GPAs & GMATs: What You Need To Get In

The Raw Stats for the Top 25 Business Schools in the U.S.

Rank and School	GMAT Average	GMAT Range*	GPA Average	GPA Range*
1. Harvard	724	490 — 790**	3.66	NA
2. Stanford GSB	730	680 — 770	3.70	3.36 — 3.97
3. Chicago (Booth)	719	670 — 760	3.52	3.08 — 3.90
4. UPenn (Wharton)	718	680 — 760	3.56	3.18 — 3.87
5. Columbia	716	680 — 760	3.50	3.00 — 3.80
5. MIT (Sloan)	710	660 — 750	3.51	3.10 — 3.86
7. Northwestern	712	660 — 760	3.54	3.19 — 3.88
8. Dartmouth (Tuck)	718	660 — 760	3.52	3.20 — 3.84
9. Berkeley (Haas)	715	675 — 750	3.64	3.39 — 3.90
10. Duke (Fuqua)	689	630 — 740	3.44	3.06 — 3.79
11. Virginia (Darden)	701	643 — 750	3.40	3.00 — 3.80
12. Michigan (Ross)	703	650 — 750	3.40	3.00 — 3.80
13. Cornell (Johnson)	691	630 — 740	3.29	2.78 — 3.77
14. Yale School of Mgt.	719	680 — 760	3.52	3.10 — 3.87
15. New York (Stern)	719	670 — 760	3.42	3.02 — 3.79
16. UCLA (Anderson)	704	650 — 750	3.50	3.20 — 3.86
17. Carnegie (Tepper)	686	620 — 740	3.35	2.73 — 3.84
18. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	689	630 — 740	3.31	2.80 — 3.80
19. Texas (McCombs)	692	640 — 740	3.43	2.87 — 3.85
20. Emory (Goizueta)	681	610 — 730	3.30	2.68 — 3.70
21. Indiana (Kelley)	670	590 — 730	3.32	2.80 — 3.78
22. USC (Marshall)	687	630 — 740	3.30	2.93 — 3.74
23. Georgetown (McDonough)	686	640 — 730	3.31	2.85 — 3.78
24. Wisconsin-Madison	680	630 — 730	3.33	2.79 — 3.80
25. Vanderbilt (Owen)	695	640 — 760	3.40	2.90 — 3.90

Source: Poets&Quants’ 2011 Ranking of the Best Business Schools and School Reported Data to U.S. News & World Report for classes entering in the fall of 2011 Notes: * Reported ranges for both GMAT and GPA are the 10th and 90th percentile. ** Full range of scores

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