icelandicsamurai

Haven't heard anything either. I also haven't heard from UCSB, UT Austin, or Georgia Tech (MSc). Kinda salty right now as all I have are rejections from the same schools

Sorry, should have been more specific, I was asking about EE (AFAIK their departments are seperate)

So it looks like a few schools including UCLA and UC Berkeley have started sending out admits. Has anyone heard from Illinois? They were one of the earlier ones last year as far as I can tell.

I can't find a specific source but that seems to be the gist of what I've read a few places and what I've heard in person from friends. In fact, Georgia Tech ECE posts their average GRE scores and their average AW score is 3.8, while their absolute minimum is 3.5, which seems to sort of hint towards this. I've though about this again though and if the GREs are in fact more of a filtering cutoff then a pure indicator, then it really shouldn't make a difference which score I pick. @Drstruct, if you need to pick one of the two, I would go with the second score. 166 is a really impressive verbal score - like top 10 humanities program score. If you are ESL too it's even more impressive, and I think an adcomm would make note of that. On the other hand I dont think the difference between the AW scores isn't really that significant (on my second time I scored 0.5 higher even though one of my essay conclusions was literally 2 sentences long)

Thanks for the feedback guys. The one thing is though, does the AW score matter at all? I've read that it isn't even really considered from quite a few sources. If you disregard that, then the average of the two percentiles was higher on the first try. At this point I'm thinking I might just report both hahaha

Hi everyone, I'm planning on applying to several electrical engineering PhD programs for Sept. admission. I took the GRE twice and obtained fairly similar results: 163V (92%), 163Q (86%), 4.5AW (80%) on my first try, and 161V (87%), 164Q (88%), 5AW (93%) on my second. I'm really not sure which scores to use as while I know that quant is more important for EE, my combined score was higher on the first sitting. If anyone has input I would really appreciate it!