<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I'm applying to a few MS nuclear engineering programs (UMich, Berkeley, A&M, MIT), and I was wondering what you guys thought about my GRE situation. I got a 780Q, 660V, but only a 4.0AW. Should I retake to get the AW up? Or should that be acceptable?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>SS</p>
<p>You are probably okay for most NucE programs - your Q is close enough, your V is pretty strong, but if your AW was ANY lower I would say you definitely need to retake. As it is a 4.0 will probably slide in light of your verbal.</p>
<p>Just to be safe, make sure your SOP is awesome!</p>
<p>It’s fine.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’ll probably contact some people in admissions, but the average AW seems to be between a 4 and a 4.5 for most of these schools, so some people do get 4.0s. Most sites don’t seem to have good stats on it though.</p>
<p>Hey, gthopeful, are you a student at GT? Hoping to finish up this spring myself.</p>
<p>I am indeed. I wouldn’t sweat the writing score. I scored a 650 myself in verbal and a 4 on writing because I haven’t had to write a sample in X amount of time since I took the SAT’s 5 years ago. I don’t think they will hold it against you if you’re able to put together a competent personal statement.</p>
<p>Yeah, I saw that GT’s nuclear graduate AW average was a 4.0, but I wasn’t sure about what would be acceptable for other schools. </p>
<p>What are you studying?</p>
<p>I’m over in the ECE department.</p>
<p>Good stuff.</p>
<p>For most things, the AW doesn’t matter unless you’re <4.0. It’s such a weakly validated scale nobody really relies on it AFAIK. I doubt a program, even an English lit program, would screen you out for a 4.0 AW when your 660V is the 94th percentile! (And your 780Q is around the 90th)</p>
<p>Thanks for the positive notes. </p>
<p>I was pretty surprised with my verbal; I barely broke 600V on the SATs. Studied so much vocab and got lucky that the words I knew were there. Again, thanks. I guess I won’t be taking it again. </p>
<p>[Sigh of relief]</p>