Need Advice – Please Help [MBA Program Applicant]

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>Hi everyone.</p>

<p>Well here is my problem:</p>

<p>I got my BA in Political Science from Brandies University, with 3.35 GPA (4.0 scale). Then I earned my Masters at the University of Southern California in Public Administration with a GPA of 3.45 (4.0 scale). I have 3 years of diverse work experience and internships, currently I’m working full time as an analyst for a company. </p>

<p>I want to get MBA degree (Financing or Management). The greatest problem of all is GMAT. I do very bad at standardized tests, since they wear me out very easily and then I just screw it up. I’ve tried several times, but English verbal section is killing me, since English is not my first language and I am a US Citizen now.</p>

<p>I have perfect letters of recommendations and everything looks just fine, but GMAT is killing my hopes for future…</p>

<p>What can I do? What should I do? I just want to get an MBA, not online MBA, the real one, where you sit in class and interact with a professor…</p>

<p>Please help, any advice is welcome.</p>

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<p>It seems like you’re a pretty well-rounded applicant. It all depends on what your GMAT score is. Are you within a school’s middle 50%? Just because you’re below their mean doesn’t mean that you won’t get in. But your post is a little too vague. If you don’t want to admit your score, that’s fine, but it’ll limit the amount of help people here can give you.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>There isn’t much you ca do since you have to take the GMAT…but everything else seems to be very good. Which schools were you looking into? And like alicantekid said, we can help you more if you told us your score.</p>

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<p>cmon…drop your GMAT score…lol…</p>

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<p>Yeah, we need to know your GMAT score to properly advise you.</p>

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<p>You’d be surprised how many programs you can get into with a crappy GMAT. I’m not talking top tier, but you just mentioned you wanted to sit down and interact with a professor. It sounds like you are in So Cal…try Pepperdine, Loyola, and Cal Lutheran.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all your replies…</p>

<p>Well I scored on my GMAT really bad - Verbal Section - 380 =( ,
Quantitative Section - 490 =( =( =(, Analytical Writing Assessment Section - 4.0</p>

<p>So…you see I’ve failed completely. Ashamed to even send these scores… Took twice and nearly same results with a slight +10 -10 difference on Verbal and Quantitative and I will never again go through this damn exam…</p>

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<p>How do they calculate GMAT scores? Is it an average? If it’s an average…OUCH! If they just add the scores together…well, um, they don’t do they?</p>

<p>Can somebody post how they calculate these scores. Thanks.</p>

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<p>I also wanted to add to my previous post that I found out recently that I’ve got an ADD (Adult Attn. Deficit) problem. So this might also be a contributing factor of me failing GMAT. But I am not taking any meds. due to my personal belief that taking medication is immoral. </p>

<p>I do not want to let the program know I have ADD, since I don’t need anyone’s petty or feeling sorry for me. I am as normal as anyone else =)</p>

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<p>They don’t break down the GMAT like you described. The only time you get a 3 digit score is the overall combined score. When it’s broken down by section the numbers for both quant and verbal should be two digit numbers.</p>

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<p>That’s my GRE. Last time I took standardized was GRE, 2 months before GMAT, and 6 months before LSAT. LSAT - 157 and GMAT - 490.</p>