jakesing wrote:
Anyone have any insight into my Q with regards to my candidacy to the top couple schools?
Congrats on the 730! Despite your lack of satisfaction with the score, it's a very competent score. Most of the people reading/using this website would be thrilled to score a 730 on the GMAT. Well done!
Regarding your specific question, no one, but no one, here is going to tell you that 730 is not enough to get you into a Top 10--or even Top 3--school. Not a single school is going to exclude you purely because you scored 730 as opposed to scoring 760.
3.76 GPA + 730 GMAT score is very competitive. Now it's up to your work experience, extra curricular activities, references and your personal statement/essay. Not a single B-School has a GMAT median or mean average that's above 730. So no school is going to categorically exclude you.
Your question is really more: Am I
guaranteed admission into a TOP school with a 730 and a GPA of 3.76? No, you're not guaranteed, but you wouldn't be guaranteed with a 760 + 3.76 GPA either. You do however have a
very high probability of being accepted into a top school. All things being
completely equal, a score of 760 will undoubtedly be considered better than 730, but your score is sufficiently high enough such that the adcoms will be taking other factors into account in deciding whether you are admitted or not to their school.
This is all to say that your 730 score is high enough so that no school is going to reject you simply for your GMAT score alone. Put another way, if you're rejected by a certain school for whatever reason, it most likely will
not be because your GMAT was 730 as opposed to 760. They most likely would have rejected you for that same reason had you offered them a 760 score in your application.
Spend some time on your essay. Best of luck!
