How to send GMAT scores to B-Schools

When you are at the testing center to take GMAT, you will have the option to select up to five b-schools to send your scores to for free. You select the codes of the recipient colleges before you start your exam. If you don’t select any college choose to send a score report after the exam is over, you will have to pay a fee of $28 per college afterwards.

So it is obvious that you can save $140 by selecting colleges before the exam begins. A lot of students taking the GMAT exam don’t utilize this opportunity because they don’t want to submit the GMAT score to the colleges without first considering if they are good enough or not. So it would wise to select the colleges before exam only if you are confident you will get an amazing score.

Plus it is important to mention here that even if you decide to retake the exam, you can’t send only the best scores to the colleges. GMAT report will reflect all the GMAT exams you have attempted in the last five years.

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So how does this process of sending scores actually works? Once you select a college to share your scores with, they are simply given permission to view your record. The colleges have access to the online scores database and your scores become available to view once they decide to check them. So nothing is mailed to the schools immediately.

The colleges don’t check the scores until you submit the complete college application. They will verify your score if they might consider admitting you.

So what is the best thing to do? Pick five schools for no charge at the testing center. These should be the shortlisted colleges you wish to get into. If you retake the exam again after some time, pick five different colleges. If you score higher, the new score will be considered valid. So once you send your college applications, you can use the GMAT scores to maximum of 10 colleges.

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