<p>Hi, I know there are already lots of these, but I was wondering how my GRE general will be for an M.S. in mathematics program. I did okay on the quantitative 780, but not so hot on the verbal, only a 460. Will this be enough for admissions for schools such as USC, NYU, Columbia, or University of Washington? Thank you!</p>
<p>I will be applying to PhD programs in mathematics and I have been told by several professors that verbal GRE scores don’t matter, as long as they are high enough to suggest that I am fluent in English<a href=“that%20is,%20fluent%20enough%20to%20teach%20recitations”>/u</a>. One professor said that scores below 500 might set off a red flag, but I don’t know if that cutoff was his personal opinion or common practice.</p>
<p>In case you are interested, the math department at the University of Pennsylvania has published some admission statistics. The average verbal score of their admitted students is 598 and the average TOEFL iBT score of their international students 116. These numbers are impressively high, especially considering that half of their graduate students come from foreign universities (i.e. they are most likely nonnative speakers and they had not spent much time in an English-speaking country when they were taking these exams). [Graduate</a> program data](<a href=“http://www.math.upenn.edu/grad/graddata.html]Graduate”>http://www.math.upenn.edu/grad/graddata.html)</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. Although I’m an international student, I’m a native English speaker since I’m from Canaeda. The verbal score was way worse than any practice test I took so it was very disappointing.</p>
<p>Don’t hold Penn as your standard for GRE scores - the Ivies are notorious for extending their liberal arts expectations across all disciplines, so even science majors at Penn are expected to have high V/AW scores. At most schools a 460V for a math applicant would be worrying, but not disqualifying, especially for a masters program.</p>
<p>My friend got into the MS Math Program at NYU with a 790 on her Math. She won’t tell her Verbal score but said that it is in the 400 range. Her GPA was 3.7 from a state school. She had an Engineering degree for her undergrad and a Math Minor.</p>
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Interestingly enough, several math faculty and one administrator at Penn have assured me that they don’t care about verbal GRE scores as long as they are not alarmingly low.</p>