What was your GMAT score? And what schools did you get into or not get into?

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Pwc1 - undergrad seemed to matter unless you had lengthy work experience. I had 10 years of industry before going back to Grad school, gpa undergrad 3.1. Those with 24-36 months and less work seemed to have higher undergrad marks on average.

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700 - HBS

720 - Wharton, Kellogg & Fuqua

700 - Ross, Booth, Yale. Ding at Kellogg.

700 - school of hard knocks.

680 and public university

770 - darden, fuqua, tuck; no stanford or hbs

700 - Wharton; wait list Darden; no HBS

790. Wharton columbia booth haas. No Gsb.

Does undergrad GPA matter? Just curious. I am not applying.

760- hbs

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