low GMAT score - Msc.Finance - please evaluate profile
I'm looking to get into one of the top 1-year pre-experience Masters in Finance programs (Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, LSE, ...)
I just finished writing the GMAT and I was quite disappointed with the results (690, Q48, V35). Until then I thought I had a pretty good profile. My question: should I retake or take GRE, or is the rest of my profile good enough to account for low score?
profile:
3.95/4.00 GPA in engineering from top 20 university in the world 2 full summers of trading floor experience in Tier 1 banks Teaching Assistant in mathematics at my university played national level sports and am still very involved very active with university life, founded two clubs (one academic and one sports-related) perfectly bilingual
any thoughts comments are appreciated!!
Thanks
I know 2 ppl that got into LSE for MSc risk management with 680, 660 gmat's, and gpa's a bit lower than yours, also from engineering...i would guess you'd be ok..europe isnt as gmat crazy as the US is.
Yes you should retake the GMAT
oh well, there you have it then...i was only using what i knew, risk management is apparently easier than finance...
But I mean, is it a complete killer, like they will discard the application right away? MIT states their Quant and Verbal ranges as: 48-51 and 35-42 respectively. I felt the rest of my profile could be okay to account for the lower score. I'm just not very good at taking these standardized tests (it was the same with the SATs...)
Average scores suggest different things. Can be 51Q and 35V or 48Q 42V. 720 average can also be from combos such as with 650 and another with 790.
Your profile is good enough to be the 650 guy but I would aim for Q50+ in GMAT
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