bigeater1 wrote:I am taking the GMAT in a couple of weeks, and am planning to send my score report to five schools free of charge (included with test).

1. My question is... is there any reason for someone to not take advantage of the 5 free schools? I am not 100% that I will apply to all of the 5 schools that I will select, but I figure, I might as well send my report to all of them anyway, since it's free.

2. Is there any scenario in which it would be a better idea to wait until after viewing my score to send my reports out?

3. Also, mba.com says that if you provide Undergrad major, GPA, etc, on test day, then it will all be included on the score report as well. Should the test-taker always provide all of this information? Or is there a scenario in which it would beneficial not to?

Thanks all!

Absolutely buddy.

Let's say that you already took the gmat the previous time and you sent the scores already to the school.

So they are sitting on your scores and you retake and you send them again. But after you are done taking the test, your score is lower.

That's one case.

Basically, if your schools are already sitting on a good/decent set of scores and you're doing a retake, it might be a good idea not to send them in until after you find out what your score.

The catch is that you have to pay 28 bucks for each school you want to send the score to. So you have to choose carefully what schools you want to send the scores to and what schools you don't want to (before you begin taking the test).

Because GMAC is a very sneaky ass operation. They know how to squeeze their $ out of unsuspecting test takers.

They will let you send the scores for free if you decide before starting the test. But after you get the score, the deal is done. You can't change your mind and not send the scores if your result is below what you expected.

Then again if you bypass this whole thing, you are looking at spending 140 dollars to send 5 scores if you decide not to send anything when you start the test, but get a good score and now you want to report.

Sneaky sneaky sneaky.

Decide wisely I say.

All in all, I would just choose to report. That's why it's important to be totally prepared and then take the test. Because any school you're gonna apply to and you send them your GMAT report, they're gonna see all the scores within the last 5 years.

So just report but make sure you're prepared to get a good score. Because the school is gonna see all the scores anyway.

The case where you don't want them to see the score is when you already applied, you already gave them a good score, and you're taking the test between the time you applied and the time they release decisions.

Then if you do a retake in this time, and you screw up your test, you don't want the school you're dying to get in see that you just screwed up a GMAT. That is not good at all.

Thanks, skang!

That makes a lot of sense, and was very helpful advice.