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sh784533

Today a professor mentioned some information during class which might be useful to all prospective students:

1. GMAT is important because it is a standardized test that can evaluate the academic quality of students from all over the world. Adcom knows grading policies vary among different countries/schools thus gpa is not comparable.

2. Now Wharton uses his/her highest GMAT score when evaluates each applicant. However, this policy is likely to change soon and average GMAT will be taken into consideration. The reason is that the school does not want to put in disadvantage those students who cannot afford re-taking GMAT again and again.

I'm not clear how much faculty involves in admission process and where the professor got this information, but I see no harm to pay attention to GMAT because it is the only part in application easy to improve.

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-8-17 11:46:34编辑过]

-- by 会员 littleca (2008/8/16 13:24:00)

I dont quite agree with the reason for using average GMAT score. If an applicant cant afford to take GMAT twice or three times, how could he/she afford an MBA? Those are two incomparable numbers...

cannedpineapple

MBA: loans. Re-taking the GMAT is often not just a problem of paying for the test; but also with regards to being able to afford good instruction.

Besides, I haven't heard this. The professor was probably just speculating.