Which college scores best on the GMAT?

Which College Scores Best on the GMAT? - BusinessWeek

Interesting.

Davesaint

 

If I had to guess I would have swapped Rice and Berkley but otherwise there's no real surprises.

 

Many of these tests rely on graduate students to do their work: writing test questions and then evaluating the answers.

Before the data above has any meaning, consider this:

From which schools are students hired to write questions for the GMAT? Where did the most of the graduate students, who read and grade the GMAT essays, come from? Where do they get their ideas for the questions?

Is it possible they are just writing questions for each other? They are all familiar with the "good answers" because they shared the same lectures, share familiar ideologies, and analyze material in the same way?

Is the grading criteria truly objective or do such tests merely filter out those who analyze problems in a different way?

 

Eh, a better correlation would be how many of these students at these schools used test preparation services prior to sitting the GMAT. Lets not overcomplicate things. People with money, spend money.

 

Maybe it's even simpler than that.

How about "people with high scores on standardized tests, get high scores on standardized tests" ?

All of the schools with top GMAT scores are also schools where high SAT/ACT scores are normally required for admissions.

 

Is there ever a case when smart people score high on tests? I've always been right in the middle, IQ wise, standardized test score wise (maybe a bit low in some instances), grades, looks, etc. There's no such thing as smart people who are actually smart? Or is it that we cannot say smart people score high on tests, because then we might say dumb people score low on tests? Outliers not counted (as they never should be) shouldn't test scores kind of follow a curve with some in the middle (like me average in every way) some at the top and forgive me some at the bottom?

 

I'm sure that the people with the top GMAT scores also tend to be very smart.

On the other hand, I would also bet that many of today's top business executives did not necessarily have top GMAT scores.

 

Yes, there might be some disconnect between what is taught in B-school and what works well in the "real" world. However small that difference may be