any Top 50 depts that doesn't require GRE ?

[ASDen]

Hello,

due to very limited time off-work, there is a good chance that i wouldn't be able to take GRE before deadline (or worse take it and do badly).

so, my question, do you know of any top 50 depts that doesn't require GRE ? i only know

MIT, UIUC, Purdue, Brown

but all these are very competitive, and applying there only is dangerous. so, do you know of any additional top 50 schools ?

Thanks,

[OH YEAH]

Instead of doing this, why don't you take a year to improve your application? You don't want to be stuck at a university below your level just because you didn't have the time to take the GRE.

[kaykaykay]

Actually to my biggest surprise a lot of universities will accept late gre scores.(you just have to put down the date when you will take the test) Why don't you check which is the absolute latest time to take the gre and evaluate whether you have the time to prepare for it?(you may have to call the schools and ask them) I think you can improve a lot just in one or two months. I am not sure about your firld but I would imagine that you really have to do good in math and ok in verbal. And frankly math should be doable for anyone who even remotedly deals with math. oh and there are usually plenty of gre spots in January

Edited October 24, 2010 by kalapocska

[kaykaykay]

oh and there are usually plenty of gre spots in January

[dntw8up]

...do you know of any top 50 depts that doesn't require GRE ? i only know

MIT, UIUC, Purdue, Brown...

Brown requires the general GRE and recommends the subject GRE: http://www.cs.brown.edu/grad/applications/phd/

[was1984]

Why not just sign up to take the GRE sometime next month?

[ASDen]

@OH YEAH: this is not the case with me, and this is the main reason i'm doing this effort to apply this year not the next. due to many reasons by next year I'll mostly be as-is with ~0 changes in profile.

well after landing at ~0 choices, i took the decision and registered for next month to give it a shoot. i'll have to do my best during this month

[ASDen]

well, did it finally and i think it was the right decision.

being a TA for 3 courses, application hassle just eaten my time, took about ~2 weeks of very interrupted study.

Q:790 V:420

generally I'm happy with it.

the V part is a bit below average, but should be above the cutoff point for most depts, which is the whole point of the GRE thing ( the nice thing is that ETS advices depts clearly not to put a GRE cutoff, and use it only for fellowship awarding and alike )