700 in 45 days flat!

[Shagun Singh]

Hi everyone!
I wrote my gmat on the 2nd of Sept and scored a 700! My Quant/Verbal split is 49/37 and my overall percentile is 90.
I began stuyding on the 14th of July. I did not take any classes and stuck to just the following:
1) Princeton Review - the warm up - to revise the basic concepts and strategies
2) OG 11 - The entire book, done thrice.
3) OG Quant/ Verbal supplements - Both done twice.
4) GMAT Prep papers - Scores 670 (Prep 1) and 690 (Prep2)
5) Manhattan GMAT papers - scores - 660, 620, 640, 660, 690, 700
6) Posts and success stories on this great forum!

I really did not think my score would touch 700 as I was averaging lesser in my mocks.But it came as a great surprise!
Im looking at applying to the top colleges now and I hope I make it. I have an impressive GPA and 4 years of work ex in advertising, at JWT, on the Pepsi business in India. Im hoping that this will be a good enough GMAT score to apply to some of the top programmes. Any views on whether I should retake or not?
Also, what colleges should I look at for a Marketing specialisation? As of now, Im thinking of Columbia, Duke and Insead. Any other suggestions?
Thanks a lot guys

[bharathh]

Congratulations! Good luck with your apps

[cramya]

Congrats on the 700. I am not an admissions expert but I think Kellog's has a good marketing program

Good luck!

Regards,
CR

[turbo jet]

Hi Shagun,
Congratulations!!
45 days and 700....pretty cool

Hope this ranking by usnews helps.

Acc to USNews 2009 rankings:
Best Business Schools Specialty Rankings: Marketing
1 Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
3 Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA
5 Harvard University Boston, MA
6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
7 University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
8 Columbia University New York, NY
9 University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
10 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX



Good luck for ur apps.
Cheers
Turbo Jet

[Shagun Singh]

hey thanks guys,
im sort of confused about whether 700 is a good enough score or do I need to retake? I have very really academic scores so I wonder if it makes too much of a difference by retaking and improving my score a little.
Any suggestions? Im intending to apply to colleges in top 15 rankings only.