郁闷，刚考完的GMAT710

刚刚饿着肚子考完，按完报告成绩，e，710

心里哇凉哇凉的

对Kellogg情有独钟，这回只能望而兴叹了

k，好郁闷啊

not bad

LZ背景介绍下啊

看看有没有戏

这个成绩足以

可以尝试啊，我700都不到呐

Hi all,

I posted this article as a reply to a GMAT question last week but thought others on the board might be interested in it as well. 

The Myth of the 800 GMAT

The maximum GMAT score 800, but the best score is far lower, as MBA Admissions advisor Avi Gordon, explains.

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I had a MBA admissions client recently who I’ll call Tim, and when Tim and I got talking about his admissions profile he told me he’d scored 720 on the GMAT, and then retaken the test (and scored the same again). I nearly dropped the phone. “Why would anyone ever want to retake a 720 GMAT?” I gasped.

The truth is, I know why. Candidates think the higher they score, the better their chances of admission. It seems obvious but is it right? Yes, of course the GMAT is crucial. It tells Adcom about an applicant’s intellectual and cognitive skills, and is particularly useful in allowing easy comparison across institutions and undergraduate majors, to some extent across cultures. Furthermore, every 10-point gain adds to candidates’ admissions prospects, and a move of 30 or so fundamentally changes which b-schools they can legitimately hope to get into.

But this is true only up to a certain level, about the 700-740 range. A higher score has diminishing returns and can even – believe it or not – harm one’s chances.

Why? As I told Tim, there are two reasons. First, although the MBA is a post-graduate university degree, it is primarily professional education. Its fundamental task is to prepare and place people in business management positions, not academic positions. Managers need to be smart but, as everyone knows, the cleverest people don’t necessarily make the best managers, nor best entrepreneurs, or bankers, or consultants. Jack Welch, Herb Kelleher, George Soros, Ted Turner, etc., are smart enough. But they are not Einsteins. MBA Adcoms are not looking for brainiacs.

The second, related, reason is it takes a mix of talents to get admitted to a competitive school. The operative term here is “mix”. Academic ability is just one of many items considered, along with career potential, leadership potential, team player profile, work experience, volunteer experience, profile diversity, and so on. Academic ability is definitely a requirement, but so are many other attributes. This reflects the multifaceted demands of a real business career.

This explains why an ultra-high GMAT can be harmful. Scoring in the super bracket (750 or above) means that you are, by definition, in the 99^th percentile. People who score like that are often better pure scientists or philosophers, than managers. It’s a stereotype, but the absent-minded professor is commonly associated with being a poor people-person and a poor manager. If you get a very high score, Adcom will be absolutely sure to thoroughly check and almost disbelieve that you are also a leader and team player and can manage adversity and do all the practical things you need to get done in a business day.

So, at around the 700 level, a threshold is reached (depending on GPA results and other possible variables) where Adcom can safely put a check mark next to your academic ability, and move on to see what else you offer. If you are too far below the school’s average GMAT, nothing else you are, do, or say will count. But once you hit the threshold, it’s pointless to keep knocking in that nail. A higher GMAT won’t check any other box than “intellectually capable” and chances are it’s already checked at 700. A super-score is not going to help you if your references are so-so and your essays are undeveloped. Adcom prefers “balanced good” to “unbalanced excellent.”

This also explains why there is more malleability in the system than most candidates realize. If the rest of your application is good and your undergraduate record is in the right range, you can be up to 40 or 50 points below the school’s published GMAT average (providing you are not too lopsidedly in Math or Verbal.) Obviously, the published average means that half of accepted applicant’s scores are below that mark.

It makes sense to be very concerned with the GMAT until it is within the guidelines of your target program. Then forget about it and spend time on other aspects of your application.

BW Business Schools
                

谢谢特瑞张的长文，虽然好长，但我还是认真看完了

它说的应该是事实，但我怕在这样一个时代——尤其是今年，竞争肯定更激烈——710没啥竞争力吧。。。

昨天翻了翻08年录取人的背景资料，基本都在750一线，心寒啊

各位捎带手帮我看看我的背景今年申请合适么，谢谢了：）

05年毕业的国内top2的金融本科，gpa3.3，t 105，g 710，在四大干了两年审计，07年去一家IT公司帮助完成了上市，一直工作到现在（主要做招股说明书、ipo模型，现在做预算模型和其他一些财务和分析的事），资格证书有一个中国准精算师，还有一个FRM（风险管理）的证书

另外请问一下，如果是各位的话，会重新再考一次么？

我想再考一次一方面觉得有可能有提高的空间，另一方面我的essay还没动，awa的成绩也还早着呢，我怕我第一轮赶不上了。。。

可以了，追求分数只能说明对于其他方面没有把握。  如果这样的话，看起来T也得重考了，开个玩笑咯。