This is what I've been told too. I hope it's true. My first pick for a PhD program doesn't even require the GRE. I had to take it for the other three programs I applied to. As a horrible test-taker, I had mediocre scores on the Verbal and AW, and bombed the Quantitative, which is funny (not haha funny, but peculiar funny,) because I have an engineering degree and years of work experience as an engineer, but this doesn't mean I'm good at doing 7th grade arithmetic in the form of multiple choice problems in a timed environment. I think the rest of my application must look pretty good by comparison, as I have 15 years of work experience (I waited a really long time to go back to school,) letters of recommendation from some fairly well-known faculty, and a 4.0 from my master's program. I suppose that if any program considers my dismal GRE scores more important than the rest of my application, I didn't belong there in the first place.
I'm just hoping they don't use automated bot algorithms to read Statements of Purpose too. Anyway, it's over and done with, and I'm happy about that part, and ETS is not getting another $160 out of me.
Golden Monkey got a reaction from tinapickles in AWA: Computers don't know jack about wit