iamagoodboy2003

Hey! Your score matters depending on the program you're applying to. I'm from computer science, so I don't know much about biology, but it may help if you look at some of the top colleges in that field and check their grad admissions websites. They usually have the average GRE scores or minimum scores required for admission. Hope this helps. I just googled the top schools in your field, and one among the top twenty is Indiana U, Bloomington. They state that for their microbiology graduate program, they recommend the GRE Biology subject test. It's not a compulsion, just recommended. No minimum GRE scores are stated either. They just say admissions will be decided after evaluated academics, GRE, SoP and the LoRs. Minimum TOEFL iBT score for international students is 100, though.

Hi all! I'm a student from India, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology. I'm looking to pursue a Master's degree in Computer Science, hopefully beginning Fall 2013. I took the GRE this month, and here are my scores: 313 (V155, Q158), AWA 4.5. Coming to my acads, here, in my University, we are given marks for each course, and not a GPA or a CGPA. According to that, my aggregate until the end of third year (sixth sem) is 60%. I'm not sure how grad schools convert this to GPA either, so any help here would be appreciated too. I have two more semesters left, and can increase my final aggregate to maybe 61-62 at the most. I don't have any major extra curriculars, apart from participating in a few workshops related to our coursework. In addition, I have a considerable amount of backlogs (a backlog in my country is a course you failed to clear in the first attempt, and had to retake it; each retake is considered a backlog). I have 22 of them. I know it's pathetic. So my questions on the whole are: 1. Should I even apply for MS? 2. Is my profile good enough to apply? 3. If no to the above, what can I do to improve? 4. I've got suggestions from people to apply to the following univs, and that these might be safe for my profile: Univ of New Orleans Univ of Houston, Clear Lake Univ of Texas, Tyler Univ of Texas, Arlington I'll be very grateful if anyone can help me out. Thanks in advance! Regards, Ramesh