ATTN: Engineering Grad Students

[chuckywang]

I'm off to take my GRE today. How important is your verbal and writing score for getting into a good Graduate School?

 

[Lizardman]

not at all

 

[chuckywang]

anybody else?

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: Lizardman
not at all

not totally. you need scores that don't imply you are a moron or you skipped that portion of the test or they might raise an eyebrow. I rushed through my essay and got 4.5. I tried on the writing portion though. Generally though, they look at your math score most. I would expect that a 200 in writing would concern them if you aren't foreign.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

master's degree .... sucker.

 

[CanOWorms]

I don't think they care too much about the GRE. Engineering students are expected to do poorly on the verbal section.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I don't think they care too much about the GRE. Engineering students are expected to do poorly on the verbal section.

Really?

 

[MrBond]

UMich may have a cutoff for minimum writing score, I don't remember for sure. I went up there and my buddy swears they said they didn't take anyone who's score was below a certain number, but I don't remember what it was. It's fairly high if they do have one though, I want to say 5 or 6. They may make exceptions for American students, however from the sheer number of American students at the information day, I'd be surprised if they had a shortage of them like some universities do.

 

[johnjbruin]

A 790 in math is looked upon as a bad score for graduate school in engineering. Therefore - its 800 or nothing.

Do decently(50th percentile) on the verbal and you should be ok.

 

[Peetoeng]

Most schools need total math & verbal, with a minimum of 1200 typically.

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin
A 790 in math is looked upon as a bad score for graduate school in engineering. Therefore - its 800 or nothing.

Do decently(50th percentile) on the verbal and you should be ok.

That is bullsht. 790 is 1 question wrong on some forms. They don't look at that as a "bad" score. Look at the averages of the top engineering schools. They are upper 700s not 800. Are you trying to tell me that they take a few good scores and then settle with the majority of their students who didn't get 800 in math? For example, top engineering schools, the top 2 that are freely given have an average of 777 and 778. Does that mean that MIT and Stanford got a certain number of 800's and the rest of the people they took bad people to fill up spots?

I could let you get by with saying 600 or even low 700's is a bad score but not 790. That is just absurd.