<p>lawlz i can’t believe someone used the GRE verbal 740 being in the 99th percentile as an argument lawlawlz. obviously he wasn’t in the 99th percentile for the math section</p>
<p>You’re right, I wasn’t. I did horribly on the math section, mainly because as a writer and journalist, I haven’t seen a quadratic equation or geometry problem since high school. They’re not skills I use, so honestly I don’t care about them.</p>
<p>But my verbal score was 800. So, yeah, no need to bother with a retake. None of the grad programs I’m applying to care about the Q score.</p>
<p>“lawlz” indeed.</p>
<p>The bottom line is: yes, international relations is not perceived as difficult. Nuclear physics is much more intimidating and it requires much greater an intellectual challenge. Anyone who argues otherwise is delusional and/or has a low Q score on the GRE.</p>
<p>However: if this “lack of prestige” bothers you, you need to stop living your life through other people’s eyes. Its your life, after all. Do what you want!</p>
<p>I’m confused. I studied psychology in undergrad. My course of study was easier than my friends in, say, engineering. That doesn’t mean I wish I had studied engineering or that engineers would be better psychologists. But I definitely believe that the average person with a BS in engineering would have an easier time getting a BS in psychology than the other way around. The qualitative information is certainly easier for a “math-y” person to learn than the math is for a “non-math-y” person to learn (those are technical terms, by the way). </p>
<p>But like I said, that doesn’t mean engineers or physicists or whoever are better/smarter by default at everything “below” them. I know much more about psychology than almost everyone with a degree in engineering. It just seems pretty foolish to say that it is equally easy for people in each field of study to learn every other field’s skills. When people try to draw up academic hierarchies or whatever, I think that’s the intuition behind their reasoning, even if they dress it up in some other way (intelligence or something else). I guess I don’t really see why I should take offense at that, since it seems pretty obviously true.</p>