I don't see why a school would have a problem with a 4-year old score. They deemed that 5 years and less is acceptable, so you should be good to go. Not sure how pre- and post- 2012 GMAT changes will be looked at though.

Proboscis
 

retake it and then decide

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First off, do not retake the test. If you score lower (which you probably will unless you study for it again), the admissions teams at the schools you apply to will see this new score on your scoring transcript.

Second, according to official rules at all MBA programs and the GMAC, your score report is good for 5 years. The admissions teams will not "look down" on your score because it is 4 years old. Don't worry about it.

MKballer
 

i saw retake it because a 720 isn't that good assuming he is white or asian

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Hi Croato87,

As long as the GMAT test was taken within the 5 year window, your GMAT score will be considered the same regardless of whether it was taken in 07' or 11'.

Hope this was of help.

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if you got a 720 4 years ago that's the same as a 720 now. If you can raise the score, than that's a different story, but statistically speaking I think most people do better on the exam when they're younger.

If you're a white, indian or asian male it might be worth it to retake, but even then 720 is a pretty good score --- so long as the rest of your profile is solid that's not going to hurt you at all.

 
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BGP2587:

@OpsDude and others. Sloan was actually a four-year requirement this year. GMAT had to be taken after September, 2009 (R1 apps were due September, 2013).

That's really surprising. Any idea why they would do that? When I was a senior, the recommended advice was to take the GMAT then, while you're still in school and know how to study, because its good for 5 years everywhere.

 

I have absolutely no idea. My guess is that if you contacted them and said that you had a test from June 2009 that they would have accepted it, but who knows. I just know that my Admissions Consultant contacted me a couple weeks before apps were due and asked when I took my GMAT because she/others had just stumbled across this.

Seemed very strange to me though.

 

Ok apparently you're a first year analyst. I'd say wait. If you were an underclassman in college, I'd say go for and if you scored well it would be an impressive thing to add to an application.

 

I don't understand the downside to sending scores now for free. Just take a stab at the schools you'll be interested in down the road and send them. You might save some cash, or you might not - but why wouldn't you send them?

If you bomb the exam and have to retake it, your old scores will stay on record with GMAC, so it's not like you can hide a bad score for the next 5 years.

 
yourdreamtheater:
I don't understand the downside to sending scores now for free. Just take a stab at the schools you'll be interested in down the road and send them. You might save some cash, or you might not - but why wouldn't you send them?

If you bomb the exam and have to retake it, your old scores will stay on record with GMAC, so it's not like you can hide a bad score for the next 5 years.

Ok cool that's what I was wondering. Thanks.

 

If anything, showing a significantly improved score your second or third time around demonstrates grit and resilience. Just don't send scores if you plan on taking the GMAT more than three times. A fourth attempt at getting a decent score just makes you look desperate and unwilling to own up to your deficiencies.

 

Yeah you should definitely take the GMAT just in case.

Tons of people take the GMAT just in case -- just in case they decide to go to bschool, just in case they want that promotion, just in case their career messes up and they hate their job and want to switch. If you've already taken the GMAT, it becomes an "option" to go to business school.

Without that option, you're stuck in your career wondering whether or not it's too late to start taking your GMAT...uhoh! Take it now.

 

A 760 is a 760.. don't worry about it getting devalued with rising averages (isn't the average still somewhere in the 520-540 range?).

As for the 5 year issue, doesn't matter at all. School give equal weight to a 760 from 4-5 years ago as they do to a 760 0-1 years ago, as long as it is still valid. I applied to MBA programs the very last year my gmat score was valid, and had zero issues with it.

 
ke18sb:

I think you should take it again and score higher if you can. I don't think it is worth the risk of the 760 devaluing in the future. I'd aim for an 820 to be on the safe side.

An 820 will really only cut if you're an URM or a nontraditional applicant.

For anyone else, retake.

 

I used a 4.5 year old gmat score and had no problems with H/S/W apps. Also, most of the apps require you to include your percentile along with score for each section and cumulative so that really shouldn't be a worry.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the not the first year admissions committees exist so call me crazy but my guess, and it's a wild one, they have seen this before and you probably shouldn't worry about it.

 

Admissions won't care. I took mine 3 years prior to application. One thing to note is the trend in rising GMAT averages, so you may end up feeling compelled to retake in 2022.

 

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