How do top business schools select students?

marine1300
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:56:45 +0000

The admin people won’t ever come out and say it but the GMAT and College GPA have very little to do with admission. The 770 GMAT with and 4.0 Math major from Princeton has very little chance of admission at top 5 programs if their career wasn’t extremely progressive and successful. If your GPA is low, your GMAT needs to be high and vice versa. The superstar Goldman Sachs Investment banker and Bain private Equity Analyst with weaker GMAT and GPA still have a better chance than the afore mentioned graduate. However A really bad GPA and really bad GMAT will keep even top candidates out. It’s like they say, GMAT and GPA will not get you into B-School but they can keep you out! Best part about b-school is that the academic’s with 4.0’s who don’t have developed social skills and business success will never get in. They can go to Medical or Law School.