Chances of getting in to top US b school. gmat 740?
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A GMAT of 740 is excellent, and higher than the average GMAT score at every American B-School.  The top American B-Schools want 30-40% of their students to be international students.  They want students to have four to five years of work experience.\n\nThe other things that they will care about are references, the quality of your previous education (it would help if you went to the top schools in India), references and your essays.  The essays are extremely important.\n\nYou seem to have many things going for you.  You have one thing that may go against you.  You already have an MBA.  You may want to contact the admissions offices of the schools that interest you to see if they will accept someone who already has a foreign MBA.  If they don't, then applying will be a waste of money.
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There is no uniform way to do so.  One must find websites for each program of interest and contact each school directly.  Prior to doing so, however, most schools require the GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test) and an undergraduate (bachelors degree or equivalent).  The more competitive programs require at least five years of post-baccalaureate work experience.\n\nAll of the reputable programs will require an application fee, application, essay (or series of short essays), and transcripts from previous coursework (undergraduate and graduate school).
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Apply to Stanford, Berkeley, CalTech, and MIT.\nThese might be reaches but based on the info you've provided, you have a good fighting chance.  If you have the opportunity, try to boost you SAT IIs to 700s; it should increase your chances.  USC won't be easy to get into but it shouldn't be as hard as Stanford.\n\nAt most of those schools with your scores/GPA, you'd count as an average freshman who's attending the school (and it's not bad to be average, since they obviously got in last year).\n\nApply to 2-4 other decent to good schools as an assurance you'll get in somewhere.  These might be ones that are near you geographically.\n\nFor you, I'd suggest a big university, if only in part because of your major.  Small private colleges work best for liberal arts majors and not for math and science people.  Whatever benefit you'd get out of a small school is outweighed by the greater resources of a big university.  If you graduate from the four top schools I mentioned, you should also have employers begging you to work for them after graduation.\n\nHope this helps.  Best of luck.
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Well, I am in the  same situation as you. I graduated from a CUNY school a couple years back with a horrible GPA. I need a decent GPA to get into a good graduate school. The options seem to be \n\nStudy really hard for the gmat/gre  and pass with a really good score with the help of something like Kaplan. And try and get some good recommendations and get help writing a great admissions essay.\n\n\nStart somewhat from scratch and get another degree.\n\nIt seems though that you have already decided to get another Bachelor's degree. What you will do is to file for readmission as a second degree student  at the school you graduated from and you will continue as if you never left the school.However, you if there were changes in the liberal arts requirements since you graduated, you will have to take those, unless there is some sort of grandfather clause, excusing you from this. As far as the pre-req you alrady have credit for them. With the exception of maybe science and  computer courses they MAY  have a time limit on how long those credits are valid for. Check with the registrar and admissions about the time limit  for those classes. If you plan on doing so for the fall I would advise you to do so quickly, registration for the fall is taking place. I don't know what school you are applying to but, the response is pretty quick for the readmission if you are in good standing with the school  i.e not owing money . You can also check to see if the form is available on the schools website (registrar's  section)  and the fee is pretty low. Hope I was helpful and good luck !
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Do every practice you can find.\nThen ask yourself why you feel you need to get 750.
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You can get into plenty of good colleges with 1180 combined math/verbal score.  59% is not Ivy League, but that's ok.  There are plenty of good colleges that would love to have you. Recommendations, high school grades and the types of classes you take in high school are also admission factors. \n\nTake it again?  Sure.  There's no harm and experience is worth something. Some colleges take the best partial scores and add them together to make your composite score.  So, if one time you make 630/550 and the next time you score 550/630, they count it as if you had 630/630.\n\nGet the results from your test and see where you did the best.  Did you run out of time in some sections and need to pace yourself better?
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Jordan, Please be very, very careful with this. You really can't get a true MBA degree totally online. If you go to the websites for universities offering 100% online business degrees, you'll notice that they offer a "Master's Certificate." This is not an MBA and will not lead to professional certification.\n\n"Real" Schools of Business offering true MBAs will have many courses online, but will also require a certain portion of the degree to be earned through face-2-face classes. Believe it or not, accreditation for business schools is very tough and demanding; thus the standards are rather high. There are a lot of "diploma mills" out there -- be careful.\n\nAlso, to answer another question you had... Yes, even though you're an MD you still have to take the GMAT. You may know about gastroenterology; but they need to find out if you know anything about "Flux Vertical Integration" and "Debenture Analysis."\n\nThe tests are not pass/fail. You will get a score rather like your MCATs. And yes, most of the prep materials you can buy commercially will serve you well. There is no valid statistical data indicating that special test-prep classes increase performance. Study the prep books on your own.   \n\nHope this answer helps. Cheers, mate.
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if you mainly want to improve your fluency in english for the gmat you can hardly do better thatn use the bbc webpages.\n\nthe news pages are very interesting to read, and written in a clear and limpid english.\n\nfeature articles from some of the other pages will take you into more advanced usage when you are ready for that.
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460 is quite low; however, there are schools that would accept it. Check with your chosen schools to see how close you are to the median. If these scores are below the median for your schools, you'll need to improve your scores. Invest in a preparation course and get the scores you want. \ngood luck
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Although probably not a guarantee, you'll need the obvious high SAT scores, high GPA, a multitude of extracurricular activities, and a lot of community service. UCs also probably look for leadership and work experience, so try getting those things boosted up as well.\n\nAnd pray hard.
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The GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) was designed by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) to provide them with a selection test for candidates applying for MBA programs. It has grown in popularity with business schools and it is now a requirement for over 1,800 MBA programs world-wide.\n\nThere are business schools that have more lenient admissions procedures and do not require the GMAT but, at least in the States, this often signifies a lower quality or less demanding MBA program.\n\nMost good MBA programs will ask for a GMAT score. If you are in any doubt as to whether you need to take the test check with business schools you aim to apply to.\n\nThe bottom line is that if you want to apply for an MBA at a quality business school you will almost certainly have to do the GMAT.\n\nThe GMAT is valid for 5 years so you can take it up to 5 years before you apply to business school.
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3.5 probably won't cut it, especially considering that most of the students who apply to Stanford have taken extremely tough classes and still have a 4.0. But the important thing is being a well-rounded student. Are you an officer in a lot of clubs? How are your SAT scores? You'll have to score around 2200 to make up for your low GPA. Definitely apply! It's better than always wondering if you might have made it. Good luck!
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get a better Gmat score.  Top 10 schools average 700 or so.\n\n670 is aan 89% percentile.\n\nThen write to the schools as each school is different.
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have you talked to anyone that is currently in or recently graduated from an top MBA program?\n\ncuz its not all about grades, its about the school you went to for your undergrad degree, your work experiences, your academic and professional recommendations as well.  I had a friend with a 2.7 gpa with a bio-chem major score 95% bracket on his GMATs and tons of work experience get into a top 10 MBA program.  And others who did better not get in.
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It's probably not a set score (they're usually somewhat flexible if you excel in other areas) but since it is Ivy League, I would say it has to be pretty high for you to have a good shot. My old friends that went to Ivy League schools got a 1380 and a 1400, for instance.
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The top 5: Harvard, Stanford, Penn, MIT, Northwestern, and Chicago.  The other top 45 B-Schools, according to US News & World report, can be found by using the link below.  \n\nAs for getting in, well...all programs have different strengths and weaknesses, but generally, having good "real world" work experience, a good academic background, and a drive that comes through in your app (I once knew someone who was waitlisted at the U of Michigan [#11 on the list], but requested an interview, which was not required of applicants, and therefore gained admission by showing drive, confidence, and determination).\n\nGood luck!
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You can sometimes transfer, and sometimes not. It depends on what you're going to grad school for, and the school you end up applying to. \n\nFor example, NYU's MBA program accepts transfer credits. Columbia's does not.  \n\nStrayer, though, I'd be concerned about. That's one of the online schools, yes? Not such a great rep, academically. And I don't believe they're AACSB accredited, so no decently ranked MBA program will look at them. If MBA or another business field is your preference. If it's another major you're looking at, check their accreditation for that. It's important. \n\nI do believe it would be better for you to take some undergraduate classes and do well in them, working at the same time so you get some good experience under your belt. But your best bet is to call the admissions office of the school you want to get into. Ideally, if they are local, try to make an in-person appointment. Ask them, frankly, what they suggest you do to make yourself a stronger candidate. Bring up your ideas and see what they say.\n\nI did something similar. Although my undergraduate GPA, unlike yours, was quite high, I had very few math or business classes. And since my GMAT verbal/writing scores were very high but my GMAT math scores were piss-poor, I took a few accounting and statistics classes, via continuing education, before I applied. And on my essays, I highlighted the high grades I got in those classes (hoping they'd overcome my bad GMAT math). And it worked. I got into a very good MBA program. \n\nI suspect you may be able to do the same. Work and, at night, take some undergraduate, continuing ed classes in the subjects you know grad schools like to see (and which, perhaps, you suck at). Do everything you can to ace those classes, including working with the professor or a tutor if need be. Then apply.