Comments | applyingtograd: English PhD Top Tier

yo10mickle in applyingtograd

English PhD Top Tier - Verbal GRE?

Aug 18, 2007 17:16

This community is great, by the way. So, time to be candid. Are you a student in a top-tier English PhD program? If so what was your GRE Verbal score? Or are you applying to English PhD programs and have heard what's good? 720 - high end, low end, average for the best of the best programs? Thanks. And yes I know everything else matters and ( Read more... )

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egydystonic August 18 2007, 22:31:12 UTC

I don't know how you're imagining "tiers," but a friend was accepted to two overall top-20 (and higher in his field) programs in English with a 630.

icarus_ August 19 2007, 02:07:25 UTC

Folk wisdom 'round here is 700+. But who the hell knows.

bujakalaka August 20 2007, 00:53:33 UTC

I'm about to start at an amazing school (Johns Hopkins) and was accepted at two others (NYU and Indiana): my GRE Verbal was 740. The first time I took it I got a 680, and was strongly advised to take it again if I thought I could score above a 700.

icarus_ August 20 2007, 14:12:23 UTC

hey, could I ask you some questions about JHU? how could we do that?

bujakalaka August 20 2007, 15:01:33 UTC

sure, send me an email with whatever you'd like to know.

nick [dot] bujak [at] gmail.com