GRE Advice

[JJ6102]

How important are the GRE scores? I recently took them in June, and I did not do so well. However, I have a high GPA and research experience. I am also running my own study this year. I just do not think I can afford to take them again and pay for my applications on top of it.

[emmm]

I have heard that some places will not look at applications where GRE scores are below 80th percentile. Any program may have its own cutoffs. There is no way to tell....

[Willows]

It depends on where you apply and what your program is, I think.

[bigant]

I think the scores have to be average at the very least, because you can then make up in other areas. With a low score, the job becomes that much more difficult, unless you can prove genius levels of achievement that over-rides everything else.

[iowaguy]

Some programs have cutoffs, under that percentile your application goes in the trash. 80th percentile cutoff is common at higher-level schools, from what I'm told by a professor buddy of mine...