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V: 167 (97%) Q: 149 (37%) AW: 5 (93%) Took the GRE twice. Yes, it is a hilarious discrepancy and I have no idea how I got in anywhere with that Q score either. Applied to 11 schools, received interviews from 4 well-regarded clinical science PhD programs, offers from all 4. My low Q score was probably a factor that kept me out of the running for some of the more competitive schools I applied to, but who knows if those would even has been as much of a great fit as my current program is. I absolutely don't recommend slacking on the GRE (I should have started studying a lot earlier and studied a lot more considering my minimal math experience in HS and college) but yeah. I include my scores to illustrate the fact that there is no "formula" guaranteeing success in the crazy admissions process.

Well, that'll teach me to do my own research, ha. Thanks. I clearly haven't been looking that closely at all of the finer details yet, just had family members (also in academia) express concern over my chances given my Q score.

Is there merit in re-taking the GRE solely for the purposes of applying for the GRFP? Or are there other ways to demonstrate quantitative competency and compensate for my low Q score? Verbal and Writing are 97th and 93rd %ile, respectively, but as mentioned, my Quant score is laughably low (37th %ile). I'm wondering if that's enough to sink a potential application. Undergrad GPA was 3.76 (graduated magna cum laude). Q: 149 V: 167 AW: 5.0 I'm not as awful at math as my score would suggest, but it doesn't come naturally to me, unlike verbal. So it can take me a little while to wrap my head around a problem and solve it; the time constraints on the GRE really sunk my score. Give me five minutes per problem rather than ~two, and I suspect I'd do a lot better... (if I were to retake, I'd work on this, obviously.) Background: Accepted to a research-heavy/PCSAS-accred. clinical psych PhD program for Fall '15. My research is in affect science (i.e., emotion and emotion regulation, using psychophysiology/neuroimaging/etc. methods) which I have been/am studying in clinical populations at the moment, but the questions needn't be confined to those populations.