GRE CS Subject Score Evaluation

[fireant]

I just learned that my gre subject score is: 760 and my percentile rank is 67%.

I don't know whether it's worth sending this score to top 30 schools in CS.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

[sgp3213]

I have found only two schools that had information about their average scores on the Computer Science GRE.

UT Austin 840 (92 percentile) MS, 830 (90 percentile) PhD

Rutgers 752 (63 Percentile) MS [They didn't clarify whether or not this average also included PhD students]

UT Austin is a top 10 school, so no surprises there regarding their very high score averages. Rutgers is roughly top 30, so it looks like your score is on par with what a top 30 school would like to see.

Edit: URLs for this information

Rutgers http://www.cs.rutger...ml#mscadmission

UT Austin http://www-old.cs.ut...ate/admissions/

Edited November 16, 2011 by sgp3213

[OH YEAH]

The "general" wisdom is send 90+. I personally think even an 80+ helps, it's a hard test. 67 is low for the top 20; outside of the top 20 it might be OK.