Should I retake the GRE for Chem PhD?

haplophytine
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:29:33 +0000

Sorry for bumping an old thread, didn’t want to start a new one

So I finally got all my scores online today:

Verbal: 630, 91 percentile
Quant: 760, 84 percentile
AW: 5.0, 84 percentile

I’m leaning towards not retaking this now, I think it’ll give the impression I’m retaking for the sake of retaking, and will probably rub adcoms the wrong way. That said I would like to improve my quant score, especially since 760 is not representative of my true ability at all. Breaking the 1400 barrier would also be nice. And I’ve heard they use GRE scores for certain fellowships (I know for a fact Purdue does), although I’d like to think it’s based on much more than just some numbers from ETS.