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GMAT: total versus quant versus verbal
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Updated on: 12 Feb 2007, 10:34
Ok, so I want to make this as general as possible:
What if an applicant has a good overall score (700+), but there is a major discrepancy between the quant and verbal scores?
What if quant is much higher? (that's for all you accounting geeks.)
What if the verbal is much higher? (for bookworms like me.)
Specifically (because I just can't help myself), does my 710 score diminish next to my 46 V (99th) and my 41 quant (64th)?
Would an adcom's view of such a discrepancy vary a lot from one school to the next?
And since it's all relative, I have an econ development background in a community development credit union (i.e. a crazy liberal who likes finances and poor people). 3.94 gpa, Phi Beta Kappa, but a small tier-2 private liberal arts school in the midwest. In spite of my ho-hum quant score, got an A in calculus. 5 years work experience, much of which is national-level stuff. Kickin' community experience, lots of leadership in the office and out. International experience - 4 languages. Planning to take statistics starting in January - a little late since I am applying now, but I figure it can't hurt and they can always ask to see my mid-terms or something. Cornell, Yale, Duke, UNC with a long-term goal of staying in economic development and taking the credit union field by storm. Short-term: CRA for Block or Citigroup. Gotta know the other side to fight 'em. And it'd be nice to finally make some dough and have some resources to throw at the problems I am working on.
Thoughts, anyone? Any of you in the same boat? Is it your verbal or your quant that's on top?
Originally posted by
aaudetat on 12 Dec 2006, 20:38.
Last edited by
aaudetat on 12 Feb 2007, 10:34, edited 1 time in total.