GMATAspirant,
I talked to many people from AdCom from few business schools. They have same opinion, GMAT score is important but not as important as focusing on application or bringing diversity to your profile.
1. I would invest the time you are spending in repeating GMAT in learning a new language or teaching for Teach for America, NGO. This is help you much more than improving GMAT score by 20 points.
2. GMAT is considered as filtering criterion not an admission criterion. I had a friend who scored 780 in GMAT and rejected by HBS, Stanford, NYU, Columbia and Duke. She wasted one year as she only applied to all aspirational schools. If you really want to improve your profile probably work for few months in the related field you want to work in after MBA. Say if you want to get into Finance, go and work for say IT dept for some bank, instead of working for outsourcing firm.
3. Another pointer for AdCom, they dont like candidates who take GMAT 4-5 times without any improvements. Might apply in your case but say some candidates, get 650 and get other scores around 650 then well its a negative factor as they can surely tell you dont know how to self-evaluate and focus on other important points in application process.
I talked to many people from AdCom from few business schools. They have same opinion, GMAT score is important but not as important as focusing on application or bringing diversity to your profile.
1. I would invest the time you are spending in repeating GMAT in learning a new language or teaching for Teach for America, NGO. This is help you much more than improving GMAT score by 20 points.
2. GMAT is considered as filtering criterion not an admission criterion. I had a friend who scored 780 in GMAT and rejected by HBS, Stanford, NYU, Columbia and Duke. She wasted one year as she only applied to all aspirational schools. If you really want to improve your profile probably work for few months in the related field you want to work in after MBA. Say if you want to get into Finance, go and work for say IT dept for some bank, instead of working for outsourcing firm.
3. Another pointer for AdCom, they dont like candidates who take GMAT 4-5 times without any improvements. Might apply in your case but say some candidates, get 650 and get other scores around 650 then well its a negative factor as they can surely tell you dont know how to self-evaluate and focus on other important points in application process.
