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[LetItSnow]

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I happened to see this on my school's website for potential applicants. How the heck would you interpret it? Are they expecting people to do the new GRE from this year or ..... I don't understand the 2005 date. (I know it doesn't apply to me and I've no reason to care ... I'm just curious.)

"C. Graduate Record Exam - The new version of the Graduate Record Examination (given after October 1, 2005 ) is required of all applicants to the veterinary program."

 

[Bismarck]

From the top of my head,I think the last time the GRE was revised they nixxed a "logic" section from the test and replaced it with the holy triumvirate of verbal/quantitative/writing. Now that the test is again being revised, expect to see schools moving to clarify which version/scores they want to use to evaluate applicants.

My $.02

 

[kermit123]

I happened to see this on my school's website for potential applicants. How the heck would you interpret it? Are they expecting people to do the new GRE from this year or ..... I don't understand the 2005 date. (I know it doesn't apply to me and I've no reason to care ... I'm just curious.)

"C. Graduate Record Exam - The new version of the Graduate Record Examination (given after October 1, 2005 ) is required of all applicants to the veterinary program."

http://www.aavmc.org/data/files/vmcas/test chart_2012_final_1.pdf

If the last date listed to take the GRE for any school is prior to August 1, 2011, that means they need to take the current GRE test. Only schools that need the scores after mid-November (as none of the revised test scores are available until then) and allow you to take the test on or after August 1 (when the revised test takes over) could possibly be using the new GRE.

That said, Iowa appears to be the only school that is REQUIRING the new GRE.

 

[hedgiehog]

Iowa doesn't require the new gre for this application cycle. They state on the admissions section of their website that they will accept either the current or revised gre but the test needs to be taken by October 31. For the next cycle they will require the revised gre however.

 

[kermit123]

Iowa doesn't require the new gre for this application cycle. They state on the admissions section of their website that they will accept either the current or revised gre but the test needs to be taken by October 31. For the next cycle they will require the revised gre however.

Ah well, there you go. Use the chart as a reference, but check the website of the school just in case.

I think then that all schools will take the current GRE this cycle, and I guess next year will be when a handful or more of schools will require people to take the new test in order to apply.

 

[LetItSnow]

Ah well, there you go. Use the chart as a reference, but check the website of the school just in case.

I think then that all schools will take the current GRE this cycle, and I guess next year will be when a handful or more of schools will require people to take the new test in order to apply.

Interesting. Thx, Kermit. It sounds like UMN ought to clean up the language on their website a bit .... unless I'm the only one who finds "new" and "October 1, 2005" to be confusing.

 

[twelvetigers]

Oct. was the most recent 'new' GRE because that's the last time it changed. They just need to update the site now.

 

[light10]

I happened to see this on my school's website for potential applicants. How the heck would you interpret it? Are they expecting people to do the new GRE from this year or ..... I don't understand the 2005 date. (I know it doesn't apply to me and I've no reason to care ... I'm just curious.)

"C. Graduate Record Exam - The new version of the Graduate Record Examination (given after October 1, 2005 ) is required of all applicants to the veterinary program."

Like others have said, they last revised the test in Oct 2005. I was applying to grad schools at the time and rushed to take it before the 'new' version came out. Which meant that when I changed my career plan and went to apply to vet school last cycle, my perfectly good scores from Sep 2005 were two weeks too old . At the time they made a big deal about the 'new' GRE, but I'm really not sure what they changed - it seemed nearly identical in Sep 2005 and Aug 2010 (including quantitative, verbal and analytica writing sections).

 

[kermit123]

Like others have said, they last revised the test in Oct 2005. I was applying to grad schools at the time and rushed to take it before the 'new' version came out. Which meant that when I changed my career plan and went to apply to vet school last cycle, my perfectly good scores from Sep 2005 were two weeks too old . At the time they made a big deal about the 'new' GRE, but I'm really not sure what they changed - it seemed nearly identical in Sep 2005 and Aug 2010 (including quantitative, verbal and analytica writing sections).

Anndddd those sections are still there on the revised GRE starting in August … trying to get more money out of people? … maybe. Seems to me like way in which you answer questions in the computer (onscreen calculator, able to skip around in questions) and the scoring system is mostly what's being changed ...