GMAT score - Bachelor in math, physics, and engineering

I can it is a chicken and egg questions actually.

People studying science, most of the time, have better aptitude than people studying Finance and Accounting. Now, I m sure if the 4-year education in itself may make someone better in the gmat test.

My point of view though is that the population studying math and science is just smarter than the populaiton studying finance and accounting

Absolutely....after all, it is only the highest levels of calculus tested on the GMAT - but seriously...no.

I think if the people taking the GMAT did not spend any time studying then the answer to your question is yes. But if a person from an art or finance background spends a lot of time studying, he/she has potential to do better than science nerd.

I think people are overlooking the correlation of Math/Physics major and non-native English speakers. My guess is that Math/Physics students will have no problem reaching 95%+ percentiles on the Quantitative section, but will likely struggle significantly on the Verbal section.

As an example, one can score 720+ with a 99% Verbal / 80% Math, but I don't think it's possible the other way around. Many adcoms today will admit that 80% on the Quant section is very good given the concentration of foreign students taking the test these days.

Also, as someone mentioned above, any inteligent liberal arts major can ramp pretty quickly to 70%+ on Quant with just a little studying, but the Verbal isn't as easy to improve (it's more of a "you either get it or you don't").

+1 on what BananaStand is saying. I have a 720 with a 99% verbal, 58% quant. You reach the 99% faster on the verbal part so anything beyond that can really boost your overall score.

I would say the philosophy major might have a slight advantage on the verbal - critical reasoning, lots of writing, etc. Also, I disagree that math/physics students will have no problem reaching 95%+ on quant - the math involved in the GMAT is very different from real math. It is almost more similar to critical reasoning, particularly in data sufficiency.

Dr Joe is probably right. 95%+ is probably challenging for anyone, especially under the GMAT time constraints. Having said that, I just made the assumption that a Math/Physics major is going to have much better conditioning for the mental gymnastics and algebraic manipulations that the GMAT requires.

I was a social sciences major in college, so needless to say, it has been awhile since I worried about prime numbers and factoring. My personal goal is to be able to finish 80%+ on the Quant section (starting from 70% a few weeks ago on a practice test).

If you get 95th percentile you can join Mensa:

http://www.us.mensa.org/Content/AML/NavigationMenu/Join/SubmitTestScore…

That seems like a pretty nice backdoor into Mensa considering the 95th percentile overall is right around a 720-730.

Given where the score profile of students at the top 5-10 MBA programs, Mensa is saying slightly under 50% of the student bodies at the top 5 MBA programs would be eligible to join.