Dux

Harvard says the students they accept average around a 650, if that is any help. Obviously some schools give it more weight, some give it less, and I have the general sense that it's more of a culling tool than anything. A 750 won't get you in anywhere, but a 400 will keep you out of a lot of places.

Yeah that test was really rather different from the past test in the Princeton review book, and the practice test online. A lot more reading comp of incredibly difficult passages. And the IDs? So many authors I spent time reading in undergrad/recramming for this past week that I thought would get some points were simply... absent. The Princeton A List was rather helpful on the ETS practice test, but then the real thing was seriously lacking in a lot of the more major names/works, and also required what felt like more time-consuming close-reading. Lame. Here's a request though: if you are lurking in this thread and think you actually did well, could you tell us? To be honest, seeing that everyone else thought it was pretty rough, too, is a good sign, since this thing is scored according to a curve. I don't want to get my hopes up though, if the only reason for this appearance is that people who thought it was a'okay just aren't posting because they want to be polite to the rest of us!

Thanks for all the above replies! And thanks for the good luck wishes and the good luck dust. Kind of a followup, does anyone have a sense of what schools like to admit their undergrads into doctoral programs, or, on the contrary, which schools prefer NOT to admit their undergrads?

I haven't seen much information about the importance of undergraduate record (ie. where you went to school and how you did). Plenty of the top 20 release information like the average GPA of the incoming candidates, but that doesn't really tell me all that much, like how much higher that average is than the average GPA of applicants. Insight? Does where one went mean a lot?