Automatic Culling via GRE Scores

[1Q84]

As I understand it, your application goes to the graduate division of any school and then is sent to the specific department to which you are applying.

 

I have a really crappy Q score and I was just told by one POI that the graduate division may not look kindly on that, even though my V score is 99th percentile and I'm applying to the English department.

 

I looked on the school's graduate division website and saw no information to that end. Is it kosher to email them and ask about that?

[grad_wannabe]

I'm in precisely the same boat as you. Great verbal, great AWA, dismal quant. 

 

I went and spoke with someone in the admissions office. She told me that departmental faculty read every single application, and there is no graduate division culling.

 

Call your schools!

[boston_hopeful]

@IQ84 How bad of a Q score are we talking here? I sat for the GRE at the end of October and received 170V/158Q/5.5AWA. I'm seriously stressing the quant score - only 71%, whereas I was prepping in at least the low 160s. I'm going for top public policy programs/MBA programs, fyi.