<p>I currently have two GRE scores and would like feedback on which is best to send to PhD programs in engineering.</p>
<p>1) 164Q, 155V, 5AW
2) 162Q, 160V, 5Aw</p>
<p>I appreciate any feedback, especially if it has some solid basis.</p>
<p>The first one.</p>
<p>1st logic: Its much harder to get a high verbal score than a math score. Second one wins. </p>
<p>Another logic:</p>
<p>1) 164+155= 319
- 162+160= 322</p>
<p>Second one wins again.</p>
<p>Engineering is a quantitative endeavor. Go with #1.</p>
<p>You’re above average for engineers with either verbal score–> <a href=“https://benchprep.com/blog/what-is-a-good-gre-score/[/url]”>https://benchprep.com/blog/what-is-a-good-gre-score/</a></p>
<p>I would go with the highest quant score.</p>
<p>@XtremePower
Engineering schools don’t care a wink about your verbal score as long as you can write a semi-coherent sentence, which is pretty well shown by the OP’s AW scores. They do care about your quantitative reasoning skills, so the first is better.</p>
<p>That said, I have a hard time thinking on the 170 point scale, so converting the Q scores on the two to the old 800 scale, you would have 710 and 680 respectively, both of which are fairly low for an engineering applicant. Most are going to be hitting in the 168-170 (770-800) range.</p>
<p>I appreciate the help. That conversion is not accurate though.</p>
<p>164Q = 790Q
162Q = ~770Q</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/concordance_information.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/concordance_information.pdf</a></p>
<p>Again, still go with the first one. I didn’t see that they had a conversion scale on ETS’ site so I was just going off of proportionality of the scales rather than percentiles.</p>
<p>The GRE rescaling was done specifically to get away from the highly compressed scale in the quantitative scores of the old scale. The 760-800 range has been stretched to give a better measure. There were way too many 800s in the past and I have not seen any 170 scores in quantitative since the change.</p>
<p>^^Xray, as a college rep of an engineering college, what GRE scores do y’all look for in grad school applicants?</p>
<p>Son is a rising senior in engineering, will hopefully be applying for grad school, and we have no idea what is considered a “good” score. He’s hoping to only take the GRE once, but wants to know what an insufficient score would be to judge whether he should retake the test if his first score is not good enough.</p>
<p>It’s not a cheap test, runs $150, so not one I’m willing to pay for multiple times if he’s got a good enough score first time around.</p>
<p>@Montegut, we look for a high quantitative score as mentioned in the posts above. The verbal score is less important but personally, I like to see that above 60%ile if possible the quantitative should be in the upper 80’s.</p>
<p>There are good test preparation books which might be of value. My own son used it to good effect.</p>
<p>Is it possible to report both sets of scores and hope that graduate schools will “super score” them giving you a 164 Q and a 160 V? I know many UG schools do that with multiple SAT scores.</p>
<p>What scores would be considered the 80th to 90th percentile?</p>
<p>I’m hoping son got at least in the 80 to 90 percentile. I’d like him to go over the 90th percentile, but going to leave it up to him whether he shoots for that high or not.</p>