4 years ago, I gave my first GMAT while still in school, and got Q49(91%) V36(81%) 690(92%). After being out of school for 2.5 years, I gave it a 2nd shot today. Having been consistently scoring Q49~50 in GMATPrep, I couldn't help but feel a little bit disappointed when I got my score. I improved my verbal score significantly but it makes me think that an imbalanced score like this will put me at a disadvantage.
Now I know that my new score is indeed higher than the last one, but I feel that the last score that I got was more balanced, and each section was >80%. Do you guys think that I should apply using my higher but less balanced score or the lower but more balanced one? I know 20pt isn't a very big difference since most top-15 schools now have average GMAT of 700+.
I am also debating on whether to retake or not. But it seems like even if I can push my Quant to 49 and Verbal stays at 41, this will only give me a 730, which is a mere 20 increase. Trying to decide whether it's worth the effort & time to do a retake
My demographics:
GPA: 2.85 in Computer Science & statistics from top 1 school in Canada
26 y/o Taiwanese Canadian(lived in Canada since 14)
2.5 years experience in software development(at matriculation)
1 year tech consulting(international)
I am quite worried about my low GPA that's why I am trying to get a higher GMAT to offset that. Being a major in statistics, I did quite well on my lower level stats courses(A's & B's). However, I didn't do as well in the upper level stats(B's & C's) as I put more emphasis on my Computer Science courses. I was hoping that a high quant mark such as the one I got in my first try would help me to mitigate this, but it did not work out that well this time.
What do you guys think?? retake or stick with it !!?