Please Help!!! Took GRE twice, which scores should I send?

[arosey27]

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My pre-PT advisor was not much help with this question, so I thought someone on here could help and give me some direction. I took the GRE in June and scored a 159 Verbal (83rd percentile), 151 Quantitative (41st percentile), and 5.0 AW (92nd percentile). I was disappointed in my Quantitative score and being in the 41st percentile because my top school I would like to get into (UIC) has an average score of 155 for Quantitative (59th percentile). I retook the test a few weeks ago and brought my Quantitative score up to a 154 (53rd percentile), but my Verbal and AW scores both went down to a 155 and a 4.0. I'm not sure which scores I should send to schools, if I should send both to show the improvement in the Quantitative section? Or is sending both a bad idea since the other two sections went down? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!! I'm really lost on this and have no idea what would be best.

(For reference, UIC's averages/percentiles for their previously accepted class for Verbal and AW are 154 Verbal (61st percentile) and 4.0 (69th percentile).

 

[ya1]

Here is just an opinion:
159 Verbal (83rd percentile), 151 Quantitative (41st percentile), and 5.0 AW (92nd percentile) look better to me if I had to choose.
Percentile is not as reflective of your results (will vary depending on the results of all the students) as the score. 151 vs 154 is not a huge difference. 5.0 vs 4.0 sounds like a significant difference to me just because not that many people get 5.0. 159 sounds good and closer to the higher end whereas 155 sounds average. 151-154 both sound average.
If you do the math, 1st attempt score is 310 vs 2nd attempt score 309 - not much difference but 1st better than 2nd.
Percentile: 1st attempt 72% ( [83%+41%+92%] /3 ) vs ? (what is % for 4.0 and verbal?) . Calculate the average score and see which one is higher.
I would not send your 2nd scores alone. I would probably just send your 1st score because the 2nd score is just average, and 1st score has a high (5.0) and close to high (159) scores.

 

[deleted797640]

Most schools will accept a "super" scored gre which allows you to use the highest of each regardless of when you took the gre. Meaning you can use your highest verbal and highest quantitative.