Following the onset of the pandemic, Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management waived the GMAT and GRE exams. The school has recently added the waiver policy in its website, thus joining the top 25 MBA programs in the U. S.
The new admission norms are applicable to all the three full-time residential programs hosted at Johnson; two-year MBA program and one-year accelerated MBA program at Ithaca, New York and the Cornell Tech MBA at New York City.
However, the school has clearly stated that the applicants may request a waiver “without negative bias.” The two-year MBA program offered at Johnson is ranked 12th best in the U.S. By Poets&Quants. The institute now joins MIT Solan, UVA Darden, Michigan Ross, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, UNC Kenan-Flagler and several others in providing the applicants the alternative of avoiding the test if they satisfy certain conditions.