Is 1470 a good GRE score?

Graduate School
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<p>This is in the old one
and what would be the SAT equivalent</p>

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<p>Yes, 1470 is a solid, strong and well-above-average GRE score.</p>

<p>You can’t compare GRE and SAT scores. They are two different tests, and the GRE is significantly more difficult - particularly in the verbal section.</p>

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<p>Strange, most people who took the gre told me it was on par or easier than the SAT</p>

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<p>so what types of schools would accept a 1470
this is actually my dad’s score</p>

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<p>Might seem the case on the quant side, but I don’t think it’s “easier” so much as someone with 3-4 years of college is generally going to have more math experience than a high school junior.</p>

<p>As for the verbal side, the 50th percentile score on the “old” scale was around 450, and a 700 was 97th percentile.</p>

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<p>Unanswerable. Graduate schools don’t accept applicants based on nothing more than a GRE score.</p>

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<p>There is info missing…</p>

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<p>GRE scores are considered more of a negative cut off than a positive selection factor. 1470 should be above the cutoff for pretty much all universities, assuming that the verbal/math scores are relatively even. You can’t bomb one and call it a day, no one looks only at the total score, ONLY at the individual scores. As long as you’re >80th percentile, you’re fine.</p>

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<p>^And even that depends on field. An English or history PhD hopeful can get a 500 math and be fine; a mathematics or physics PhD hopeful can probably get around a 550-600 verbal and be okay. But a field like psychology or political science would value high scores on both sections.</p>