<p>Q-170 99%
V-167 97%
AW- 4.0 49%
should i be worrying about my AW score if im applying for a masters or Phd program in engineering in a top school?
gpa is more trhan adequate with good LORs</p>
<p>Where can I find full-length practice tests for the GRE?</p>
<p>I’d like to take it this year</p>
<p>Check out the official ETS website and download the Powerprep II software, it has two full exams</p>
<p>Can anyone let me know if I should retake? I’m looking to apply to multiple Master of Engineering and Management programs, such as Duke’s, Dartmouth’s, etc.
Quant: 161
Verbal: 155</p>
<p>I’m a Biomedical Engineer major, 3.4 GPA, strong recs, research experience and internships with major companies.</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I’m an international student. I took the revised GRE, landed up with a low verbal score. I got 152 (53 percentile, 490 on the old scale.)</p>
<p>I want to apply to a Master’s course in Computer Science.</p>
<p>Do you think my verbal score will hurt my application? I have a decent quant score (163) and AW score. (4.5)</p>
<p>I have a good undergrad GPA and have worked pretty hard on the other aspects of my application. But I’m just really, really worried about my low verbal score.</p>
<p>I want to apply to top 30 schools.</p>
<p>Will a decent AW score offset my low verbal score? Or should I consider applying lower ranked schools based on my verbal scores?</p>
<p>I’m really, really worried/confused. Any kind of help will be appreciated.</p>
<p>Hi, everyone. </p>
<p>Couple of my prospective graduate school recommended subject score,
and rest of them were optional.
I got 87% percentile score on biology.
Still wondering if it’s a good idea to report my subjet score or not.
Way over 90% would have left me no question but 87% is something in-between.
Any clear advices? Thanks.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I am interested in applying to a Masters program in International Relations/Affairs/Development (the name varies depending on the school). In 2010 I received my B.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, with a GPA of 3.1. I have been working for a non-profit organization for the past two years. I believe I can get good recommendations from professors and my employer. My GRE scores were: 158V, 154Q and a 4 for the essay.</p>
<p>What schools do you recommend, or which do I have a good chance?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>You would have no reason to retake. Those scores are competitive for engineers going to the top schools. Take a look at the scores to the specific program your applying to. Biomed average is 149 quant.</p>
<p>I’m applying for MS bioengineering with a 3.34 cum GPA (3.6 major GPA). My GRE is 165 (795) Q, 160 (605) V, and 3.5 AW. I did my undergrad in bioengineering at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Should I retake for the low writing score? I want to apply to top MS programs (Stanford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Duke, etc.)</p>
<p>Nobody cares about the writing score. If they want to know about your writing, they’ll read your writing samples. As long as it’s not a 1.5, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I’m sure that’s true for lower tier and even mid-top tier schools like UCLA, Michigan, UT Austin, etc. but is that still true for the very top schools like Stanford, Berkeley engineering?</p>
<p>3.5AW is a 30% after all…</p>
<p>I already posted this in the GRE Prep subforum, but after noticing this thread I wanted to post it here in hopes that one of the two might be answered in an expeditious manner – so if you frequent the GRE Prep page, I apologize for the duplicity.</p>
<p>I’m a rising freshman this year. I’m looking forward, already, to my GRE (General) because I understand the significance of having a good score in my back pocket. During my junior and senior years I’ll be occupied with writing my senior and honors theses respectively, as well as my research for those papers, studying for my Physics subject exam, and potentially getting my feet wet in graduate courses, all on top of applying and hopefully (and yes, I understand that these awards are extremely, extremely selective – which is why I wish to be able to give them my full attention) interviewing for one or more of the Rhodes/Marshall/Mitchell Scholarships. </p>
<p>My questions are these:</p>
<p>1) Is there such a thing as taking the exam ‘too early’ in the eyes of universities? I realize the normal window is late junior or early senior year, but will colleges give less weight to an exam taken during sophomore (I don’t know that I have the stones to take it as a freshman) year? </p>
<p>2) Should I hold myself to the two exam limit that is often suggested? Do grad adcoms look down on students who take too many sittings of the GRE? Or is the reason for the two exam rule of thumb simply because the GRE isn’t THAT important?</p>
<p>3) How much time should be allotted for studying? Considering I have just over a three year window in which to fit my studying and exam date(s), where is the ideal length of study time? (And I realize the answer to that question might be “It varies for everyone,” which I completely understand.)</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your help, and I apologize for my lack of knowledge (and therefore very general questions).</p>
<p>AW is useless. It’s ignored by a lot of programs because… like I said, if they want to know about your writing ability, reading your writing samples will give them a much better insight than a numerical score issued by random people for an essay you write in about an hour.</p>
<p>Connor:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>There’s no reason to take the GRE that early. I doubt you would be “looked down on” for doing so, but you’re not going to gain anything, either. Why the rush? I don’t understand the “occupied” thing - you should have plenty of time.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, you should hold yourself to that limit. There’s really no reason to take it multiple times, it smacks of obsessiveness and the GRE isn’t generally that important. The only reason I would take it more than twice is if you seriously bomb it both times. At that point, you should be rethinking your strategy anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>All I did was get a Princeton Review GRE prep book a month in advance. That was enough studying for me.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>connor,
Scores only last 5 years, so if you are considering a couple of years off after you get your bachelors you may want to wait a little or your score could expire. Studying obviously depends on how much you know. If you are great at math you might only need a week to review before the exam (it only goes up to geometry), so that judgement on studying time is up to you. You could take a practice test using the free ETS powerprep 2 software, and if you score really well, you may not need to study very much. The GRE isn’t that important, admissions is holistic and other things are more important than your score. </p>
<p>It would be much better for you to gain extensive, relevant research experience in your field of study than to stress studying for a year for an exam that isn’t nearly as valuable as research. You should slow down a little and take your time to enjoy college (you haven’t started yet right?)</p>
<p>@polarscribe: Thank you very much for your help. I suppose the ‘rush’ is a direct outgrowth of the fact that I didn’t understand the importance of standardized tests (specifically SAT II exams) until – at least in my eyes – much too late during high school, since I’m an only child from an area that isn’t exactly known for pumping out Ivy League prospects. I did well enough, but I didn’t have perfects. My scores were, in my eyes, one of a small handful of things that kept me from getting admission to my top schools. I’ve learned from the other mistakes and worked so that I don’t repeat them – or at least their university counterparts – for grad school admissions (not to mention the prestigious scholarships I’m eyeing), so now standardized tests seem like the last loose end to investigate. Thank you again for your insight – I’ll be sure to overuse and abuse practice tests to ensure that I’m ready for the real thing. </p>
<p>@zotzotzot13: Thank you, as well, for your help. That five year number is excellent to know; I wasn’t planning on taking time off, but I’ll certainly be cognizant if I decide to (I suppose the Peace Corps have always seemed alluring). Hopefully, as you noted, I’ll be able to make use of the practice exams available to ensure that I’m as prepared as I can be for the exam. And I’m glad you added that last snippet about research and enjoying the experience. Technically I don’t start for another two weeks, so I do have time to relax, but I already have myself in work mode because I’ve been up at my university getting a jump-start on research for the past month and change. I do, however, finish my stint in four days, at which time I’m planning to enjoy a relaxing, nostalgia-filled week of saying goodbye to friends and my alma mater. That will certainly, at least hopefully, be my time to relax as school comes around the corner. As far as enjoying my time in college, I’ll certainly need to find a balance. Thankfully, though, I enjoy myself most and I am most at peace when I am incredibly busy with all sorts of things. The more I have to do, the more I appreciate everything I’m doing. </p>
<p>Thank you both again for your words of wisdom, and please excuse the personal anecdotes that slipped their way in – it is quite late for me.</p>
<p>The GRE really is just an overgrown, somewhat-more-difficult SAT. My GRE score was within 10 points of my SAT score. If you did well on the SAT, I wouldn’t worry too much.</p>
<p>well I did pretty bad on the reading part of the SAT, and I’m pretty worried. I think it’s a really sad excuse for admission committees to toss your application. In real life, the GRE probably doesn’t count for much, but there probably still is subconscious psychological impact on their opinion of you when they see the score.</p>
<p>How bad is pretty bad? Because I got in a bunch of places with a truly terrible quant score - 540. The programs I was interested in weren’t quant-heavy and basically didn’t care.</p>
<p>If you have a bad verbal score and you’re interested in an English program, you’ll have a problem. If you have a bad verbal score and you’re interested in a geology program, it may not matter as much.</p>
<p>true, but I still feel like could be a factor where a bad score would beat you down more than a good score can keep you afloat.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t remember my SAT reading score. It might have been sub 500s… so I got you beat there in terms of suck.</p>
<p>The writing score would probably be more important though, because grad school = experiments + writing papers. At least that’s the case with me.</p>
<p>But with this new system, the score ranges from 170 to what 140? So if I get something like a 142, at least it won’t look as bad as a 300, right?</p>
<p>this GRE is so stupid… in every way you can possibly imagine.</p>