Growltiger

I took the GRE early Jan and got 740V/750Q -- and was recently informed via their "pay per call" phone service that I got a 4.5 AW score. I was offended. I've since looked online everywhere and the best I can tell, this section is a crapshoot when it comes to scoring. I didn't do all that much practicing compared to how I approached the other two sections, but certainly understood the ideas of how to properly structure an essay to score well on the GRE. Didn't happen. I've also since learned that (at least for vet school) a number of the best schools don't look at this section at all, and others are dropping it as a component of the application. I'm almost at the point of being able to convince myself that it's a mostly erratic attempt by ETS to standardize via an objective approach something that is inherently subjective, and basically doesn't work in practice. Almost. I'm still really annoyed.