Three Days Left to Apply for Beat The GMAT 2012 Scholarship

Beat The GMAT (BTG), the world’s largest social network for MBA applicants, is now accepting applications for its seventh annual Beat The GMAT Scholarship Competition. This year, BTG will award scholarship packages for six winners, valued at more than $11,000. Each of the winners will receive one GMAT prep course, an admissions consulting package and a $250 GMAT voucher. BTG will accept applications until Monday night, April 23rd, and winners will be announced on April 30th.

“Giving back to the community is an important part of our mission,” says Eric Bahn, Founder of Beat The GMAT.  “We believe that our annual scholarship is an important initiative to help talented individuals achieve their dreams of going to an amazing business school.” 

Since 2006, Beat The GMAT has been able to distribute $193,000 in scholarships to MBA applicants.

The following companies made generous donations to make these prizes possible: Admit Advantage, Clear Admit, Kaplan, Knewton, Manhattan GMAT, Master GMAT, MBA Admit, mbaMission, Precision Essay, The Princeton Review, and Veritas Prep.  For a full list of prizes, click here.

To learn more and to apply for a scholarship, please visit: http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/scholarship

The GMAT Is Changing in June 2012

The Next Generation GMAT launches in June 2012. The biggest change is that the Issue Essay will be replaced by Integrated Reasoning, a new section with four new question types designed to measure your ability to evaluate information from multiple sources. Unlike the rest of the exam, this section will not be computer-adaptive.

Weigh your options
Should you take the current GMAT or wait for the new test? The answer depends on when you plan to apply to business school.

Planning to apply for admission to business school in the fall of 2012 or 2013?
Go ahead and take the test as soon as you feel prepared. For the next two years, business schools will expect most candidates to apply with the current GMAT.

Want to avoid the unknown?
Take the GMAT now. You don’t know how the Integrated Reasoning section will impact your score.

Hoping to bank your GMAT score for a few years?
Then, we recommend taking the Next Generation GMAT. Most of the other applicants (aka your competition), will have taken the new exam and, even though scores are valid for five years, there’s a good possibility that a school might ask you to retake the test so that they can compare your Integrated Reasoning score to that of other applicants.

You can also attend the Free webinar tomorrow, Dec 13 by kaplan.
Kaplan Webinar on New Section of GMAT