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Question in a nutshell: Should I retake the GRE if I have only one bad score (148) and everything else on my application is very strong?
I'm applying early decision. One of my mentors is actually a professor of the DPT program I am applying to, and has been guiding me through applying. She said that because I am already a strong applicant (3.94 GPA, lots of research and clinical experience, great letters of rec, etc) that I probably only needed to score maybe a 40th-50th percentile on the GRE to be competitive. On all the practice GREs I was scoring 50-60th percentile no problem.
Well, GRE was today and I woke up sick. Did fine on verbal, but completely screwed up quant (148) which is around 35th percentile believe? I also feel pretty confident on my essays.
I really don't know what to do. I don't know if they will look past probably the only lower-than-average thing on my application or not.
Any input? Is one lower-than-average score going to ruin my chances?
I'm applying early decision. One of my mentors is actually a professor of the DPT program I am applying to, and has been guiding me through applying. She said that because I am already a strong applicant (3.94 GPA, lots of research and clinical experience, great letters of rec, etc) that I probably only needed to score maybe a 40th-50th percentile on the GRE to be competitive. On all the practice GREs I was scoring 50-60th percentile no problem.
Well, GRE was today and I woke up sick. Did fine on verbal, but completely screwed up quant (148) which is around 35th percentile believe? I also feel pretty confident on my essays.
I really don't know what to do. I don't know if they will look past probably the only lower-than-average thing on my application or not.
Any input? Is one lower-than-average score going to ruin my chances?
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