Subject GRE Advice

[Chika6892]

Hey guys,

     I am a Biology and Psychology student in Canada and I am applying to Biology Masters programs. My area of interest is Animal Behaviour, which in most schools falls under Biology, but in my school it's taught by the Psychology department. Thus, i've only taken 6 bio courses. I took the Bio GRE in hopes to show I still had a good understanding of bio, but I ended up getting in the 52 percentile. I already arranged to have the score sent to four schools, and I was wondering how badly this may hurt my changes.

 

Extra Info

GPA: 3.13

Bio GPA: 2.8

Psych GPA: 3.3

 

General GRE

-Verbal: 158/78%

-Quant: 157/69%

-Analytical: 4.5/78%

 

Research Experience

-Animal Behaviour Lab course: ran a research experiment in a group of 3 over one semester

-Currently completing an undergraduate thesis

 

School's I think I'm applying to

-Virginia Tech

-Texas Tech

-U Wyoming

-Illinois State

-Auburn U

-College of William and Mary

-McGill University

-U Southern Mississippi 

 

Thanks for your help!!

[aldoushuxley]

Are you applying to a M.S. program or PhD? Your regular GRE results are solid. For your Bio subject test, what was the breakdown by area? Were your Evolutionary/ecology scores higher than the others? 

[Chika6892]

I'm applying for M.S. programs.

 

This was the breakdown

 

Cellular/Molecular: 72nd

Organismal: 40th 

Ecology & Evolution: 42th 

[elanorci]

I've only taken 6 or 7 actual biology courses, and I'm a Molecular and Cellular Biology concentrator (most of my degree reqs were math/physics/chem). I wouldn't worry about that too much. 

 

Not sure about the subject GRE. Just wanted to chime in with this. 

Edited December 4, 2013 by elanorci