<p>The subject test was what did me in. 
Luckily, I was switching fields in grad school and the admissions committee 1. realized I was a foreign student; 2. valued what I knew in my new field; 3. valued recs. My GPA was not great, owing to language barriers (“I sympathize, but we can’t give the economics test in French”) and cultural unfamiliarity (“what the heck are stocks and bonds?” ).
With so many more international students applying to grad school nowadays, reliance on GREs is even more on a case-by-case basis.</p>