To send or not to send?

Graduate School
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<p>Here's the deal. A couple of months ago I did a GRE test. However, by the time I was taking the test I was not actually seriously considering going to the US for a master or even the UK. Therefore I did not practice at all (except for a half hour read in the train ride just before the test). </p>

<p>Needless to say my score was not super duper awesome. Even so, it could also have been much worse. My scores were:
Verbal 470,
Quantitative 790
Analytical 4.5</p>

<p>A couple of months later things have changed a bit and I'm actually considering several masters, of which some require a GRE, some consider it optional and some don't. At this moment I'm just wondering whether I should send the scores if it's optional. </p>

<p>Specifically it's for an international relations program. I know my verbal is very low but on the other hand I'm no native speaker and do have a high quantitative score and decent analytical score. Should I send the results?</p>

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<p>That verbal score actually isn’t horrible, especially considering that you’re a non-native speaker. I would submit.</p>

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<p>In that case I guess I will send the results. Besides they can distern my English level from my personal letter as well</p>

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<p>Don’t you have to take another test regarding english proficiency is you are not native speaker?</p>

<p>distern is discern fyi (unless it’s a typo)</p>

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<p>For an IR program? Unless you are doing some kind of quantitative analysis for this program or it’s like an international business/finance thing, I wouldn’t submit those scores if it’s optional. A 470 isn’t good and might cast doubt on your English skills. No one much cares about the analytical score, so what it boils down to is your high quantitative score.</p>

<p>So if your program has a quant component to it of some kind I might submit them, but otherwise, I wouldn’t.</p>

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<p>The way I understood it was, if you’re a non-native speaker, they care more about the TOEFL score than the GRE verbal score.</p>

<p>Did you do well on the TOEFL?</p>

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<p>Well, I actually did not take a TOEFL or IELTS since my Bachelor’s language of instruction was English I basically got an exemption. There is a quantitative part to the IR program though. Although I guess that would never have been in doubt anyway because I have an Economics major.</p>