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- From: bhat@cs.columbia.edu (Dinkar Bhat)
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Gre scores
- Message-ID: <C1J7sB.E3q@cs.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:31:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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- In article <CEDMAN.93Jan26163825@capitalist.princeton.edu> cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
- >In article <1k2davINN8m3@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> owen-christopher@yale.edu (Christopher Owen) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan25.220503.25309@Virginia.EDU> mjr4u@Virginia.EDU (Matthew Jerome Rush) writes:
- > >How important is your analytical score? I did pretty average
- > >on the first two, but got a 690 on what I like to call the
- > >"Crossword Puzzle Book" section. Did that really help me get
- > >into a good English program?
- >
- > This really depends. Some programs openly say that they don't consider the
- > analytical score. Most psychology programs for instance claim that they
- > don't even look at it (unlikely but that is what they say). My guess is
- > that a good analytical score will of course help in english programs, but
- > not all that much.
- >
- I consider the analytical part as a ridiculous. If you have a bag of tricks
- you will be fine. The analytical part has the highest degree of error compared
- to the other two. It may be more suitable to somebody who wants to be in
- business?
-
- Dinkar.
-