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($) Low GMAT Round 2 application tactics: Remediation

December 27, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

If you’re applying to business school with a subpar GMAT or GRE score, either a low total score or a significantly low subscore especially if it’s on the quant side, then in addition to the preamble talk we gave you yesterday about school strategy, there are in fact steps you can take to improve your […]

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($) “My GMAT (or GRE) score is not what I wanted. What do I do now, since Rd 2 is happening?”

December 26, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We totally understand the stress and frustration that can go along with a GMAT or GRE result that wasn’t at the level you expected. You’ve probably tested multiple times, and you also took multiple practice exams, and thought you were going to be fine. Yet still, for whatever reason, that score has not soared to […]

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Filed Under: low GMAT, planning your strategy, selecting schools

The shame of a low GMAT score

April 26, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We want to talk about something here today that we’re guilty of contributing to — inadvertently, yes, but we’ve done it. It’s the shame that many BSers feel about their performance on the MBA admissions test. We see this in the opposite manifestation: When someone has done well on the GMAT, they’re quick to volunteer […]

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Filed Under: general snark, GMAT/GRE, low GMAT Tagged With: cheerleading

($) “If I’m really really really really really excited about a school do you think they will let me in???”

January 3, 2019 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

This question coming of course from a Brave Supplicant with a really low GMAT. And the answer is…. actually, yes! Or at least, maybe! Depending on the school, and particularly if you’re trying in Round 1. In Round 2, it’s much less common for even the friendliest most culture-driven schools to be quite so accommodating. […]

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Filed Under: low GMAT, reapplying

($) Explaining a low GMAT or GRE score in your MBA apps

August 2, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

Tuck adcom answer about optional essay on low GRE

You know your GMAT (or GRE) score is low. You’ve debated whether to take the test again, but it’s August. You’re getting stressed about deadlines coming. What if you just write the optional essay about your low score? Shouldn’t that be sufficient? You can tell the adcom that you’ll take the test again if they […]

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Filed Under: GRE specific info, low GMAT, optional essay

($) If you don’t think you can do better on the GMAT

March 19, 2018 by EssaySnark

When talking about what score is “good enough” for getting into a top MBA program, we said this: If your score is somewhere in between a 700 and a 770 and if you think you can score higher on the GMAT… then we strongly encourage you to suck it up and make it happen. If...


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Filed Under: GMAT/GRE, low GMAT, retest strategy Tagged With: cheerleading

You made it! Now do this. (Reality Check Dub)

January 19, 2018 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

We often offer a rah-rah post right around this time like the one from last week, directed to all those BSers who are coming off the crush of deadlines and the rush of the holiday, and they sit back and look around and wonder what to do with themselves. We usually say, “Get a hobby.” […]

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($) Low GMAT? Low GPA? Please don’t say these things in your essays.

August 17, 2017 by EssaySnark Leave a Comment

First of all, if your GMAT is low, then we don’t recommend writing an optional essay about it at all. The optional essay is meant to explain, and thereby neutralize, issues and weaknesses in your app. If your GMAT is low, there is no amount of explaining that will neutralize it. The only thing that […]

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($) All schools do a “holistic review.” But…

June 14, 2017 by EssaySnark

So we just spent 1,000 words yesterday telling you that the schools look at everything. And they do. In every chat, webinar, and info session, you’ll hear admissions directors of top MBA programs tell you that they do a “holistic review” of their candidates, that they don’t weight any particular component of the profile, that...


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Filed Under: low GMAT, low GPA, the admissions consulting industry

A BSer asks: “why does LBS take people with 600 gmat score whilst rejecting those with 700+?”

May 23, 2017 by EssaySnark 5 Comments

A Brave Supplicant named Rahul was recently reading the post “Why is the average GMAT score at LBS so much lower?” and he asked us this: As a genuine question, why does LBS take people with 600 gmat score whilst rejecting those with 700+. Im fully aware of the whole idea of GMAT just being […]

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