The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is used by many graduate schools of business as one of their admission criteria. GMAT scores for selected undergraduate majors are shown below. Using your own reasoning and concepts in this chapter, criticize each of the following statements.
a. “Philosophy majors must not be interested in business since so few take the GMAT.”
b. “More students major in engineering than in English.”
c. “If marketing students majored in physics, they would score better on the GMAT.”
d. “Physics majors would make the best managers.”
GMAT Scores and Undergraduate Major, 1984-1989 | ||
Major | Average GMAT Score | Number Taking Test |
Accounting | 483 | 25,233 |
Computer Science | 508 | 7,573 |
Economics | 513 | 16,432 |
Engineering | 544 | 29,688 |
English | 507 | 3,589 |
Finance | 489 | 20,001 |
Marketing | 455 | 15,925 |
Philosophy | 546 | 588 |
Physics | 575 | 1,223 |
Source: Graduate Management Admission Council, Admission Office Profile of Candidates, October 1989, pp. 27–30.
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