Just sat for the GRE...

[johnjohn320]

It was computer based, so I got my Quantitative and Verbal Scores right away, (no essay score yet, obviously). I know I'm looking at the tables on their websites, the means, etc...Anyway...I'm just curious what you guys consider a good score.

 

[Crusty]

Whatever top 99% is?

 

[tfinch2]

Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

 

[IronWing]

I'll have to dig up my scores. Whatever they were, was good enough.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Crusty
Whatever top 99% is?

That would be nice...it doesn't really tell you that, though. I just see the means listed on the website, no percentile references...

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

I don't get why they aren't making it harder..

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

I don't get why they aren't making it harder..

Yeah, the math on the GRE is pretty similar to the SAT.

 

[homercles337]

It depends on the others that took it at the same time. It should give you statistics (quantiles being most useful).

 

[KillerCharlie]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

 

[eLiu]

Here are this year's percentile breakdowns: text

The percentiles are a bit higher than the last results posted on Wiki from a few years back. i.e. I think 700V was in the mid 80s there and 800Q was in the high 80s.

So either people got dumber or the test got harder... but it worked out great for me

Edit: and a "good" score depends on the school you're applying to & your field of study. Schools should report average scores, and so long as you're around there, that's OK. GREs don't get you into grad school, but performing poorly will keep you out.

Edit2: My undergrad advisor says he rarely votes to allow anyone below a 750Q, arguing that then you're going beyond careless mistakes into the land of ineptitude. This is aerospace engineering.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

I was only half-serious when I said that. It was more a statement on the fact that the quantitative portion is relatively easy, and engineers are supposed to be pretty good at math.

That's good that you got into Stanford. I did as well, although they didn't offer me any RA/TA positions, so I had to decline. There was no way I was going to pay $50k/year to get a degree from there when other schools were willing to foot the bill for me.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

Just shows you the low standards of Stanford....

GO BEARS!

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
It was computer based, so I got my Quantitative and Verbal Scores right away, (no essay score yet, obviously). I know I'm looking at the tables on their websites, the means, etc...Anyway...I'm just curious what you guys consider a good score.

Depends as others said. I know for some Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Anesthesia schools a 1000 is minimum

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

Just shows you the low standards of Stanford....

GO BEARS!

I went to berkeley with low/mid 700s. I was told the three publications from undergrad helped.

edit: is the max sill 800? It looks like it might be 1000.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

Just shows you the low standards of Stanford....

GO BEARS!

I went to berkeley with low/mid 700s. I was told the three publications from undergrad helped.

edit: is the max sill 800? It looks like it might be 1000.

I took the test about a month ago and the max was 800.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I took the test about a month ago and the max was 800.

Oh, ok. I looked at that PDF and there was a "scaled score" that seemed to go to 1000. Admittedly i spent about 5 seconds with the document.

 

[Stiganator]

I'd say 1000 for a not good school, 1200 ish for a good school, 1400 for a great school. YMMV

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
It was computer based, so I got my Quantitative and Verbal Scores right away, (no essay score yet, obviously). I know I'm looking at the tables on their websites, the means, etc...Anyway...I'm just curious what you guys consider a good score.

The only people who can really answer are the people on the selection committees in the college's you're applying to.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

Just shows you the low standards of Stanford....

GO BEARS!

I went to berkeley with low/mid 700s. I was told the three publications from undergrad helped.

edit: is the max sill 800? It looks like it might be 1000.

What.. you're a Bear that doesn't enjoy making fun of Stanford. You faker!

 

[DaveSimmons]

When I was applying to grad schools for computer science last century, most of them cared much more about the CS subject GRE than the general GRE. At the time University of Washington here in the Seattle area expected you to be in at least the 90th percentile.

 

[gururu2]

i got 90% in both my verbal and quantitative. with a college gpa of 3.0, I was able to get into 4 UC Chem programs and a UW biochem program.
gpa and gre scores scale so u can do a little worse on your gre if you have a better gpa.

 

[Tiamat]

anything science/math/engineering, you want at least a 790.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Depends on your major. If you plan on going to grad school for any type of math/science, you better have gotten a 700+ on the quantitative section.

Yeah, if you are an engineer, you better get a perfect 800 on the quantitative portion. Actually, so many people score so highly on the quantitative portion, getting a perfect 800 only puts you in the ~87th percentile.

790 was good enough to get me into Stanford.

Just shows you the low standards of Stanford....

GO BEARS!

I went to berkeley with low/mid 700s. I was told the three publications from undergrad helped.

edit: is the max sill 800? It looks like it might be 1000.

What.. you're a Bear that doesn't enjoy making fun of Stanford. You faker!

What do you mean? You dont even spell stanfurd correctly. I doubt you are a berkeley student. :|

 

[johnjbruin]

Only 800 on the math is a good score if you have an engineering background - if you even got 790 - you have failed.

Anything is ok for the verbal.