GRE Lit score importance - Loyola Chicago PhD English

[dianak91]

For those of you who got accepted to the Loyola Chicago PhD English program, are you willing to share your GRE Lit Subject score? Worried that my score alone will knock me out of the running.

 

Thanks in advance!

[purpleperson]

I don't have an answer for you.  Just chiming in to say that I'm applying to Loyola Chicago as well, and I have an extremely low Subject Test GRE.  

 

To brighten both of our outlooks, I have heard that some schools only require it as a form of a "barometer" -- as in, it's just seeing what you seem to know, according to a test.  At the school where I did my B.A. and M.A., I remember some of the professors who were on grad admissions say things like "We just want you to take it.  It's just a formality.  We don't care what the score is so much."

 

Hopefully it's just a "formality" for a lot of schools.  Perhaps many of these schools that are Subject Test hold-outs just have one or two people in the department who really like the Subject Test GRE, but most of the department doesn't care about them, yet they keep it as a requirement because of the one or two people who insist on having it.  Who knows!  

Edited November 18, 2013 by purpleperson