Gre Score Target Worksheet (Page 3 of 3) in pdf

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Step 1: List Your Schools

The first thing to do is list your programs of interest along the left side of the chart.

Step 2: Find Information

Next, we’ll look up all of the available GRE score information available for your

programs of interest. If this information is available, you can usually find this

somewhere in the web page for prospective program applicants—either right in the

section about test scores or in the FAQ (questions like “What’s the minimum GRE

score for admission?” often provide this information).

We’ll work our way down the list of programs and note down the information we

can find online in the second column. Then in the third and fourth columns we’ll

note what GRE score that information corresponds to. So if a school says “

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minimum for acceptance is 60th percentile in Quantitative and 25th percentile in

Verbal,” we’d write that down in the second column. Then, after looking up what

scores those percentiles correspond to, we’d note down “145+” for Verbal and

“155+” for Quant in the third and fourth columns.

Step 3: Determine Your Goal Score

Once you have all of your information from your programs noted down in your

chart, look to find the highest scores in each column. Then a im for 2 points higher

than that score — this is high enough to put you squarely in the acceptable score

range for that school (even if the number given is a minimum), but not so high that

you’ll be wasting energy trying to get an unnecessarily high score when you could

use that energy on other parts of your application. (Remember, a GRE score is

mostly to get you in the door—a super-high score won’t necessarily be a huge

additional boost to your application).

This is what we consider your Good GRE Score. This is the score YOU need to get

into the schools of your choice. That’s why everyone has a different good GRE score

target!

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