GMAT Excellence?

Ramos4rm · April 20, 2017, 2:00am

Dawg…work experience…do you have it?

Isaiah_53_5 · April 20, 2017, 6:38am

You excited about starting school? What are your plans next summer?

Iprofit4sure · April 20, 2017, 1:45pm

3 years

Isaiah_53_5 · April 23, 2017, 11:51pm

Iprofit4sure:

ohai:

You need to know only basic math for GMAT. Even if you have not performed math exercises in a long while, it should come back to you with some practice. With that being said, some of those questions are designed to trick you and will confuse you under time pressure. It is also frustrating that you must rely on long division or other primitive methods to estimate various numbers. People nowadays are surrounded by multiple computers and are trained specifically to not have to rely on backwards hand calculations. I blame this as the factor that prevented me from achieving a perfect score.

Interesting, but very helpful and good to know. I was actually really good at long division…when I was 10…haha. that’s kind of ridiculous. Perhaps the logic is, since we have computers, they want to see how much of a computer the people taking the exam can be : /

In any event, I won’t be undertaking GMAT and the B-School provided I can get this CFA charter knocked out. I just am not sure that my GPA, (3.94) from a state school, decent but not amazing work experience (Analyst in Alts for a good size financial services firm) will be enough combined with a plus 700 GMAT to get in to top 20/Top 10 program.

My only unique quality is that I used to be in a rock band, play 5 instruments, and licensed songs to MTV at the age of 18 (also a registered songwriter with BMI music publishing).

if you get 700+ I think you’ll be fine. It might come down to T10 at cost vs T20 scholarship