Basically, I'm going to start a research position in bioinformatics/computational physics in the Fall and from there, I will see how I progress in the year that I'm there. My question, really, is if I do end up applying (most likely will) will the difference between a 780 and 800 be a deciding factor?
In other words- when a department has an average of 785 Quantitative, is it because the people who admitted happened to have that score, or was the score a big deciding factor for the student?
I still have 3 years to retake this exam, I'd just rather be done with it and I don't know if the cost of retaking it for an 800 (Which I'd been scoring around in practice tests) be worth it...especially ince 780 is considered average/borderline
I was reading some posts in other places that said that in economics, anything less than 800 was a reject- I'm just worried that this may be the same thing with CS, even though research is much more important.
By the way, Welcome to Georgia Tech! That's where I go