The Uber-High GREs: 1580, 1590, 1600

molliebatmit
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:20:22 +0000

would an adcom view the 1540 as “good”, but the 1600 as signifying possible “genius”?

No. Grad school admissions committee members are emphatically not making admissions decisions based on the minor point difference between superb GRE scores.

Grad school, after all, is quite a bit different from the GRE, and the skill sets required for success on the GRE and success in grad school do not overlap to a terribly great extent. Admissions committee members will be far more interested in your research experience/writing sample/what have you than in whether you got a 1540 total score or a 1600.