GRE vs. GMAT
Categories: GMAT
Business schools are now contemplating accepting GRE as an alternative to GMAT for screening business school applications. The news becomes more interesting when the schools in question are the top schools like Harvard and Wharton.
Harvard (Harvard MBA Essay Questions 2009) is one of the few schools which has already started accepting GRE test scores to evaluate applications to MBA and 2+2 program. According to Business Week, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton (Wharton MBA Essay Questions 2009) plans to allow allow applicants to submit GRE scores for MBA admission in Fall 2010. Darden School of Business (Darden MBA Essay Questions 2009), Queen’s School of Business (Queen’s MBA Essay Questions 2009) and Tulane’s Freeman School of Business have also joined the club by accepting GRE on a case by case basis. Stanford GSB (Stanford MBA Essay Questions 2009) and MIT’s Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan MBA Essay Questions 2009) also accept GRE scores in lieu of GMAT.
Schools are looking to attract more dual degree students, college freshers and international applicants ( from countries with no GMAT access) through this move. Though GMAT still remains the preferred mode of evaluating applicants’ reasoning, math and language skills; schools are open to accept GRE .
To aid the evaluation, ETS has developed a tool that will measure applicant’s verbal and quantitative scores in GRE and predict the score they might receive on the GMAT. Here is a copy of ETS’ ‘GRE comparison tool and table‘.
It will be interesting to watch if, with time, GRE will be accepted by more schools and if GRE can evaluate applicants’ ability to survive the rigors of an MBA program.
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