<p>Do you think a GRE subject score would be useful in undergrad freshman admission?</p>
<p>Some students in some countries where the SAT is not available have submitted GRE scores in their admission files, but usually the GRE doesn’t add any information that isn’t already in the file from the SAT or the ACT.</p>
<p>^^The OP is talking about the subject GRE scores, not the general. It’s a much more comprehensive test than the SATII, obviously. I would be impressed by a GRE subject score, but I’m betting no one has ever asked an adcomm how they would consider the GRE.</p>
<p>Oh, yes, that is what the OP was asking about. It would be interesting information for the admission committee, but it might or might not be decisive.</p>
<p>bump char~char~char</p>
<p>I actually wouldn’t be too terribly impressed by a GRE subject score, at least for the GRE subject tests with which I’m familiar (biology and biochemistry/molecular biology). They’re easily aceable by memorization and don’t require much knowledge outside freshman introductory biology. </p>
<p>Perhaps others of the GRE subject tests are more difficult, or require more specialized knowledge.</p>
<p>The chemistry GRE is a pretty reliable indicator of knowledge, particularly organic chemistry. I haven’t taken it, but I think the physics GRE would say a lot as well. Unfortunately, other than Caltech, the adcomms will most likely not have taken them themselves and thus won’t be able to assess what it means.</p>
<p>I plan to take the physics one</p>
<p>bump bump char</p>
<p>I’m sure this will be the new “hot” thing on CC …</p>
<p>Do it if you want, lol if you get a good score you can even use it for grad school (5 year expiration).</p>
<p>The Physics GRE is very broad and very shallow. Most of the things you will learn in Course 8 at MIT are much deeper than the Physics GRE. If you got a very strong and very broad physics education in high school (or on your own), you might do quite well.</p>