GRE percentiles?

[hoodle]

Hi everyone! I just took the GRE, and while they give you the scores, they don't immediately tell you the percentiles! I know I'll find out in 10-15 days... but I'm impatient. Does anyone know of chart that gives scores and percentiles? I can't find one online, but I feel like I've seen something similar only recently. Thanks so much! 😀

p.s. competitive is over 70%, generally, right? equal salience for both verbal and math?

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[InfiniVet]

GRE percentiles:
96-99th percentile 720
79-90th percentile 630
61-75th percentile 570
37-50th percentile 500

Although, the verbal is curved slightly higher...meaning a 500 Verbal is not the same as a 500 Quantatative...the verbal scale although still ranging from 200-800, its harder to get a better score in verbal than quantatative.

Most vet schools look for scores of 500-600 in both. Writing, usually 4-5, if they even factor it in.

 

[cyrille104]

Actually, percentiles for math and verbal are VERY different. For example, a perfect score (800) in the math is 94th percentile and a 660 in verbal is 93rd percentile.

 

[cyrille104]

As far as salience for math and verbal, penn told me they care about math much much much more than they care about verbal

 

[hoodle]

Hm, interesting! I think I'm in good shape, which is a nice feeling... I'm surprised that they haven't changed the test to make the scores across math/verbal more comparable. In my case, the scores are the same as far as percentiles go, though they don't look it! It seems like a funny scoring system. But I guess the GRE is changing late this year, right? Maybe the scoring will be more even - but for now, I'm satisfied. 😀

 

[hoodle]

Cyrille, what do you know about the weight placed on the writing sample?

 

[ri23]

Most schools do not place a lot of weight on the writing sample and some, like Penn, state explicitly on their website that they don't even look at your writing score.

 

[LuckyJo]

Some schools look at your total combined score, in addition to the individual scores. Verbal 600, Math 600, Writing 4: Would give you a total of 1733. You can convert your writing into a score by dividing what you got by 6 and multiplying that by 800.

 

[HorseyVet]

Cyrille, what do you know about the weight placed on the writing sample?

The Princeton books said that the GRE writing has been shown to correlate with your undergraduate english classes.....so, essentially they say that's it's sort of stupid that they exist (why not just look at the applicant's english grade).

Like with anything "new" it takes a little while for schools to decide how they evaluate a particular score. I'm sure after several years of it, they'll look at the data and see if how people did on the writing was any determination of how they did in school. If it is representative in some way they may care more in the future, but I think most schools are on the fence about it.

Personally, I'd really wonder about people that can't do well on it, because it's really not asking that much, and you really should be able to do well on it.

 

[wildfocus]

The Princeton books said that the GRE writing has been shown to correlate with your undergraduate english classes.....so, essentially they say that's it's sort of stupid that they exist (why not just look at the applicant's english grade).....Personally, I'd really wonder about people that can't do well on it, because it's really not asking that much, and you really should be able to do well on it.

I totally disagree with you... I have a 3.89 with my undergrad degree in English Literature at a top university - write well and read non-stop - and got only a 4.5 on the written portion (and only 580 in verbal). I thought my essays were great, but clearly, they weren't. I don't think the written or verbal sections correlate with your english abilities at all. It all comes down to whether you can test that way nor not.

I recommend taking one of those prep-courses if you worried. I know someone with lower scores than mine in all categories (another stellar humanties major!) and after her retest scored in the 700's!!

 

[Slugpoo]

Personally, I'd really wonder about people that can't do well on it, because it's really not asking that much, and you really should be able to do well on it

What up with you Horseyvet? You made a similar comment about people who get nervous at interviews. So... you're suggesting that I should "wonder about" myself because I got a 4 on the writing section? The GRE exam is not a natural writing/reading environment and I got really nervous. But hey, I got a 780 on the verbal portion and wrote a 60 page honors history thesis at one of the best lib arts colleges in the country, not to mention a million other analytical papers. I can write pretty friggin well If I do say so myself. So...no, you havent enlightened me, or probably anyone else with your asinine comments.

Do you feel insecure or something? You write about being in vet school all the time, but have never specified which one you go to. Are you even in vet school, or just sitting around wondering whether people who get nervous at interviews or get bad GRE scores are really qualified to be vets?

 

[cyrille104]

What up with you Horseyvet? You made a similar comment about people who get nervous at interviews. So... you're suggesting that I should "wonder about" myself because I got a 4 on the writing section? The GRE exam is not a natural writing/reading environment and I got really nervous. But hey, I got a 780 on the verbal portion and wrote a 60 page honors history thesis at one of the best lib arts colleges in the country, not to mention a million other analytical papers. I can write pretty friggin well If I do say so myself. So...no, you havent enlightened me, or probably anyone else with your asinine comments.

Do you feel insecure or something? You write about being in vet school all the time, but have never specified which one you go to. Are you even in vet school, or just sitting around wondering whether people who get nervous at interviews or get bad GRE scores are really qualified to be vets?

Let's all chill. A 4 isn't a bad score, HorseyVet was referring bad scores. Also, it's pretty annoying to throw around your scores and credentials, especially when you're criticizing someone else for the same thing. Besides the fact that if those things are really true, the 4 is a fluke. Who cares? Vet schools barely, if at all, even look at the writing section.

On the other hand, I agree that HorseyVet was making a bit of a generalization...but then again she doesn't have to worry about adcoms 😛

 

[HorseyVet]

What up with you Horseyvet? You made a similar comment about people who get nervous at interviews. So... you're suggesting that I should "wonder about" myself because I got a 4 on the writing section? The GRE exam is not a natural writing/reading environment and I got really nervous. But hey, I got a 780 on the verbal portion and wrote a 60 page honors history thesis at one of the best lib arts colleges in the country, not to mention a million other analytical papers. I can write pretty friggin well If I do say so myself. So...no, you havent enlightened me, or probably anyone else with your asinine comments.

I could see that potentially one could get a prompt that they had nothing really to say anything about. I was worried about that myself. My prompts weren't the best and I did well. I gave my opinion on the writting section and you can just take it for what it is.

Of course everyone has a bad day etc., so I'm not speaking exactly for everyone that ever took the exam. They are graded by Joe-English major, so it's also possibly to just get a grader on a bad day or one that just read a bunch of better essays than yours. Point being the grading is fundamentally a human operation. IMO, the writing section is still a better judge of the application than the verbal or math. Again, my opinion.

The two prompts are mostly intended to see if you can construct/parse an argument. Yes they want to see a fancy word here and there and decent sentance structure/grammer/spelling...but unless the latter is poor, the former should in part the majority of the score.

I've said this before, but I've known philology majors that couldn't crack a 500 verbal...which is ridiciulous....so it's not like I'm the voice of faith for these standardized exams to begin with.

Do you feel insecure or something? You write about being in vet school all the time, but have never specified which one you go to. Are you even in vet school, or just sitting around wondering whether people who get nervous at interviews or get bad GRE scores are really qualified to be vets?

Do you just sit around and read all my posts so you can shake your fist at them? If you don't like what I say or have some personal problem with me, don't read my posts.

 

[DVM2b]

[Do you feel insecure or something? You write about being in vet school all the time, but have never specified which one you go to. Are you even in vet school, or just sitting around wondering whether people who get nervous at interviews or get bad GRE scores are really qualified to be vets?[/QUOTE]

That is exactly what I was thinking!