Those Pesky GPA & GMAT Averages

GPAs & GMATs For The Top 50 U.S. Business Schools

Rank & School               GMAT      Range              GPA      Range               Selectivity
  1. Harvard 724 550 — 780** 3.67 NA 11.5%
  2. Stanford 729 680 — 770 3.69 3.40 — 3.94 7.1%
  3. Chicago 720 680 — 760 3.52 3.06 — 3.90 23.0%
  4. UPenn 718 660 — 760* 3.60 3.05 — 3.90* 20.0%
  5. Northwestern 708 650 — 760 3.69 3.10 — 3.89 22.9%
  6. MIT 710 663 — 760 3.53 3.14 — 3.88 15.6%
  7. Columbia 715 680 — 760 3.50 3.10 — 3.80 20.8%
  8. Dartmouth 717 680 — 760 3.49 3.13 — 3.80 20.4%
  9. UC-Berkeley 715 679 — 760 3.61 3.30 — 3.89 13.8%
10. Duke 690 640 — 740 3.42 2.94 — 3.86 27.5%
11. Cornell 694 640 — 740 3.29 2.71 — 3.79 27.6%
12. Virginia 703 640 — 750 3.45 3.10 — 3.83 26.6%
13. Michigan 703 650 — 750 3.40 2.80 — 3.80 40.6%
14. New York 720 680 — 760 3.51 3.15 — 3.84 15.7%
15. Yale 717 660 — 760 3.55 3.22 — 3.79 21.3%
16. Carnegie Mellon 696 630 — 750 3.26 2.76 — 3.75 26.7%
17. UCLA 704 660 — 750 3.56 3.23 — 3.88 22.6%
18. Texas 692 630 — 750 3.40 2.87 — 3.84 28.6%
19. UNC 692 640 — 750 3.34 2.73 — 3.86 42.6%
20. Emory 677 606 — 740 3.38 2.96 — 3.85 34.2%
21. Indiana 664 580 — 730 3.33 2.89 — 3.76 38.5%
22. Georgetown 683 640 — 730 3.32 2.86 — 3.80 49.4%
23. Vanderbilt 682 630 — 730 3.37 2.84 — 3.79 37.1%
24. Notre Dame 687 610 — 750 3.26 2.60 — 3.84 35.2%
25. Southern California 690 640 — 730 3.34 2.90 — 3.72 29.5%

Source: Business schools ranked by PoetsandQuants and reporting to U.S. News & World Report for the Class of 2014, GMAT & GPA averages, GMAT and GPA ranges are for the middle 80th percentile

Notes: * Estimate by P&Q ** HBS has reported a 730 median for the Class of 2015, with a top-to-bottom range of 550 to 780 for admitted students.

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