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GMAT kicks GRE into touch

By Della Bradshaw

Published: September 1 2009 17:41 | Last updated: September 1 2009 17:41

Although top-tier business schools such as Harvard, Wharton, Stanford and MIT Sloan have decided to adopt the GRE test as well as the GMAT, there is little appetite for the test in the majority of the US’s top business schools, according to a report by Kaplan, the test preparation company.

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions conducted a survey of admissions officers at 260 of the top MBA programmes in the US. Some 24 per cent already accept GRE (Graduate Record Exam) test scores in addition to GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) scores. Of the remaining schools, however, only 4.3 per cent said they were considering adopting GRE.

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