<p>So I took my GREs today and found out that I totally bombed the verbal section. (V620, Q 750) Should I retake it again next month? Will my verbal score hurt me a lot if I am planning on applying to top bio phd program (eg stanford, UCLA, Harvard)? And in the (improbable) situation where I end up doing extremely well on the writing section (5 or above), should I not retake the Gres then?
EG what exactly is considered an acceptable score?</p>
<p>A V620 is in the 89th percentile and a Q750 is in the 84th percentile, so, compared to the rest of the GRE population, you did better on the V than the Q. LOL</p>
<p>In my opinion, your scores are fine and I would not take them again.</p>
<p>From MIT's Department of Biology:</p>
<p>SHOULD I APPLY?
All interested students are encouraged to apply. The average undergraduate GPA for admitted students is 3.62, and the average GRE's are:
Verbal (650; 88%),
Quantitative (738; 87%), and
Analytical (735; 90%).</p>
<p>I would not retake that score. GREs are just not important enough relative to other aspects of your application.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about the natural sciences but I know in most engineer/technical programs the verbal section does not have a heavy weight and anything about a 500 is fine.</p>
<p>I forgot to add that the scores from MIT's Department of Biology website are from the old version of the GRE, so just pay attention to the percentiles.</p>
<p>Hi everybody !</p>
<p>I'm applying this autumn to several US and Canadian universities, and here are my stats:</p>
<p>GRE General V-570, Q-660, Analytical - still waiting, but does not expect it to be less than 4.5
GRE Subject test in biochemistry/molecular/cell biology - 90%
GPA - 92% (I don't know how to convert our grading system to American, but over here everything less than 60% is fail (F), and the top is of course 100% which nobody ever achieves)
TOEFL ib - 107
Fluent in French as well (DELF diploma - 92%)
Research experience - very modest: 6 months in a molecular virology lab of University of Belgrade and 3 months of confocal microscopy training (due to the political circumstances in my country after fall of Slobodan Milosevic, I could not get some summer fellowship for abroad)</p>
<p>Finally, here's the list of universities where I will apply:</p>
<p>Harvard - BBS
Stanford
UCLA
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Universite de Montreal</p>
<p>Please bee free to assess my chances of getting admitted to these universities based on your experiences. I'm looking forward to your advices !</p>
<p>Kindest regards from Serbia,</p>
<p>D.</p>