GMAT's

Have been studying for the GMAT's, the standarized test required for admission to all business schools. It is incredibly hard! Who am I kidding? Why am I bothering? One whole section is math based and well...I suck at math.

All the schools I'm applying to (except the ONE in Virginia), require high scores. Should I even bother applying to these places? What is the point, if I already know I'm not going to score this unbelievably high score? Or should I tell the admission committee's that I'm not a great standarizied test taker but that those scores are not indictative of how well I will do in their program. They just need to see my history to see this statement is true...I did average on my SAT's, which are suppose to be this great harbinger of how well you will do in college. According to my SAT's, I would have been a "C" student - but instead I graduated third in my class, with honors.

These standarizied tests simply grade how smart you are on the I.Q. scale, but they don't show how much you'll work, you're effort. I remember these kids in my high school class who were in the gifted and talented program, because they had such high I.Q.'s, half of them were below me in ranking. They might have been smart but they didn't care about doing anything (a lot of them were known drug users). I know I'm not genetically smart but I also know that I will work VERY hard to do well. Shouldn't that count for something? Isn't that the kind of person you want in your MBA program?