[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Congrats! Has your app status changed on the website? Also, how close to the deadline did you submit your app to Upenn?

My app status has not changed and I submitted right before the deadline.

[2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Got an interview offer from UPenn Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Super happy!

[Fall 2013 Chemistry and Biochemistry]

I was told to not send in my scores unless I got above 80% for the schools that "strongly recommend" you submit. I got 61% on mine so I did not send scores to the programs that didn't require it. Just my $.02

[How competitive am I for Chemistry Grad School?]

I don't know if they still do that or not but at least it was like that back in 2003. I saw it on her CV and it was not a terminal MS.

Well often people list the Masters on the C.V. even if they were not in a terminal masters program. When you are in a Ph. D. program you get a masters along the way, so just because it is on her CV, that is not a guarantee that she went through a terminal masters program there.

And to OPs original question, I agree with Chai_latte. While you can get away with a verbal score of ~500-550, you would really like your quant score to be 700+.