Engineering PHD - importance of the GRE?

molliebatmit
Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:46:17 +0000

Well, it’s difficult to designate an exact point. Ideally, you want an 800, because a huge number of your fellow applicants are going to have one. According to US News the average for a lot of the top programs is somewhere around 780.

It’s nice if your undergrad research topic is similar to what you want to pursue in grad school, but it’s absolutely not necessary. Especially if you’re not even actually changing broad fields, it won’t matter.