Is the GMAT alone good enough to enter a B-School?
I was thinking about getting a MSc Finance, if possible at a top Business School. However, my profile as it is right now is hardly great (Economics major at a B-Tier University, good grades but no honours, 1 year of work experience - not in the finances, though).
Can I make it up with a really good grade in the GMAT?
Get the good GMAT score first, then we'll tell you what else you need to do. Good luck.
No. Merely having a high GMAT won't get you very far.
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A high GMAT is necessary but not sufficient. Score well on the GMAT and then worry about ways to compensate for UG performance.
No
You guys may have missed it, but he/she did say masters in finance, not an mba. Princeton/MIT are obviously not going to happen, but wouldn't Villanova, Vanderbilt and the likes be possible?
No dude, not at all man you need to have a complete profile. I have a buddy that got dinged at BC, Duke, and 'Nova w/ a stellar GMAT b/c his w.e. was wishy-washy and his UG performance was so-so.
There's no chance they just wrote a shitty essay or didn't seem to have a good reason to do a msf?
Boston college for example has an average gpa 3.44. Duke has an average gpa of a 3.4 and 70% of the class has less than 6months of work experience.
Something tells me that there were other reasons as to why your friend was rejected.
Ya....I have no clue where all these straight no's came from. This is why you can so rarely trust information you just read on a forum this lax with letting posts go through.
You would probably have better luck starting out here: http://gmatclub.com/forum/ms-finance-86/
"Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people." -Mr. Garrison
I was looking into a lot of MSF program and two friends of mine got into Fuqua and Brandeis. GMAT plays a big part in it since both of them had over a 700++ and wrote stellar essays. Just write stellar essays and get a great GMAT should be good then. Sometimes a high GMAT offsets a bad grade or whatever, but that's just one component of it. Good luck.
GMAT in and of itself isn't going to get you in anywhere. With that said, 1 year experience, decent grades (above a 3.0) and good EC's should be fine. Assume you get a 600 or better and you will get into a handful of good schools.
Focus on actually getting the GMAT and then we can give better advice.
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