<p>I heard that if you have an 800Q, and 600V, getting any higher than 600 in V wouldn't help your application. By the way, I am talking about engineering. </p>
<p>I always thought that it was like SAT's. Even if you are going for an engineering major, you would still want to get a perfect score to get into college. If you were going into engineering and you had a 650M, 800W, and 800CR, for a 2250. I'm positive that they would still let you in.
haha, i don't exactly know where I was getting with what I just wrote in this paragraph, but is studying strongly for an 800 800 6 a waste of a time if you can get 800/600/6?</p>
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Is studying strongly for an 800 800 6 a waste of a time if you can get 800/600/6?
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Yes.</p>
<p>This is not like the SAT, and it's not like undergrad admissions. Getting a spectacular GRE score is a great accomplishment, but nobody is going to let you into a graduate program on the basis of your score alone. And if your application is weak, a great GRE score is just about the last thing that's going to save it.</p>
<p>So, you're saying that the GRE contributes much less to the Graduate admissions thann the SAT does to Undergraduate admissions?</p>
<p>How sad. haha. In undergrad, it was like if you got a 2400 on your SAT's, and you had decent GPA, and some EC's. It would be enough to get you into at least half, if not more, of the Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Engr schools don't really care much about the verbal and writing sections. As long as your quant is somewhere near 800, you'll be ok. And there's no reason any engineering major doesn't get that because the GRE math is simpler than the SAT math section. </p>
<p>Even just considering the math section, a good score won't get you into a grad school, but a bad score may keep you out. There are just so many more important factors for grad school admissions, and I doubt the GRE is a good indicator of grad school performance.</p>
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In undergrad, it was like if you got a 2400 on your SAT's, and you had decent GPA, and some EC's. It would be enough to get you into at least half, if not more, of the Ivy League schools.
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Again, this is not undergrad. Graduate programs really aren't that interested in your intelligence and book smarts per se, and they're certainly not interested in your well-roundedness -- they're interested only in your scholarship ability within your field and your ability to successfully complete your graduate studies. </p>
<p>Of course, really great scholars tend to also be pretty smart and get pretty good GRE scores, but getting three knock-your-socks-off recommendations that say you're the best thing to hit your field since sliced bread will be far more important to your application than any GRE score.</p>