Simple score-sending question

[ZebraFinch]

So I understand we can select four places to send our scores to, can we specify these BEFORE the test date online on our My Gre account?

[Feyza Nur Arslan]

No, you have to select the colleges after you take the exam there, then the places you have selected will appear at your account.

[ZebraFinch]

So I can take a post it note with the university codes and type them down there?

[TakeruK]

So I can take a post it note with the university codes and type them down there?

 

What is actually allowed in the exam center depends on a lot the exam center themselves. Exam centers always choose to be more careful because they don't want to accidentally violate ETS' rules. At my GRE exam center, we were only allowed to bring 2 pencils, the key to our locker and our ID into the exam room. Everything else remained in the locker. 

 

I would imagine that most places will not let you bring in a piece of paper with anything written on it.

 

However, this does not mean you have to memorize the university code! The exam software basically lets you search for your university name (either by full name or just by matching a few characters). Once you select the university, then the available department codes (if necessary) that are associated with that university will also pop up. I believe this works in a very similar way to how you can search for these same codes in your myGRE account online.

 

I do recommend memorizing a few things though:

 

1. Pick which 4 schools to send to ahead of time.

2. Search for these four schools in the myGRE account thingy online to get their university code. At this point, be extra careful to see if any weird stuff pops up! For example, if you intend to apply to University of Washington, you might want to be aware that there is another school called Washington University. Also, sometimes specific institutes within a university might be registered with ETS as a separate entity (one of the programs at one of the schools I applied to had its own separate institution code).

3. Finally, check with your department's website to see if you need things like departmental code or any other instructions (in the above example, it turns out the separate institution code for my program is outdated and in fact I should send my scores to the university institution code).

 

Basically, do a "dry run" through the ETS website online so that you know any pitfalls to watch out for