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It depends.
Let me tell you a true story. I knew a female friend, divorced from her Japanese husband, had an 8-years-old boy, had no permanent job in the US, and determined to get in a MBA program in the States. She camed to the US, enrolled in a language school, brought her mom here to take care of her son, and focused on improving her English. Her TOEFL score was ONLY 550/667 and her GMAT was around 550, too.
So she only applied for programs which require either no GMAT scores or low GMAT scores. Eventually she was accepted by U of Alabama. Meanwhile, she was remarried. A new husband was still a Japanese gentleman. So she sent her mom and son back to China, and went to Alabam herself.
She was the only Chinese student in her class and her performance was at the bottom of the class at the beginning. At first, she could understand neither the teaching of her professors, nor the questions and answers from her classmates. But she ploughed through, relying on her perseverance and dilligence. At the end of every class, she asked the professor questions she did not understand during the class. She borrowed and copies the notes from classmates. She burnt late night oil at the library and at her apartment, researching and reading. She asked me for English-related questions all the time.
Gradually, she found that she can understand the concepts and explanations provided by the professors. She started to participate in the group discussions with her classmates. Her classmates started to ask her for suggestions to their problems.
When she graduated, she was at the top of her class. Her professors all commented that she was the most dilligent and the most intelligent student they had every taught. They all wrote glorious recommendation letters for her.
After graduation, she went to Japan, lived with her husband, brought back her son, and worked in the area of international trade, mostly between Japan and China.
The moral of the story is: you might not have the best GMAT or TOEFL scores; you might not have a perfect GPA; you might not even have fluent English; but as long as you have determination and perseverance, you will have a shot at your personal goal in the end! |
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