<p>Hey y'all, I'm a Columbia graduate and I'm going to be applying to grad schools for a masters in Computer Science: specifically, Harvard SEAS, Stanford and MIT Masters programs (media lab / computational engineering). I am also thinking about a dual-MBA program. Are my GREs competitive for those programs? </p>
<p>I know that with respect to college admissions, SATs weren't the end all be all (I got rejected from quite a few with a 2360!). Is this the case with grad school and GREs? Should I bother retaking the GRE or is my score good enough? Also, my AW score was 4.5 but idk if that matters.</p>
<p>Since your Quantitative is at the 91% level and the Verbal is at the 97%, I would say you are OK with those scores for just about any graduate program. The writing scores is acceptable also.</p>
<p>The schools you mention are highly selective and so just having strong GRE s cores is not enough. Admittedly, the standards for a Masters are probably a bit lower than for a Ph.D., however, when programs have lots of applications, they must make a cut somehow and you might be on the wrong side of that despite a stellar application.</p>
<p>If you have a good GPA and some research experience with strong recommendation letters, you are competitive but not a lock.</p>
<p>thanks man. I have a decent gpa (3.7) but I had attended the engineering school at Columbia, so my classes were pretty rigorous. the truth is, however, I have limited research experience. But I am only applying to the masters programs, which I heard are desperate for applicants since these programs are cash cows. Do you think the (almost zero) research bit will still hurt me significantly?</p>