The Uber-High GREs: 1580, 1590, 1600

molliebatmit
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:30:59 +0000

As far as the subject GRE goes, in biology at least, diminishing returns set in at the 90th percentile. Even the most selective schools won’t care whether you got 90th or 98th percentile.

I agree with UCLAri’s assessment that for the general GRE, 99th percentile = 99th percentile in verbal. I would assume that anything above a 770 or 780 basically equals an 800 in math, though – I mean, even top engineering and hard science PhD programs don’t have average Q scores of 800.