You got your app in. Yay! You did your best to report everything about your background thoroughly and accurately. Double yay! Now you wander back to that app to admire your amazing work and… you discover an error. OMG NO! Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. These things are near-impossible […]
Continue reading...($) GMAT/GRE waivers: Should you request one?
Waivers for standardized tests were never a “thing” in MBA applications until the pandemic, which obviously disrupted everything, including in-person testing. At this point, in most regions of the world, in-person testing has resumed, and at-home testing has also become more widely available for the GRE, the GMAT, and the TOEFL. However, in the wake […]
Continue reading...($) Do the schools look at all your scores?
The instructions on the MBA applications around reporting your GMAT or GRE test scores have a surprising amount of variation. This comes into play especially if you’re sitting on a score for a test that you took nearly five years ago, and you’re trying to determine if it’s still going to be valid when you […]
Continue reading...($) So this is interesting… Since we’re talking about competition for MBA seats and what it takes to get in.
We’ve been posting about the changing competitive landscape at these top business schools and oh hey, let’s say one more thing about GMAT scores and competition for seats. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends.
Continue reading...($) What if a high GMAT score is a liability?
No no no no no hear us out. Every component of your application communicates something discretely — and the sum total of all elements of your application tells a story. What story is it telling, and how will your target school interpret the elements being presented together, based on how your high GMAT score factors […]
Continue reading...($) How do you evaluate GRE scores? Is “GRE combined” a thing?
We noticed in the Darden Class of 2022 profile that they’ve listed an “average GRE (combined)” score which honestly is a first. We don’t recall any other bschools reporting on GRE total; the schools that report GRE at all — which not all of them are doing yet — are publishing quant and verbal as […]
Continue reading...($) “My test score expires this year. Do I need to retest?”
The Round 1 MBA Countdown with EssaySnark started yesterday! If you want to join the party, you can sign up today and you’ll get caught up on that post, and then not miss any others. Today we’ll talk about what happens if you’re staring at a GMAT score like a ticking clock and wondering what […]
Continue reading...Really sorry but we’re not done with the effing GMAT people yet.
We shared many thoughts yesterday about the massive problems with the propaganda coming out of the GMAT side of this industry. There’s one more thing we have to call out. OMG GMAC Researchers, what are you thinking???? Here’s one of the questions that they asked in this survey of test-takers from January to April 2021: […]
Continue reading...Oh how interesting! The GMAT people think the GMAT is a good thing!
/endsarcasm The GMAC Researchers people recently published results of some questions that they had included in their surveys of test-takers (which is preserved on the snarky server here in case that link ever goes dead), and not surprisingly, they were selective in what they chose to emphasize. While it’s true that “the majority of test […]
Continue reading...($) Why you can’t really rely on class profile data in understanding your own chances
This is what we wrote to a BSer in a recent Comprehensive Profile Review, when examining how their standardized test score stacks up against the competition and what they might expect if applying with that score to the top schools: Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. What we can offer […]
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