Do grad Schools Post GRE Score for Admitted Students?

starbright
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:43:18 +0000

I believe the value depends upon the grad program and school. Everyone has a different judgment call. I’m in a field where we care pretty much equally about all parts of the GRE. But in our field, it is pretty obvious that all matter.

I can see a quantitatively focused PhD programs putting the main focus on math, but I can’t imagine them simply disregarding verbal or analytical writing. Even academic engineers have to be able to write, and possess reasonable verbal reasoning abilities. I think someone scoring below average on any of the GRE subtests would flag a future problem and there are simply more than enough students out there that can do quite well across the board.

I just found this, which seems to provide evidence that all fields care about all scores, just weighted differently:

http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gre.jpg

I can only speak for my more narrow experience- three schools in my field- but we look only at the subtests, and have never considered the overall score.