In May I posted musings about new career paths, and possibly going back to school. In exploration of that, I learned that people applying to the better MBA schools need to take an entrance exam, the GMAT. I bought a study guide for it (Peterson's) and found to no great surprise that this test was going to be pretty hard, and that I wasn't doing very well self-studying for it.
So I signed up for a four session class ($385) at Seattle U about taking the GMAT. Worth every penny, as the instructor not only helped familiarize the oddities of this test [Data Sufficiency?!?] and identify which sections each student needed to work on, but was hilarious the whole time.
I took the test Monday afternoon - complete and official results won't be sent for a couple of weeks, but I unofficially got a 600 overall. So, better than average, but not amazingly so. Most of the points lost were in the Quantitative section. It's been far too long since I regularly factored quadratics.
So I signed up for a four session class ($385) at Seattle U about taking the GMAT. Worth every penny, as the instructor not only helped familiarize the oddities of this test [Data Sufficiency?!?] and identify which sections each student needed to work on, but was hilarious the whole time.
I took the test Monday afternoon - complete and official results won't be sent for a couple of weeks, but I unofficially got a 600 overall. So, better than average, but not amazingly so. Most of the points lost were in the Quantitative section. It's been far too long since I regularly factored quadratics.
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There are really only two schools I'm interested in: Seattle U and UW. The two programs are astonishingly different, with points in favor of either. Neither school goes into specifics on their requirements, but a 600 sounds like enough to at least get them looking. The other major factor is my GPA which, I was surprised to realize, I can't remember. I know it wasn't fabulous, and I have some dim memory of 2.7 maybe - but was that out of 4 or out of 5? Can't remember, and the U of I's website says the school was switching from one to another in that time frame. I've ordered a copy of my transcript, it will arrive in another few weeks.
I know the UW mentioned that the lowest scoring applicant they accepted last year got a 550, but the UW uses your GPA, GMAT, work experience, recommendations and personal essay combined to determine admission.
Seattle U relies more on the GPA and GMAT and doesn't even ask for an essay.
I guess I'll know more if I apply and are refused! Both schools say it's fine to apply again afterward.
And, you'd be ok to enter Notre Dame's business school.
Very little of the Quantitative in the GMAT has surfaced in my B-school experience. None of my instructors seem to care about types of triangles or calculating the volume of a cone.
Your "official" results, BTW will be exactly what your "unofficial" results were - why they disclaim that to be the case, I have no idea.
But the real test is computer-aided, and adjusts each following question for difficulty depending on whether you were correct on the last one.
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