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by nishant1309 » Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:44 pm
Dear Folks,

Can anyboby please explain the meaning and interpretation of "Mid 80% (percentile) range" when talking about GMAT score or Salary as declared by B-Schools in their websites?

What does it actually indicates?
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by Jon@Admissionado » Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:05 am
Hmm. Well if you give a wee bit more context we can be a bit more precise, but if your GMAT is in the mid-80 percentile range, it means you got a score that was ranked somewhere in the 80-90% range of the scores that people received for that year (putting you in a pretty good position)
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by nishant1309 » Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:27 am
Dear Frank,

Thanks for response!

Its not about my score (I've not taken yet!). Its a term that i usually find on school websites or bloomberg website, where they present the key stats of a school. I am not able to comprehend what actually it indicates. For example, refer this link on ISB website: https://www.isb.edu/PGP/2011Profile.Shtml

Under the header Age and GMAT, they have given a data in terms of "Mid 80% (percentile) range". At times, for few schools, even salary is presented in this form.

Could you please explain in light of above link??

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by Jon@Admissionado » Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:46 am
Yep. This means that 80% of the applicants got within that range, and than 20% got either above or below. This is often a more effective statistic than mean or median GMAT to show the range of normal scores that the school accepts, and it is also a good indicator of how important GMAT scores are to the school.
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by nishant1309 » Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:00 am
Thanks Frank!

For a range of 670 - 760 at ISB is to wide a range to really guess how much score i should target.

Well, i beliive the mid value 700-720 would be fair enough in this case.

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by Jon@Admissionado » Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:44 pm
Yep!
And what it does tell you is that they ARE interested in candidates who have varied GMAT profiles, meaning that other parts of your app carry more weight.

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by nishant1309 » Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:17 am
Great!

Thats a very important inferences you have drawn!

Many thanks!
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