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I have been accepted into one graduate program, but i honestly don't know if it's worth the cost. It's the diploma in accounting and finance from LSE
What do you want to do?
Since you're on WSO I'd assume you're looking for Finance. The Valedictorian/4.0 is nice, but at this point you're not really giving anyone a good reason to hire you.
I'd focus on getting more relevant experience and get into the best and most relative masters degree you can.
It depends on exactly what you want to do, but I'd consider taking a year of internships/experience in the field you're looking to get into and preparing for the GMAT. Then MFA, MAcc, MSc.
I'm intersted in management consulting, IB or business development.
Thank you. I'm sort of leaning toward taking the next year to do that. I assume that taking a job at a start-up would be somewhat pointless, right?
The sad (maybe more ridiculous part) is that I did really well on the verbal section and just completely bombed the quant section (didn't even realize that you could get that low of a score on a section). I think my issue is that on a lot of the MGMAT CATs I felt like I was getting extremely lucky with a lot of the most challenging questions. In the sense that I would get them correct, but had absolutely no idea why they were correct. That intuition completely abandoned me on the real thing and I started trying to evaluate my performance on the quant section during the test, which sort of derailed my confidence when I started getting pretty basic questions.
If you were really scoring that well on practice tests, it wouldn't be a terrible idea to study another month and retake while it's still fresh. But I'm having a hard time believing that score difference unless you took it drunk.
My exact score was: IR 6, Quant 16, and Verbal 44. So yeah, flat out failed the quant
I agree with accountingbyday. Spend the summer doing an internship and re-studying for the GMAT and then apply to grad school and/or full time positions in the fall. It's really not the end of the world. Worst case scenario, go into a different industry. It sounds like your poor test performance is more psychological than anything else.
retake GMAT. Quant 16 is not acceptable.
If you are looking for job opportunities in europe it is totally acceptable to do 1 year of internships (at least 2 different firms/roles though... very long internships are frowned upon by everyone except the company that gets the cheap labour for a year) and then go do your masters with a better gmat score. 650 would probably be enough to get you into some decent enough programs but obviously the better the score, the better your chances for a good school and good recruiting.
OP, retake it. Some people just don't test well for various reasons.
Man I'm a fucking retarded at math and on the first try on the GMAT Prep I got Q27 and I didn't even look at the content of test.
Do some meditation before the exam, sleep well, eat healthy, etc.
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