Waitlist complication with low GMAT

uge2452

Hi, I'm a new member to the forum with a pressing challenge. I was waitlisted at G-town (my top-choice) during round 2. My intention was
to get off the WL as soon as possible by addressing my main weakness-- a 600 GMAT (Q 30, V 42) with a low quant score. After taking a prep course with Veritas, I took the exam for the fourth time and receive a lower overall score, albeit a higher quant score. I've gone through past posts on this forum and have found conflicting advice: taking the GMAT again (even with an unmoved score) shows Adcom your interest; Adcoms take only your highest score and disregard anything lower. So, my question:

-- Should I submit my new scores, even though they are lower than my
previous scores? My latest break down is a 580 (Q 34, V 35!). The quant is the highest score of all 4 attempts, yet the verbal is astonishingly low. That being said, is there value in this new score?

I do have Stats in my transcript and scored As, so it's not a matter of quant incompetence-- except for on the actual GMAT! Any insight you could provide would be helpful

VP_Scott

Sorry to hear about your GMAT angst!

I don't think there's much value in submitting your new score. That's good that your quant score improved, but if you have earned A's in college statistics courses, then I'm guessing that you don't have much to prove in the quant area. So, no need to submit a new score if it's just going to show that you earned a lower verbal score.

I don't know anything else about your application, but are you sure that your GMAT score is what's keeping you from being admitted? You seem pretty certain that the GMAT is the culprit, but maybe there's something else in your application that you should address? Has the school given you any feedback on what weaknesses there are in your application?

Scott