<p>i will be a freshman this fall at dartmouth college and i plan on majoring in computer science and minoring in economics.
The grad schools I want to get in are Stanford, MIT,Carnegie Mellon, Harvard</p>
<p>I only got a 650 on my quantitive section of the Math GRE. Is that score any good and is there a cause for concern.</p>
<p>I plan on doing internships reserach and working hard for a 4.0 g.p.a with tons of EC's. I also plan on joining the Mathematics Society this fall.</p>
<p>650 is pretty bad. Most CS applicants at those places will have 780 or 800. Why did you take the GREs before even starting university?</p>
<p>I don't think your current GRE scores matter because you will certainly retake the test in your junior or senior year of college, won't you? In the meantime you will have plenty of opportunity to improve your quantitative skills (CS and econ should do the trick).</p>
<p>But I second sarbruis' question - how come you have already taken the GRE?</p>
<p>Yea that score is pretty pitiful. How'd you get into Dartmouth?</p>
<p>There's almost no chance whatsoever that you get accepted to those schools with such a low score. I assume you were just trying to take the test to see what its like and I understand that. But since you recently took the SAT and the GRE is very similar, I'm somewhat shocked by your score.</p>
<p>Oh maybe you took the GRE Math subject test and not the general GRE Math section? If that's the case, then a 650 is very impressive for a high school senior.</p>
<p>On a serious note: I'm sorry if I offended you. But it's rather surprising to me that someone could get into Dartmouth as a CS major and then score a 650 on the GRE math section. I see getting in the low 700's, but 650 is far below average, especially for a ugrad Ivy Leaguer and someone with aspirations to go to those schools. Those schools have averages around 780. But maybe when you take it in a 2-3 years you'll do much better. But take solace in the fact that your Writing score will evidently be high!</p>
<p>hilarious post. props dontno. this is one of the best on this forum...we could use more of this kind of stuff. </p>
<p>dartmouth 12...i love you man. good thing your PM was posted otherwise we would never have known about it. best of luck to you at dartmouth, or wherever it is you're going next year, and be sure to take your freshman writing class seriously.</p>
<p>hmm.. the quant section of the math GRE is that easy? let's say I got 780 in SAT 1 math, 800 in SAT 2 Math (i) and 790 in SAT 2 Math (ii).. Am i 'expected' to do well in the GRE quant section without any practice?</p>
<p>APOLOGY TO DARTMOUTH 12 (AND RESPONSE TO YOU):</p>
<p>I actually just realized a mistake I made in my assessment of your low score on the GRE Math section. (A digression first). I do not however take back my assertion that a 650 is pitiful if you want to be admitted to those grad schools.</p>
<p>A little background. When I took the SATs 6 years ago, there were quantitative comparison questions where you compare two columns. That is also on the GRE. When I began studying for the GRE, I went through almost the exact same studying at for the SAT (b/c the questions are almost identical in type, but not difficulty). Thus, when i looked at your score, I subconsciously assumed that your SAT prep was sufficient for getting a very high score on the GRE. If you had not seen the comparison questions before (which I guess you hadn't), that sufficiently explains your very low score. I am sorry for making that mistake.</p>
<p>Top engineering graduate schools typically have very high average math GRE scores. I'd say maybe around 770? It doesn't test you on any math you learned in college; if I remember correctly, there's no calculus, or even anything remotely near the difficulty of calculus.</p>
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