ETS Personal Potential Index- Just CSU?

[Maschka1]

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Hello!

Hopefully everyone is done, or close to it, with their applications for this year. I am just trying to make the finishing touches on my PS and waiting for my very last VMCAS ELOR. ( and praying that money will magically appear in my account to pay for these apps)🙄

Anyway, I just want to make sure that CSU is the only school that requires the ETS Personal Potential Index. Can anyone confirm that? Or are there other schools that require it, as well? Just want to make sure I haven't over-looked something.

 

[wildcatj]

Hello!

Hopefully everyone is done, or close to it, with their applications for this year. I am just trying to make the finishing touches on my PS and waiting for my very last VMCAS ELOR. ( and praying that money will magically appear in my account to pay for these apps)🙄

Anyway, I just want to make sure that CSU is the only school that requires the ETS Personal Potential Index. Can anyone confirm that? Or are there other schools that require it, as well? Just want to make sure I haven't over-looked something.

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I believe Davis is starting to use it this cycle.

 

[PetPony]

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I believe Davis is starting to use it this cycle.

I think I read something about that..

 

[nyanko]

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I believe Davis is starting to use it this cycle.

Indeed.

 

[Spinach Dip]

Yay. Just what we need.

Another test that claims it can tell grad schools everything they want to know about their prospective students.



I am overjoyed.

 

[Fly Racing]

Yay. Just what we need.

Another test that claims it can tell grad schools everything they want to know about their prospective students.



I am overjoyed.

You don't actually take another test. You just pay ETS more money to profile you based on your gre. 👎

 

[kakurubird]

Not really a test or test-based at all and can be done without the GRE...

Evaluators fill out a survey-type thing that then calculates a score in different categories for certain traits (communication skills, perseverance, etc.) and add a few comments and ETS generates averages and totals and compiles all your evaluators into a report for schools. You don't really do anything besides add evaluators and get them to fill out a thing.
(Based on a quick scan of the ETS website--some details may be a tiny bit off.)

And, yes, as far as I know, only CSU and UCDavis are using them.

 

[485501]

Yeah, it's really just a different format of recommendation, so far as I can tell. And, if you've taken the GRE recently (I don't remember how recently - within the year maybe?) you can send a bunch of reports for free. All of my recommenders did it really fast, too, and said it was no hassle.
There's a sample report you can look at on the ETS website.

I think it's a bit simplistic, myself, but there is the option for recommenders to add lengthy notes about you, so hey, maybe it's ok.

 

[orcagirl]

Apparently it asks the same questions as the eLORs on VMCAS. One of my writers wasn't too happy about that, but he wrote amazing recommenations for me anyway.

 

[Spinach Dip]

Not really a test or test-based at all and can be done without the GRE...

Evaluators fill out a survey-type thing that then calculates a score in different categories for certain traits (communication skills, perseverance, etc.) and add a few comments and ETS generates averages and totals and compiles all your evaluators into a report for schools. You don't really do anything besides add evaluators and get them to fill out a thing.
(Based on a quick scan of the ETS website--some details may be a tiny bit off.)

And, yes, as far as I know, only CSU and UCDavis are using them.

Yeah. I looked it over carefully.

Seems to me like they're just asking for eLOR's and some numerical rankings. Then they compile numbers and run everything through a formatting script... And that's somehow supposed to determine who will do well in grad school and who won't?

Sorry. I'm not buying it.

Basically, what we're looking at is a fancy LOR.

 

[Maschka1]

Yeah, it's really just a different format of recommendation, so far as I can tell. And, if you've taken the GRE recently (I don't remember how recently - within the year maybe?) you can send a bunch of reports for free. All of my recommenders did it really fast, too, and said it was no hassle.
There's a sample report you can look at on the ETS website.

I think it's a bit simplistic, myself, but there is the option for recommenders to add lengthy notes about you, so hey, maybe it's ok.

Its simplistic although it also requests 1000 character mini-essays for each section. When they say it takes 15 min to complete, that is certainly an optimistic calculation if your evaluator cares to do a good job on it. I feel really bad asking people to do it, Its nice enough that they are willing to write a letter for VMCAS, this just seems extraneous.