“What is a low GMAT?” the real answer

September 24, 2011 by EssaySnark

This post is OLD. This was written in 2011. The MBA admissions landscape has changed radically since then. The information in this post is directionally accurate, but what's considered "good enough" for a specific school could be very different today (especially if you're in a competitive candidate pool). Here's a post from Summer 2015 that may offer some more recent perspective.

Another rare Saturday post, but what the heck. We know you LUUUUUV any excuse to not be writing your essays. You surfed on over to check us out (you procrastinator) so EssaySnark is obliging. Yesterday we had a post titled “What is a low GMAT?” But that post was actually semi-insulting to someone who actually…

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Samudra says

September 25, 2011 at 9:54 pm

>You really should get a better website. This page reloads twice for every comment. Irritating UX. Definitely discourages me from commenting 🙁
essaysnark says

September 26, 2011 at 2:18 pm

>LOL Samudra. It discourages you from posting? Hadn't noticed. 🙂

We understand Blogger sucks. But we also have more important things to focus our limited energies on than website stuff. It's free, and it works (basically). Us investing in website stuff would mean that we'd have to charge for access to said website. Which we've considered… And then we'll get a slew of other complaints about that. For now, we'll all just have to suck it up around the suckiness.
Anonymous says

January 3, 2012 at 12:56 am

Totally hear what you're saying but what do you suggest in a bind? Don't want to apply in R3. Should we acknowledge the low scores and say we'll take the GMAT again? Or say we are currently enrolled in a math class? Help!!!
essaysnark says

January 3, 2012 at 2:10 am

@Anonymous, impossible to say in a vacuum of not knowing your full profile and how you've handled the other essays – but either/both of your ideas can work (provided you really WILL take it again and really ARE enrolled in a class!!).