<p>Does anyone happen to have a list of what graduate schools (for psych/poli sci or philosophy) do not require the GRE? The only one I know of is Brown.
Thanks.</p>
<p>Would you rather severely limit your grad school options than sit for a 3-hour exam whose results no one really cares about anyway, or are you asking for different reasons?</p>
<p>If you can’t study and take the GRE, how do you expect to study and take comps, prelims, or defend your research? Like the last post, the results don’t weigh too heavily in the committee’s decision.</p>
<p>I’m sitting in for the LSAT. Not the GRE. From my understanding, being young will affect my chances of getting into law school since the average age is 25 and I’ll be considerably younger. Therefore, I’m considering applying to graduate schools as well in case I don’t get into law school. Since I’ll be spending my time studying for the LSAT, I’d rather not have to study and sit for the GRE as well. Thus, I asked for list of schools that do not require the GRE.</p>
<p>I kind of doubt your age will keep you out of law school. How young are you? 20? 18? I just don’t think it will be a problem.</p>
<p>And besides, why go to grad school if you really want to be a lawyer?</p>
<p>Last post. I just want to make sure that you know that the GRE isn’t anything like the LSAT: most students don’t prepare for it because it carries little significance and it’s very similar to the undergraduate SAT - and about to become practically identical to the SAT in August.</p>
<p>By the way, what programs are you looking at? Master’s programs are usually more lenient on GRE scores than PhD programs. (Brown would be one example of this.)</p>
<p>And not only that. Would you be getting a graduate degree to prop up your chances to re-application to law school? Hardly any emphasis is placed on your profile besides your LSAT and undergraduate LSAC GPA. You’d be throwing money away if your terminal goal is a JD.</p>
<p>I’ll be 19 when I apply to law school and 20 when I would start my first classes. Most places I have read say that being young can be a disadvantage. I have to prep all of my applications (I have a long list of places I would ideally like to apply), prep for the LSAT, take summer courses, work an internship and sit for the Oct. LSAT. Personally, I wouldn’t like to add an additional test to the mix. Like I said, grad school is my back up plan. If I don’t get into law school, I’ll assume it’s due to age. And if I go for a masters or PhD program, by the time I graduate, I’ll be 22-25, which is a more average age for law school. Would having a graduate degree help me get into law school? Not much. But I’d rather stay in school than go out and get job since usually people who say they will do something later, never actually get around to it. Finances aren’t really an issue, so if I can eat up time by going to grad school, I don’t see why not. For those of you who think that may seem a slightly odd issue, I enjoy studying/learning/etc. so tacking on grad school before law school is mostly for my own enjoyment and learning experience than anything else really.</p>
<p>Citation(s) on where you read that being 20 when attending classes is seen as a disadvantage?</p>
<p>After having been on TLS forums for over a year, there has been no credible authority nor substantive proof there (or LSN) showing that age is a factor.</p>
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<p>If you are going to dabble, don’t even think of a PhD program. Not only are you talking about another 5 years or so, but you’re likely to be greatly disillusioned if you treat it as a learning experience rather than the intense specialization and training in research that it is. Graduate school is as different from college as college is from high school. </p>
<p>I suggest that you focus on your law school applications and use an internship/job in a law-related area as a back-up to strengthen future applications rather than adding specialization that won’t help you in the long run. Unless you’re going to forgo law school altogether if you don’t get in, graduate school in another area is probably not the best option for you.</p>
<p>I know what graduate school entails. And I have the time to take up a law degree and another graduate if I like. I simply asked for a list of graduate schools, besides Brown that do not require the GRE. I believe Oxford and Cambridge also do not require the GRE? </p>
<p>As previously stated, I’m not doing this to strengthen my law school application. Rather because I have the time to do so and would like to do so. I simply asked for a list of schools that do not require the GRE. Not comments or criticism on my decisions. I know what it is that I’m doing.</p>
<p>Schools outside of the US don’t. Most schools in the US that aren’t super-podunk do.</p>
<p>Look, if you post on a board you are going to get a variety of responses, especially when the path you are curious about is abnormal. It’s a little strange to go for another degree when you know your main interest is something else, and even more strange that you would pursue the other degree in place of work experience. I understand that you want to learn and would enjoy it, but your first two posts were a little vague about your thought process, so it’s only normal that people would want to (1) address why you want to pursue a graduate program that requires no GRE and (2) only because you want to kill time until law school.</p>
<p>If you can get into graduate programs of Cambridge, Oxford, and Brown caliber, you should have no problem getting into law school, assuming you don’t bomb the LSAT. </p>
<p>If you are hell-bent on applying to graduate schools, just take the GRE. Compared to the LSAT, the GRE is cake. Studying for the LSAT will prepare you for the verbal/writing portion, and the Quantitative is not hard.</p>
<p>But- law schools would probably much rather see a few years of para legal experience in lieu of your masters.</p>
<p>many of the math questions are over my head…</p>
<p>so without going into WHY… can someone please kindly post a list on universities that do not require GRE for philosophy…</p>
<p>many thanks…</p>
<p>Start looking at philosophy program Web sites - they’ll all list application and admission requirements. It’s not hard.</p>
<p>It’s not that I don’t mind answering questions, but this is a question very easily answered by yourself… you need to spend time and effort looking for programs that meet your criteria. None of us have lists of schools broken down by every imaginable admissions issue just sitting around waiting to copy/paste.</p>
<p>i was responding to a search i was doing and saw this thread … actually signed up to this forum just to see if i could get any info</p>
<p>i would appreciate that if there is nothing constructive to say, dont say it at all… instead of trying to insult how i conduct any inquiry that i may have</p>
<p>i am done with this site…</p>
<p>no help and a lot of rudeness…</p>
<p>I’m genuinely mystified as to what you expected from this question. Nobody here is going to spend the day digging through philosophy department Web sites to come up with the answers you need. That’s an effort you need to make.</p>
<p>If you read the rest of the thread, you’ll see that the OP didn’t get any answers either - for the same reason.</p>
<p>If you can’t even do a simple Google search, stay away from grad school.</p>
<p>something about this doesn’t really make sense to me. assuming you majored in philosophy to begin with, you would have probably had some exposure to a logic course at the very least. if you made it through something like that why wouldn’t you be able to handle the math on the general gre?</p>