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- From: hduncan@cs.ucsd.edu (Hal Duncan)
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- Subject: Re: GRE scores
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:48:55 GMT
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- ahmad@ra.cs.umb.edu (Ahmad Hashem) writes:
- <1. Among the accepted applicants to the very top schools (ivy league etc),
- < what is (roughly) the range of GRE scroes?
-
- One figure I've heard quoted fairly often is >700 quantitative -- for
- acceptances, not applications.
-
- <2. Do you think one can check with departments one intends to apply to
- < about the range of scores they usually expect from applicants?
- < Also, what other information do you think such departments might
- < give you (without frowning); e.g., percent of applicants who are offered
- < admission, GPA of accepted applicants, etc..
-
- Ask away; the worst they can do is say they can't or won't answer.
-
- <I just would like to do some evaluation/filtering before I fill applications
- <and pay the required fees (and bother my professors with recommendation
- <letters).
-
- Apply to *lots* of schools. Really. If you're not destitute, you'll be
- able to scrape up the $50 per; if you are destitute, you can get most
- schools to waive the fee. It's not much of a hardship to ask your
- professors to write a few more letters, and it's not a lot of extra work
- to fill out a few more applications yourself. I spent more time writing
- the first version of my statement of purpose than on any term paper I
- ever wrote... but it only took an hour or two to revise it to fit each
- application's different format requirements.
-
- Think carefully, too, about which schools you do (and don't) apply to.
- I almost didn't apply to the school I am currently attending -- "too
- selective, and not as high a rep as those other schools" is what I
- thought. Well, obviously, I changed my mind at the last minute.
- As it turns out, IMO, this is a much better school for my area than the
- other schools I applied to.
-
- Oh, and be sure to apply for every grant and fellowship you qualify
- for, too. Might as well get paid for all your trouble. :-)
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- Hal
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