RSADancinQueen Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Hey guys - like a lot of posters, I just need some advice on my scores. I'm applying to clinical Ph.D. psychology programs. My verbal was a 154 My quant was 156 My writing score was a 5.0 I'm a strong writer, but for some reason my verbal section (obviously) didn't show that. I'm going to retake and dropped a bunch of money on a turor - but can anyone also think of an "ideal" score that I might need to get? Like if you got into a clinical program, what score did you end up with? Thanks so much!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Instigate Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 A friend of mine applied for a clinical psychology 2 years ago. She got rejected from lots of schools because her verbal was too low (730 on the old scale). Also she is not a native speaker. She is doing a phd now so you can get somewhere with scores like that but definitely not anywhere top. You would need 167+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmm Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 167 is about 97th percentile -- I don't think your verbal score needs to be that high to get into any program anywhere. schlesinger1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Instigate Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Yeah you do, at top schools. Well maybe you can with less but it would be a bad signal nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quant_Liz_Lemon Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 (edited) Clinical is pretty competitive. However, one of the requirements for APA endorsement (or whatever it's called) is for schools to post the GPA and GRE of admitted students. For example at Vanderbilt clinical admitted students: Undergraduate GPA for years 2003-2011. 3.57 3.47 3.74 3.37 3.71 3.73 3.68 3.78 3.93 GRE Verbal 652 632 670 624 656 706 635 689 655 Quantitative 695 752 718 721 740 738 700 745 688 Total GRE 1347 1384 1388 1345 1396 1444 1335 1434 1343 source: http://www.vanderbil...ms/clinical.php Those average out to gpa:3.664444 grev:657.6667 greq:721.8889 gresum:1379.556 Edited October 2, 2012 by Quant_Liz_Lemon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmm Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) That's more the range I expected . . . Here's another set: http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/graduate/training/clinical#stats Edited October 3, 2012 by emmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberrant Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Clinical is pretty competitive. However, one of the requirements for APA endorsement (or whatever it's called) is for schools to post the GPA and GRE of admitted students. For example at Vanderbilt clinical admitted students: Undergraduate GPA for years 2003-2011. 3.57 3.47 3.74 3.37 3.71 3.73 3.68 3.78 3.93 GRE Verbal 652 632 670 624 656 706 635 689 655 Quantitative 695 752 718 721 740 738 700 745 688 Total GRE 1347 1384 1388 1345 1396 1444 1335 1434 1343 source: http://www.vanderbil...ms/clinical.php Those average out to gpa:3.664444 grev:657.6667 greq:721.8889 gresum:1379.556 No disrespect, but those numbers are not so meaningful unless the percentiles are given. Remember, different version of exams (especially the old ones), the scale shifts quite significantly. Hence, in grad school application, % of ones GRE performance is always require, even without the actual score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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