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High GMAT/GPA, poor work experience. Where to apply?

The short question: Everyone know's a high GMAT can't get you in, but a low one can keep you out. But at what school does a high score help you the most? ---------------------------------------- And as it applies to me: 760 GMAT (1 attempt) 3.71 GPA at the University of Washington Business Administr...

by kmcduw

Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:44 pm
Forum: The Application Process
Topic: High GMAT/GPA, poor work experience. Where to apply?
Replies: 1
Views: 3106

I've been on these forums for a while, and I have never seen anyone say that extensive preparation is the only way to get a great score. You're probably a very smart individual and already strong in most of the GMAT-tested concepts. Your baseline score is probably already quite high. If this is the...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

You are contradicting yourself in your statements. First you state that you don't need to spend hundreds of hours studying and that, based on your example, you only need one practice exam, 2 hours of prep, and a half-hour of warm up the night before to get a good score. Then you state that you have...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

Agreed. This is not normal. Not everyone is a natural like you. I would give an arm and leg to get the same verbal score. Well, thanks? That said, I'm not the only person capable of this, so this was really intended for people of similar backgrounds who are going to kill themselves studying for a t...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:46 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

Do you have prior math skills, etc to draw from ? My biggest problem in studying is although I know and understand arithmetic, etc., when having to do it without a calculator, then throwing in the Algebra and Geometry, of which I know very little (even less than what I should have known from high s...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:45 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

I've been on these forums for a while, and I have never seen anyone say that extensive preparation is the only way to get a great score. You're probably a very smart individual and already strong in most of the GMAT-tested concepts. Your baseline score is probably already quite high. If this is the...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:43 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

Adding my 2cents here. GMAT tests basic logic, language and math skills. Most people are are weak in one of the areas. Hence they need 3-4 months of prepration to get a desired score. That's true. Oddly enough I got very similar scores on Q and V, yet very different %tiles on each (80% Q, 99%V). It...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:33 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

I am usually the skeptic and I've been on the BEATTHEGMAT forums a few times in the past two weeks (I come here via twitter mostly). First time poster here as well. Either you are a very gifted individual which is not outside the realm of possibility or you got incredibly lucky. I took the GRE more...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:31 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

Hi, Congratulations. GMAT Test preparation is a Billion dollar industry. By revealing the Test secret, you might have jeopardized the prospects of so many Test prep companies. :cry: I don't think there is any one secret. However, I think the key to improving from 680 practice to 760 actual was 1) i...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

Congrats on the score ;) 760 is very, very good! Good luck with your applications! In order to somehow understand the relation between experience and the score, could you share, at least, a part of your profile and maybe which exams you have taken until now? University of Washington, 2010, 3.71, Ac...

by kmcduw

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:25 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272

760 with very little studying

Hi everyone, first time poster. Anyway, I just took my first GMAT this morning and got a 760 (48Q, 45V) with only approx 4.5 hours of studying. I was searching around the web to see what options this gave me in combination with my GPA, etc, and stumbled across a lot of posts on this forum. I noted t...

by kmcduw

Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:39 am
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 760 with very little studying
Replies: 19
Views: 10272