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Originally Posted by Antidope
Originally Posted by pullupj8
Originally Posted by FlyNY
For those of you who have taken the GMAT and are in/graduated business school, what are your professions now and what is your salary? Is grad school really worth it?
I took the GMAT in 2007 and did fairly well (720). Started b-school in 2009 (top 25 full-time MBA program), interned at a Fortune 100 firm, and graduated in May 2011. Signed with one of the top consulting firms in January 2011, right before starting my last (and most fun) semester in school. Starting salary was $130k + $40k sign-on bonus.
I used the following for my GMAT prep:
Kaplan - practice exams were more difficult than the real thing
Princeton Review - opposite of Kaplan
The Official Guide for GMAT Review - spot-on as far as level of difficulty
I studied for 3 months or so. An hour or so after work during the week, and 10-12 hours most weekends. Took practice exams once every two weeks to track my progress. I was scoring in the 700 - 740 range on the official practice exams, so I wasn't surprised with the score I ended up with. Could have been better, but plus/minus 20 points is not a big deal, IMO.What firm is this?
Originally Posted by CurbYourEnthusiasm
if you are a naturally good writer youll do fine. i took it cold turkey, bombed the math, got perfect writing and near perfect verbal.....school's dean called me all geeked about my application
they wanted me to take a year of prereqs doe
nope.
Just sent you a message, Im looking to do this after i graduate, 1st year right now, MC recruiting starting soon, would love to chat.Originally Posted by pullupj8
Originally Posted by Antidope
Originally Posted by pullupj8
I took the GMAT in 2007 and did fairly well (720). Started b-school in 2009 (top 25 full-time MBA program), interned at a Fortune 100 firm, and graduated in May 2011. Signed with one of the top consulting firms in January 2011, right before starting my last (and most fun) semester in school. Starting salary was $130k + $40k sign-on bonus.
I used the following for my GMAT prep:
Kaplan - practice exams were more difficult than the real thing
Princeton Review - opposite of Kaplan
The Official Guide for GMAT Review - spot-on as far as level of difficulty
I studied for 3 months or so. An hour or so after work during the week, and 10-12 hours most weekends. Took practice exams once every two weeks to track my progress. I was scoring in the 700 - 740 range on the official practice exams, so I wasn't surprised with the score I ended up with. Could have been better, but plus/minus 20 points is not a big deal, IMO.What firm is this?
Sorry, i'm not comfortable divulging my firm. But it's one of these firms (Vault Consulting 50 top 5): Bain, McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte Consulting, and Monitor. Post-MBA compensation at these firms and other top-ranked ones (AT Kearney, Oliver Wyman, Booz, etc.) are all in the $125-$135k (base) and $25-$40k (sign-on) range. With that said, i-banking offers were even more impressive ($170-$180k base). Thought about going that route, but i didnt have much luck landing interviews. Most likely because i had no prior finance/banking experience.
Originally Posted by FlyNY
For those of you who have taken the GMAT and are in/graduated business school, what are your professions now and what is your salary? Is grad school really worth it?
Originally Posted by ThrowedInDaGame
Originally Posted by FlyNY
For those of you who have taken the GMAT and are in/graduated business school, what are your professions now and what is your salary? Is grad school really worth it?
The MBA's at my job start at 110K base and get 100% bonus, 30k sign on.
So lets say ~250 all in.
If 250k is worth it for you, then I'd go to business school
I don't think anybody has taken either of his two post seriously.Originally Posted by jordanhendrix
Originally Posted by CurbYourEnthusiasm
if you are a naturally good writer youll do fine. i took it cold turkey, bombed the math, got perfect writing and near perfect verbal.....school's dean called me all geeked about my application
they wanted me to take a year of prereqs doe
nope.if your talking about b school they don't care about the writing part unless you get a VERY low score. If he was peeked about your test results you wouldn't be asked to take a YEAR of pre-reqs come on dude. They like high scores, math is the MOST important.
Im in B school right now, top 20 , 720 Gmat,
Use MGMT and GMATCLUB.
they are the best.
Good to know. I have some letters of rec lined up from mentors, but I'm gonna really need to crush the GMAT cause my undergrad GPA is garbage so I'm trying to make sure whatever I invest in is quality materials
^ My mentor who got into Stanford gave me those books. Have yet to go through them, but content looks good.