How accurate is this?

[MegMill]

How accurate are these averages? Anyone?

Taken from : http://testprep.about.com/od/thegretest/a/Private_U_GRE_Scores.htm

Average GRE Scores for the Top Private Universities

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):

Verbal: 580

Quantitative: 796

Writing: 5.3

Stanford University:

Verbal: 590

Quantitative: 780

Writing: 4.8

California Institute of Technology (CalTech):

Verbal: 600

Quantitative: 780

Writing: 5.0

Duke University:

Verbal: 600+

Quantitative: 600+

Writing: 4.5

University of Chicago:

Verbal: 580+

Quantitative: 780+

Writing: 4.0+

Northwestern University:

Verbal: 600+

Quantitative: 600+

Writing: 5.0+

Washington University in St. Louis:

Verbal: 617

Quantitative: 601

Writing: 5.0

Johns Hopkins University:

Verbal: 650

Quantitative: 710

Writing: 4.8

Rice University:

Verbal: 610

Quantitative: 750

Writing: 5.0

Emory University:

Verbal: 500-800

Quantitative: 500-800

Writing: 4.0-6.0

University of Notre Dame:

Verbal: 680

Quantitative: 763

Writing: 5.3

Vanderbilt University:

Verbal: 562

Quantitative: 772

Writing: 4.8

[fuzzylogician]

Is this average for history programs, overall admissions or something else?

At least for MIT I can tell you that my program doesn't require the GRE at all, and I didn't know we had a history program..

[MegMill]

Is this average for history programs, overall admissions or something else?

At least for MIT I can tell you that my program doesn't require the GRE at all, and I didn't know we had a history program..

No this is overall averages, not for history only.

[Alyanumbers]

Regardless of how accurate, it's probably not very useful, since it's for all programs. A lot of humanities programs won't look at quanti scores, and I guess a lot of math PhD students get in with below 500 verbal scores...

How accurate are these averages? Anyone?

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Edited December 8, 2010 by Alyanumbers