GRE for MA/MTS

[alem]

I was hoping some of you would be able to assist me evaluate the importance of the math portion of the GRE test for graduate work in theology. I am planning to pursue graduate studies in early Christianity during the fall of 2012 and I will graduate in my undergraduate program at a top-tier private school, with a 3.8 GPA. So I was wondering how important will my quantitative score be, with regards to acceptance to masters programs’?

[phoskaialetheia]

I was hoping some of you would be able to assist me evaluate the importance of the math portion of the GRE test for graduate work in theology. I am planning to pursue graduate studies in early Christianity during the fall of 2012 and I will graduate in my undergraduate program at a top-tier private school, with a 3.8 GPA. So I was wondering how important will my quantitative score be, with regards to acceptance to masters programs’?

I had the exact same question before applying (in fact I asked it on this board). Apparently not that important for programs at div schools, but I'm not sure about MA programs in religion/religious studies departments. My quant score was terrible, but I got in everywhere I applied (MAR and MTS programs), albeit not with more than 50-75% funding. Of course it's impossible to know how much of that was due to other parts of the application. Languages, good fit, and solid letters cover a multitude of sins, but generally I would say it doesn't matter except in the context of distinguishing between those two hypothetical candidates among whom all other qualifications are equal.

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[Neem217]

I was hoping some of you would be able to assist me evaluate the importance of the math portion of the GRE test for graduate work in theology. I am planning to pursue graduate studies in early Christianity during the fall of 2012 and I will graduate in my undergraduate program at a top-tier private school, with a 3.8 GPA. So I was wondering how important will my quantitative score be, with regards to acceptance to masters programs’?

I would also agree that the quantitative portion of the GRE is not as important as the verbal and analytical for MTS/AM/MAR applications. I scored about the same on both sections, about 650. Specifically, I scored at the 59% for quantitative and about 93% for the verbal (it is more difficult to score higher on the verbal so the same number score will give rank you at higher percentile). I got into most of my programs. I would say though that the math portion is much easier to study for, thus, it is much easier to improve your score on the verbal section. This is coming from someone who has not taken a math course since senior year of high school.

http://www.testmasters.net/gre/information/scoringscale.aspx

The math and verbal portions of the GRE are going to change beginning August 2011 so I really can't speak of how that will affect admissions though I don't much as the test is supposed to "standardized." I would say one con about the change is that there is less study material out there to prep you for the upcoming changes while there are tons of books, flash cards, CD's, etc. out there that are geared towards studying for what will be in August the old GRE.

http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/know