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anyone else get rejected? just got a letter in the mail stating the only reason i wasnt competitive was because my GRE's weren't high enough. idiots. what a great reason to reject a candidate.
950...520(q) 430(v) 4.0(a)what were your gre scores?
wow those are good grades. kinda surprised to hear that actually. i dont feel bad at all. theyre one of the more competitive schools and they seem to pay more attention to numbers than people in the admissions process. i never wanted to go there anyway i just get annoyed when i hear a program says im not good enough for them!Don't feel bad I was rejected from a small town school in mo with a GPA of 3.77 and a science GPA of 3.64 for the same reason. I'm waitlisted on my first choice school but have a pretty good shot at it. Like I said, I hate timed test! Some of the people on this site are getting accepted with GPA's lower than mine so I have to think it's the GRE.
950...520(q) 430(v) 4.0(a)
no. to simply rule out an entire application because the verbal section of the GRE is low is just flat out stupid. it means their admissions director is either lazy and doesnt feel like looking at every application or they really just care about numbers. i never wanted to go there from the beginning but i thought i would apply anyway bc its right down the street from my houseAccording to PTCAs their minimum verbal GRE requirement is 450 and composite is 1050. Did you contact them before you applied to see if they would accept your application before you submitted to see if they would still review it? Some schools throw out any application that doesn't meet their minimum requirements without even looking at it unless you get prior approval.
no. to simply rule out an entire application because the verbal section of the GRE is low is just flat out stupid. it means their admissions director is either lazy and doesnt feel like looking at every application or they really just care about numbers. i never wanted to go there from the beginning but i thought i would apply anyway bc its right down the street from my house
no. to simply rule out an entire application because the verbal section of the GRE is low is just flat out stupid. it means their admissions director is either lazy and doesnt feel like looking at every application or they really just care about numbers. i never wanted to go there from the beginning but i thought i would apply anyway bc its right down the street from my house
i'm sure there are an equal number of documents out there supporting the side that standardized tests are not great indicators of academic performance.Yeah, the GRE doesn't have any type of predictive value regarding a student's performance in PT school:
http://physicaltherapyjournal.org/cgi/reprint/87/9/1164
Oh wait, maybe it does...
i'm sure there are an equal number of documents out there supporting the side that standardized tests are not great indicators of academic performance.
sorry...hear you go...it was the first hit i found on google when i searched "GRE predictive validity." its not a journal article but it lists statistics indicating the GRE's poor predictive validity. http://www.fairtest.org/examining-gre-myths-misuses-and-alternativesSorry to say this and I'm not trying to be mean at all... But to state this this and not support it without a scholarly journal article is, one could say, lazy. How can you be sure without researching this and supporting it with documentation like jesspt? Just saying...be careful what you call lazy and stupid, because things have a way of coming back and biting you in the butt. A mere flippant statement in response to another's that is backed by a journal article won't fly in graduate school... If you find articles in a scholarly journal that state the GRE's are not a good indicator of how a student will perform in graduate school, please share them. I'm sure some of us would like to read them!
i agree. i was wrong to do that and i apologize.Read the PT journal article. For one thing, it analyzes that predictive ability of the GRE in reference to a student's performance in Physical Therapy school, rather than just looking at graduate school in general. PT school isn't really graduate school. It's a professional program and isn't set up like a Master's program in Biology/Chemistry/Physics, etc. So, I'm not sure that the resutls of the web page you referenced are specific to PT school. If fact, I would bet that they are not.
I get that you are frustrated that a school turned you down because of your GRE score. You're not alone in that frustration. But, making comments that belittle a school with a good reputation is hardly the right vehicle to use to vent that frustration. Rather, in my opinion, it makes you sound unprofessional.