<p>I signed up for the GRE search service on test day, did really well on the GRE, and now that scores have gone out I just got an email from something called "pace university." I don't know much about this school but they don't have any programs I am interested in, and I get the impression that some schools are mass-mailing every single student who signs up for the test.</p>
<p>Does anyone have information re: the GRE search service and the uses to which it is put?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>The principal purpose of the GRE search service is to make it easier for various institutions to mass-mail promotional material. After taking the math subject GRE I got 6 "recruitment" letters from accountancy master's programs...</p>
<p>^ yep. that's it.</p>
<p>ETS charges a small fortune for the 4 hour test, and then proceeds to make money off you a 2nd time by selling your contact information to 3rd parties and 4th tier universities, who mass-email ads about their mediocre graduate programs. That's essentially what the "GRE Search Service" is; it's only a service for organisations you've never heard of that want to send you their spam. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>ok, pretty much what I had assumed. Apparently the average GRE/ SAT score at Pace is around 1100. That's just sad.</p>
<p>So sad that students don't realize that GRE scores is not everything when it comes to grad school.</p>
<p>Remember that the ETS service doesn't based the search only on your GRE scores but also GPA and field of interest and make it available to schools!!!</p>
<p>ETS doesn't know your GPA...</p>
<p>^ I think you can report your general GPA when you take the exam.
I wouldn't say that all the schools that use the ETS list are terrible, some are just trying to bring attention to particular programs. Tufts is a good school that kept sending me a brochure on plant biology.</p>
<p>I have yet to get anything from a school other than pace, and it's nearly 3 days since the scores were mailed. Looks like my crappy GPA is screwing things up yet again. On second thought, I shouldn't be arrogant about Pace, since it looks like my GRE score isn't going to rescue me from third tier schools after all.</p>
<p>over the next number of months (especially in the fall) you'll get email after email from schools with totally unrelated disciplines.</p>
<p>I've gotten a few from good schools, eg Notre Dame or Duke, but always in departments I have no interest in, and they do base it off of the reported GPA and such.</p>
<p>The thing is, I would be perfectly happy to go somewhere like Ohio State. It's not like I'm holding out for harvard over here.</p>
<p>Why don't you just try... apply to the schools you like. one will give you a chance.</p>
<p>Actually some of the schools I got e-mails from were really good. I got an e-mail from MIT! But it was some program I had absolutely no interest in... I was also bombarded every second day by RIT.</p>