Please help with deciding whether or not to apply soon.

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mbaspirant3: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 5; Joined: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:01 am

by mbaspirant3 » Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:08 pm

Hi,

I am 4 days away from Stern Round 2 deadline and I have my application ready. The glitch is, I gave my GMAT recently and performed bad. I got a 640. My question is should I go ahead and apply in Round 2 on Nov 15th and tell the admissions team in the optional essay that I plan to take my GMAT again in 3 weeks? Or, should I apply in Round 3, in January, with a better score? I am an international applicant and Stern encourages international applicants to apply by Nov 15th. I am in a dilemma. Please help!

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by MargaretStrother » Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:52 pm

Sorry that your urgent message fell through the cracks here! I'd be interested to know what you decided to do, and whether you were able to get a higher GMAT score subsequently. Had I answered this message in time, my suggestion would have been to wait: a 640 would be a tough sell for NYU, and depending what else you had in your application, you might want to wait until you could get a maximally competitive score.

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Margaret Strother

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