Hard Data for Hard Decisions

They are the applicants who keep you up at nights: The ambitious entrepreneur with a 4.0 undergraduate GPA but low GMAT score, or the energetic undergraduate with the tantalizing GMAT scores but dismal GPA.

GMAC offers you a custom powertool to make tough calls ─ or justify the calls you’ve already made. The GMAT Validity Study Service is a statistical analysis of your student information that is:

• Immediately applicable. See right away how GMAT scores and undergraduate grade-point averages correlate to mid-program grade-point averages.
• Transparent. Add science to the art of admissions. Data can protect you against charges of unfairness, improve your decision-making process, and help you quantify what you do for accreditation purposes.
• Customizable. Add your own predictive factors, grouping variables, or criteria. The more data you add, the more precise the study will be.
• Statistically rigorous. VSS methodology has been peer reviewed and published in well-respected journals. (Read details in our GMAT Validity Research Reports.)
• Full-service. A GMAC psychometrician will work with you to submit as many data points as you choose.
• Fast. Get your personalized study within two weeks of submitting your data.
• Free to any school using GMAT scores.  

Know What Factors Into Success

If your school or program uses GMAT scores, we can help you. Just submit your students’ scores, undergraduate GPA, mid-program GPA, and other variables you choose and GMAC will conduct a statistical analysis quantifying the importance of each variable in your program(s) and predicting success based on combinations of those variables. A VSS study can also tell you which students may be at risk for academic difficulty.

Our Validity Study Service report includes an easy-to-use matrix showing the probability, by GMAT score and undergraduate GPA, that a student will fall in the lowest quartile in your program by mid-point grades.

Adjust With Confidence

The Validity Study Service can also give you hard data on:

• How to weight variables like test scores, work, and grades for different student populations (male/female, traditional/non-traditional, and domestic/international).
• How different programs at your school should weight different admissions factors differently.
• How important some specific variables are in predicting success.

Show Your Strength

Protect your decision-making process and contribute to accreditation cases by documenting how well your admission procedures work. The Validity Study Service can tell you precisely:

• How well specially admitted students do in your program.
• How closely GMAT scores and grades correlate with success in your program compared with other business programs.
• How well your admission procedures work.

Call +1 (703) 668-9788 or email vss@gmac.com for general information or personal assistance.

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