<p>I'm planning on asking a few of my professors for a letter of recommendation sometime within the following month. I have taken classes from both of the professors that I will be talking to. Also, I took the GRE Roughly 2 months ago. I have a quick question, do professors who are writing you an LOR ask for your GRE scores? </p>
<p>The reason I'm asking is becuase I did not do as good as I wanted on the GRE. Although I plan on retaking the exam, I don't want them do judge me in a negative way based off my low score. So if they don't ask, I think I'm better off. What information do you typically need to provide to a professor if they're writing you an LOR?</p>
<p>Usually not. Professors will ask you for a CV, a draft of your personal statement and a list of schools to which you are applying (perhaps with the names of individual professors with which you’re interested in working). Unless your GRE is on your CV, they won’t see it and likely will not ask for it.</p>
<p>Hey thanks for the helpful response. That’s pretty good news. I didn’t know I would need to bring my CV. As of now, my GRE scores are not provided on my CV, nor am I planning on adding them to the document.</p>
<p>LOR professors asked me for a resume/CV only. I was never asked about GRE or personal statements. Your POI at the school you’re applying to might ask you for your GRE scores in case email/phone correspondence occurs before the application deadlines.</p>
<p>I did include my GRE scores in the information I gave my LOR writers. I also gave them a copy of my SOP. I felt they should have as much information about me as I could give them, and I also wanted them to have a sense of the strength of my application. The GRE may not the most important factor in the admissions process, but it was one of the first things I was asked about any time I met with a program director or faculty member when I was trying to figure out what programs I wanted to apply to. I definitely got the impression that it is used as a first screening tool, and I did feel that I was taken more seriously when people found out that 1) I had already taken the GRE and that 2) I had done well.</p>