Your GRE Score

As soon as you complete the GRE, you will have the option of either canceling your scores (in which case neither you nor anyone else will ever know how you did on the test) or accepting your results. If you accept your test results, you will see your Verbal and Quantitative scaled scores immediately. However, you must wait a few weeks before receiving your results on the Analytical Writing Section by mail, as a real person actually grades the essays.

Scores you will see on your GRE score report:

  • Overall scaled GRE Verbal score (200-800 points)
  • Overall scaled GRE Quantitative score (200-800 points)
  • GRE percentile scores (1-99)
  • Scaled Analytical Writing score (1.0-6.0 points)

What your GRE score means to Graduate Schools

Although many factors (such as your undergraduate major, grade point average, and the college or university you attended) play a role in graduate school admissions decisions, your performance on the GRE is an important part of the admissions puzzle. In addition, many graduate programs rely on GRE scores when making decisions about how much financial aid to award accepted applicants.

However, graduate programs often vary widely in how they use GRE scores when making admission decisions. For example, if you are applying to a master’s degree program in English Literature or History, your score on the Verbal section of the GRE is likely to be more important than your score on the Quantitative section. On the other hand, if you are applying to a Ph.D. program in chemistry or engineering, your GRE Quantitative score will probably be more important.

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