<p>710 is 92nd percentile as of this year.</p>
<p>Gellino, consider this: around 110,000 people take the Gmat each year. In any given year, approximately 1,100 score in the 99th percentile (760 or above). Although Gmat scores are valid for 3 years, we can assume that, on average, 1,100 students with 760+ GMat scores apply to business school every admissions season…</p>
<p>Now go back and take a look at elsijfdl’s statistics again. If they are correct, then nearly every 760+ Gmat scorer is accepted to and enrolls in one of the elite MBA programs (assuming other top programs such as harvard have similar Gmat distributions)…</p>
<p>…although past statistical arguments have shown your inital claim to be false, in every reasonable sense, how would you refute this?</p>
<p>gmat scores are valid for 5 years, not 3.</p>
<p>The only place on the internet, that I am aware of, which might be able to provide a view to answer this question is [admissions411</a> - Business school admission stats, interview and waitlist results, and MBA application info (411)](<a href=“http://www.admissions411.com%5Dadmissions411”>http://www.admissions411.com) . There, students self-report on their B-school applications - where, and whether they get in - as well as their backgrounds (GPA, GMAT). You could conceivably do a differential admit rate % to each institution by specific GMAT score, if the sample size turns out to be large enough.</p>
<p>elsijfdl, if you are using the upper value for “Middle 80% range GMAT score” from the link you posted then those numbers are actually 90th percentile (as the middle 80 is 10 to 90) not 80th percentile. I can’t see anywhere on that site that they actually post the 80th percentile, so I just thought I would point that out.</p>
<p>so here’s my question… My daughters boyfriend (great catch!) just took his gmat today and scored 780. He is a Harvard undergrad with 4 years of hedgefund employment and very impressive recommendations coming his way. Is Stanford looking good? also do they give scholarships? I’m so very proud of him as I have known him and his family for many years.</p>
<p>I mean, Stanford doesn’t “look good” to anyone, but he’ll probably be very competitive.</p>
<p>I can’t emphasize enough the importance of getting an Admissions Consultant. The writing skills required to stand out are far beyond anyone who is even a superior writer - not just in wordsmithing but also in choosing which ideas or experiences to relate. It will be well worth the money.</p>
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<p>I can’t disagree more with the idea of paying for an admissions consultant of some kind for business school admissions, particularly when so much of one’s application rides on one’s recommendations, work experience, GMAT scores and personal interview. Unless someone is shooting for the stars without the credentials to warrant admission to the top school of one’s dreams, I wouldn’t recommend wasting the money on some kind of consultant (and without the credentials, any consultant is unlikely to help anyway).</p>
<p>Denzera,</p>
<p>Thank you for your response. Very valuable information to pass on. He of course will be applying to more then one school and I know writing the essay or personal statements have taken much more time then studying for the gmat did.</p>
<p>ok well… 2 different options… Glad to hear both sides. I will make sure and pass both opinions on.</p>
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I had the recommendations, the work experience, the GMAT scores, and the interview ability. I’m even a good writer - see my posting history here.</p>
<p>What I wasn’t, was a good strategist for presenting what officers wanted to hear in the format they wanted to hear it. Even more importantly, the careful editing to say exactly what I wanted to say in as few words as possible, and have a careful flow to my ideas and presentation in the essays. I’m a good essay writer, these guys are FANTASTIC essay writers, at least in the short format that applies here.</p>
<p>Do you absolutely need one in order to get into a top school? Of course not. You may never know the exact percentage odds you’ll have without one and odds with one. But I definitely felt the improvement in my application abilities as I worked with mine. Yeah, it cost a lot of money, but in the end, here I am sitting in a classroom at a top B-school. I think it was worth the money. Others may not (especially if they don’t have the baseline credentials), but if you’re in the running, they can really help you separate yourself from the pack.</p>
<p>Are MBA consultants sanctioned? I forwarded both opinions on the matter and he emailed back, that while unlikely as it might be (were it to be known to admissions) his application could be thrown out.</p>