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Originally Posted by EdEx
Hello,
thank you for the great forum.
I would like to ask your opinion, do you think that despite of relatively high GMAT score 750 I managed to pull out, I may have difficulties in being admitted to top 15-20 PhD Business programs because the quant part is only 86th and apparently many schools would like to see 90/90 rather than 86/99.
I have a master degree in law from University of Helsinki (Finland), it's the leading school in the country but I guess doesn't say too much to AdComs of US universities. I am beginning to work for my applications for the next deadline, and I would like to have some idea if I should aim at top 30-50 rather than top 15-20.
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I don't believe it should be a great concern to have a somewhat lower quant score as your overall score is very good. At the level of 750 GMAT, you have already cleared any thresholds that your school might have on GMAT scores and you should be fine with that. Regarding your concerns about the lack of brand name recognition, those are somewhat of a valid concern though I would think that they could be addressed by (a) securing recommendation letters from folks who have studied in the US/ are known in the US through their research & (b) by being able to publish any research in a journal. Both of them can be immensely useful in being admitted to a top b-school PhD program.