Ok I'm going to take a contrarian stand here. I sincerely believe that you should consider re-taking the GMAT. As I have stated on numerous occasions in the past, I'm highly averse to some of these admission consultants trolling these forums (peddling their useless advice). These consultants love to prey on folks with either average GMAT scores or average GPAs by selling them some snake oil. It is true that schools look at the entire package besides the GMAT score, but off late, the GMAT score has assumed a new importance. When the times were good, schools were swayed by highly embellished essays of applicants (ghost written by these admission consultants). But things have changed dramatically recently. Ivy League schools like Wharton and Columbia weren't able to place 20-25% of their students even 3 months after graduating. In reality the stats are far worse because a lot of companies have pushed back the start date for new recruits to Dec/Jan and schools are counting this in their recruitment stats (whether they materialize or not). The situation is comparatively dire in Europe.
Employers are looking at the entire package of potential b-school recruits and applying filters based upon GMAT score, GPA and Institution they graduated from (and these companies can be extremely choosy in this environment). So say, even with your GMAT score you were to secure an admit to an institute of your choice, you'd face tremendous hurdles during the campus recruitment.
You need to be proud of yourself for getting a 51 in Math. You just need to apply yourself a little bit to propel your verbal score into the 40s. Don't forget that the GMAT score speaks volumes to a potential recruiter. A high Quant score underscores your potential ability to handle math oriented tasks (I-Banking, etc.) and a decent Verbal score gives comfort to a Consulting company that you would be able to write industry reports without serious grammatical errors. After all, business school doesn't teach the basics!!
You are young and still have some time. Unlike some of the other applicants, you can afford to miss the current app cycle (if need be) and re-apply the following year with a significantly higher GMAT score. Don't take my words for it, check out the various articles on businessweek.com pertaining to this discussion.
Employers are looking at the entire package of potential b-school recruits and applying filters based upon GMAT score, GPA and Institution they graduated from (and these companies can be extremely choosy in this environment). So say, even with your GMAT score you were to secure an admit to an institute of your choice, you'd face tremendous hurdles during the campus recruitment.
You need to be proud of yourself for getting a 51 in Math. You just need to apply yourself a little bit to propel your verbal score into the 40s. Don't forget that the GMAT score speaks volumes to a potential recruiter. A high Quant score underscores your potential ability to handle math oriented tasks (I-Banking, etc.) and a decent Verbal score gives comfort to a Consulting company that you would be able to write industry reports without serious grammatical errors. After all, business school doesn't teach the basics!!
You are young and still have some time. Unlike some of the other applicants, you can afford to miss the current app cycle (if need be) and re-apply the following year with a significantly higher GMAT score. Don't take my words for it, check out the various articles on businessweek.com pertaining to this discussion.
Well, you may be right if you compare an Indian IT guy with 3.5y experience with another Indian IT guy with 3.5 y experience ... nothing else special about them ... maybe a score of 710 or 750 would help better than 690 ...
