Additional materials

[psychadelics]

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Some schools have the option of uploading additional materials. An example:

Please add any additional information that was not captured within your application you wish to be considered for your admission decision. For example: Do you believe that your academic record accurately reflects your achievement and potential in the program you wish to enter? Are there any circumstances which may prevent you from completing your academic work?

Obviously, this is not the time to mention circumstances that prevent me from completing, but would this be the time address my 3.3 GPA or 540 Verbal score. Are the scores that average, that it would be a detriment to bring attention to it. Please hurry due dates are here!

Scope of qualifications:
540 V 610 Q 4.5 analytic.

GPA 3.3, Major 3.85

NSF funded independent research through competitive program

Internship with schizophrenics

Pretty good SOP

Great Recs

 

[cheeze]

If anything, your quantitative score is a little low, relative to average. Your verbal and analytical scores look OK. So I might think you'd want to focus on your overall GPA and quantitative score. But you might want to compare your scores to the applicant demographics to see where you stand.

Whether you should address those should depend on your schools. In some cases, if your scores are not far below average, addressing them can make you look insecure. If you don't have a strong enough argument to back up your claim then you might just end up bringing the admissions committee's attention to your weaker spots.

But if you were to address your scores, you should discuss why you think that they are not a good representation of your abilities, e.g. hospitalizations, change of major etc. and you would have to claim what, you think is a better measure of your potential (e.g. publications/writing samples/writing class grades to back up your analytic score, or that you have received good math scores in your college math classes to back up your Q score). If you can, turn your weaknesses to your strengths.

If you can't make a strong enough argument, it really might not be worth it to mention them.

Depending on the schools you are applying to, you can put also insert those in the personal history statement/statement of purpose (i.e. where it would be more likely to be read)