<p>I did my GRE today. Got 800 verbal and 460 quant. Don't ask me how I got to be that bad at maths.... it's taken 27 years of hard work.</p>
<p>Anyway, is that very poor quant score going to cripple my application to Art History PhD courses (at top schools... Columbia, Chicago, Princeton)? </p>
<p>Any thoughts much appreciated.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
<p>What did you get on the AW section? Your verbal section is great, but you may need to bring the math to at least above 550. Get a GRE Math workbook and review your math skills. If you strongly feel your total score is fine, good luck. The Art History programs will focus more on your Verbal and AW scores.</p>
<p>Before anything, congrats on your verbal score. If you plan to re-take the GRE, as suggested above, get a math workbook. It is far easier to raise GRE math scores than GRE verbal scores. Furthermore, it is far easier to raise from a 460 to a ~650 GRE math score than from a 650 to an 800.</p>
<p>Thank you both for your encouraging replies. Unfortunately I don't really have time to retake - and certainly not to prepare sufficiently to make it worthwhile. So it's 460 or nothing.... well, here's hoping.</p>
<p>Tom W, if you received a score of 5.0 or higher on the AW section, I would just apply anyways to the PhD programs.</p>
<p>That is amazing, I have never heard of anyone getting 800 on Verbal. I think it would be impressive enough, but I am no expert on art history.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>No news yet on the AW score. I imagine it will be OK.
Thanks again for the replies.</p>
<p>If you're applying to Art History PhD schools, I really don't think the quantitative score matters. A liberal/humanities program like that usually doesn't even give a hoot about your quantitative section, so apply anyway. And I'm sure you did great on your essays, since you did so well on the verbal. Apply to wherever because it looks like you're a shoe in (shoo in? shoe in? whatever, you know what i mean)</p>
<p>I agree with I-set. I can't really see any evidence that this would matter in an Art-History program (but I could be wrong). It's going to be some time before Art-History becomes quantified.</p>