Do grad Schools Post GRE Score for Admitted Students?

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<p>Unlike the SAT scores being posted on most university's website for undergraduate applicants or admitted students, I don't seem to be able to find information on GRE scores for grad applicants. </p>

<p>It looks like the Quantitative score is more forgiving than the Verbal. Do grad school care what the applicant's verbal score is if he/she is an Engineering or Science major? Or the Q score if the applicant is a humanities major? Do grad schools look at the combined score as a total, as in the SAT? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I think the scores are generally posted according to the field of study.</p>

<p>Applicants at most decent engineering schools have nearly perfect GREs. THey are much more forgiving on Verbal. </p>

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<p>US News has some GRE info on their premier online version. For engineering schools the only show the Quant scores.</p>

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<p>I believe the value depends upon the grad program and school. Everyone has a different judgment call. I’m in a field where we care pretty much equally about all parts of the GRE. But in our field, it is pretty obvious that all matter. </p>

<p>I can see a quantitatively focused PhD programs putting the main focus on math, but I can’t imagine them simply disregarding verbal or analytical writing. Even academic engineers have to be able to write, and possess reasonable verbal reasoning abilities. I think someone scoring below average on any of the GRE subtests would flag a future problem and there are simply more than enough students out there that can do quite well across the board.</p>

<p>I just found this, which seems to provide evidence that all fields care about all scores, just weighted differently:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gre.jpg[/url]”>http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gre.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I can only speak for my more narrow experience- three schools in my field- but we look only at the subtests, and have never considered the overall score.</p>