Retake GRE Scores?

[Phil519]

I scored a 165V and 159Q on the GRE recently. Is it worth retaking these? I am looking at schools ranked in the 20s and 30s in Gourmet. The other parts of my application are good. I am just worried about the quant score and I think I could do a bit better on verbal as well.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Phil519

[gatewayselect]

Based on this: http://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/concordance_information.pdf, no. And besides, if you could only raise one of your scores, verbal would be the one.

[sacklunch]

Hell no. Your scores are great. Spend the time on other things. 

[Monochrome Spring]

I agree not to retake the GRE unless you know from a reliable source that your sources of funding are based off of your qualitative scores being in a certain percentile. Your verbal at 95% is great, but if you know that you need around 85% in quant for a competitive fellowship (this would be a very specific situation), then maybe retake it. But still probably not.

[philstudent1991]

No those scores are pretty good, unless your writing was like a 2 then don't retake

[Phil519]

Thanks for the advice everyone. Given how ridiculously competative the graduate process is, I am trying to minimize every potential weakness I can for my application. I would hate for the rest of my application to not be taken as seriously because my GRE's failed to make some kind of unofficial cut off.

[philstudent1991]

I'm inclined to think that your GRE score will survive the initial cut, if there is one, just about anywhere. Of course there is no guarantee of anything in this process, and while the correlation between high GREs and acceptances is undoubtedly positive, I think the correlation is an even bigger deal between writing sample and acceptance and, unfortunately for everybody, between prestige of undergrad institution and acceptance.