Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Indians beware!!

Another bad news for us desi applicants, Neo2000 found out that average GMAT for Indians is 730. I mean seven fishing thirty! And thats the average? Well there goes my one big advantage. 

Actually you can kind of see this at Pagalguy's Forums where everyone and his neighbor's nanny posts a score well above 700. We have been raised on such competitiveness that we complete the standardised tests well.

Or, a darwinian explanation would be that Indian education system selects and rewards a more standard tester, so our institutes are full of bland personalities with brilliant testing abilities

2 comments:

Soni said...

Yes Indian GMATs are high because there is so much focus on academics in India. What will set an Indian applicant apart from others is ECs. Most adcoms prefer an Indian with a 690 GMAT, solid academics, and tremendous EC over a 770 GMAT, perfect grades, and no ECs.

Starwalker said...

yeah.... our tendency to put score above everything else does come to bite us.....