Pencils tap, fingers drum, a foot bounces—typical exam jitters for aspiring MBA students taking the GMAT. But test-takers who studied at Carnegie Mellon can breathe easier knowing the average for the university’s undergraduates who take the test is 720.9, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. That ranks the CMU test-takers #10 from all undergraduate institutions and ahead of half of the Ivy Leagues: Dartmouth (#12 on the list), Columbia (#17), University of Pennsylvania (#18), and Cornell (#26).
—Shannon Deep (CMU’10, HNZ’11)