for those that attend(ed) graduate school....

[skim milk]

I'm going to try my best on the GRE... as well as rest of the classes for my major and letters of rec.
But the experience section may be heavily lacking if they even ask for it.. that is.

 

[DaWhim]

doing a combined degree, so I don't even need to take GRE.

 

[cerebusPu]

i kinda slipped in without GRE and not making the GPA limit because i had tons of research and work experience.

 

[Whisper]

It mostly depends on what major/field you're going into, what kind of degree you want (master's or doctorate), and which school you want to attend.

In my own experience, I did fairly well on the GRE, had a decent (although not spectacular) GPA, and roughly 1.5 years of research experience helping in a psych lab at UGA. I was summarily rejected by 6 or 7 of the 10 clinical psych programs to which I applied, had an interview with 3, and only barely made it into one of those final few. Most suggested that I strengthen my resume by getting a masters so that I could have more research experience.

So yeah, if you're going for a doctorate, research/experience can play a fairly big role, depending. With a masters, less so.

 

[Orsorum]

To get into the masters of tax program at my school, I had:

- tax accounting internship (although quite a few had audit experience or some other non-tax accounting area)
- B+ cumulative GPA (3.44) but a A- major GPA (3.5 something)
- research experience (not in my grad school field, but research)
- held a job throughout college that was nontraditional (Resident Adviser) and that stressed a skill area with which most accounting undergrads had little experience.

Those are the factors that made me stand out, I think.

Your mileage may vary.

 

[engineereeyore]

Good luck with the GRE. I asked one of my professors, who is absolutely brilliant, what his advice would be. He said "Swallow a dictionary and thesaurus." When it comes to the Verbal portion, you either know it, or you don't. I have yet to meet anyone who felt that studying for that portion helped in any way, shape, or form.

As for the math portion, work on timing, ensuring that you don't spend too much time on any one question and end up not finishing the test. Very bad.

I have a 3.7GPA and got a 770 Quantitative, 4.5 Analytical, and 450 Verbal and had no problem getting into Grad school at a pretty nice university. Just to give you an idea. Research/Internship will help to compensate if you get bad scores, but if you do well, it usually doesn't matter too much if you don't have a lot of experience.