gre scores VS percentiles.

mariana
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:52:39 +0000

I applied this year to PhD programs in PoliSci. The programs I researched deeply are Duke, Chicago, WashU and well, UCSD. I was accepted only in WashU with a 750 score (80%)in math. As you might know political science research relies heavily in statistics and calculus. It’s becoming more similar to economics every day. I guess the schools you are interested in are a little bit less competititve, but I think you should rise your scores a lot. I don’t know if you have a shot, you should ask some profs in UCSD (it’s one of the top political science departments, after all) or some profs at the schools you want to apply to.
Shyboy is right, it is easy to rise your scores in the GRE. Just learn the tricks. The Princeton Review book was extremely helful for me in that regard. Good luck!