GMAT一站惨败，对申请是致命的吗？

toto2004

Usually, the school really cares about your highest GMAT score. The most important is your back-ground, essays, leadership experiences, fitness to school. Take another test when you are fully prepared.

fayer

You are over-worried. GMAT is only a small part of the whole application. B-school admits people with business sense, not people with high scores in test. GMAT is only a test to make sure you can successfully pass the two-year tough academic study.

Be easy and if you believe you can get better, just have another try.

ddff

GMAT is a big part in this game, especially when the other aspects of your package are average, or you want to secure scholarship. I strongly suggest you to retake and make a score of 720 or so. (well, beyond 720, the marginal effect of GMAT is not significant)

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-5-23 22:57:57编辑过]

苞米

以下是引用ddff在2007-5-23 22:57:00的发言：
GMAT is a big part in this game, ----VERY TRUE, nothing can be MORE important than you GMAT score (especially for a chinese applicant).

well, beyond 720, the marginal effect of GMAT is not significant)-----NOT TRUE. There's a huge difference between a 720 and a 760 no matter where you wana apply (I am talking about decent MBA programs). When you make it above 760, the marginal benfit is more about the chance for a scholarhip rather than the admission.  

cnvictory

don't worry about GMAT too much unless you want scholarship from top b-schools.

yahooyahoo

Most of the school only consider the highest one. So take one more time GMAT

fayer

I wonder why people always take Gmat scores in priority? Especially for our Chinese, this  cannot make us different. Just imaging, among the applicants with 700+ from China, if two choices left for you, you want to be high score or unique?

And about unique, I think every applicant can make it no matter your work experience, life experience, personality or interests. So be easy with the scores if not far away from 700, but put much much efforts to find out your unique shining point.  

苞米

以下是引用fayer在2007-5-24 12:00:00的发言：

I wonder why people always take Gmat scores in priority? Especially for our Chinese, this  cannot make us different. Just imaging, among the applicants with 700+ from China, if two choices left for you, you want to be high score or unique?

And about unique, I think every applicant can make it no matter your work experience, life experience, personality or interests. So be easy with the scores if not far away from 700, but put much much efforts to find out your unique shining point.  

If "every applicant can/will make him/herself unique", it follows that we should put even more weight on the GMAT score: since it's much easier for you to impress the ADComs with a decent GMAT score than by those elusive "unique qualities".

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-5-24 22:50:53编辑过]

ddff

sorry 不能苟同楼上的楼上的。
竞争是激烈的，所以更不能输在起跑线上。更何况GMAT是package中最容易短期提高的。而且也不是要求楼主考750+，那样的话会影响花其他方面的
时间和精力。至于uniqueness,
这是个见仁见智没有客观标准的东西，你觉得你很unique了，但是你不知道和你竞争的人是什么proflie
和怎样表述的，你也不知道今年targe student pool
里缺什么样的人。所以还是要稳扎稳打，把能落实的先落实。举个我切身的例子，我面试一所M7学校时，谈的非常不错，但是最后面试官问了这么一个问题：do
you think your GMAT score reflects your real ability in academics
？他觉得我的分数只是刚好平均线，但又很想录取我，所以希望我能说给个理由说服他，比如我其实很有提高的空间blah blah.
当然如果楼主是申非 top 15的学校, 而且不要求奖金，GMAT 700-对于录取也不会有坏的影响。

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-5-24 12:45:04编辑过]