'm pretty shocked at my score, given that I studied pretty hard and did reasonably well on the MGMAT CAT exams. Oh well. No way I'm retaking it. Just gonna focus on other parts of my application.
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yeah, 10 points? nothing to worry about, if anything its assures them that you are the real deal and not a fluke 90%ile scorer
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yeah, 10 points? nothing to worry about, if anything its assures them that you are the real deal and not a fluke 90%ile scorer

It's my quant I'm worried about. Virtually all the top schools recommend getting at least 80% in both sections. Granted 77% is pretty close to 80%, but i come from a humanities background, so i felt the need to prove that i have good enough quant skills for these programs.
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