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Mathematics Subject GRE scores | 4 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
[new] It all depends (none / 0) (#4)
by Cotati on Wed Jul 19, 2006 at 08:45:28 PM PDT

I took the Math subject GRE twice, because sit-down tests, especially of that type, are a particular weak spot for me. I got something like a 60 the first time, and an 80 the second time. It was good enough to get into the Univ. of Washington in 2004, along with all other parts of my application.

How much weight is assigned to the GRE scores depends on the school. At UC Berkeley, they weight it very highly. I know, because when I sat down to talk to their director of graduate studies, and I asked him what he might want to tell me about the program, the very first thing he said was the importance of GRE scores. They even publish recommended minimum scores on the math department website. He also noted, as one of the above posters did, that foreign students generally score much higher than US students on the GRE.

Now this director was of the belief that all schools highly weight the GRE scores, whether they admit to it or not. I think he's wrong, as my own score shows. (And UW is not all that bad a school, is it?) Different schools really do have different ways of looking at the entire package.



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