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GMAT Waiver Information for Full-Time and Professional MBA Candidates
The round 3 and final application deadline for the Full-Time MBA program is March 25. The second priority deadline for the Professional and Executive MBA programs is March 7. We respect your experience and your time. Candidates to our MBA programs may be eligible for a standardized test waiver. We also accept the Executive Assessment for our Executive and Professional MBA programs.
If you would like to be considered for a GMAT waiver, you must submit a GMAT Waiver Request Form along with your resume and transcript(s). Test waivers will be considered based upon the following criteria:
- Seven or more years of full-time work experience
- A graduate degree in a STEM or quantitative field
- A terminal degree (e.g., MD, JD, PhD)
- A quantitatively oriented professional certification (e.g. CPA, CFA)
- Other graduate-level standardized test scores demonstrating the comparable quantitative ability (e.g. MCAT)
We will notify you of your eligibility for the waiver upon review of your information, you can expect to hear the results within two to three weeks.
If you feel that your work history and previous coursework are not good indicators of your readiness for the Professional or Full-Time MBA programs, you should consider taking the GMAT, GRE or Executive Assessment.
If you are applying to the Executive MBA program, you will be required to submit the Resume Pre-Assessment Form instead of this GMAT Waiver Request.
Please Note: You must have an active Full-Time MBA or Professional MBA application for the 2022 application cycle to access the GMAT Waiver Request Form.
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