Low GRE Score and High Profile University Admission : Readers comment
October 1, 2007 by Author
I’m responding to a comment about the article Secret of Getting admission with Scholarship.
Comment
I’d disagree with the part where you said “Why would someone has to waste few hundred dollars in college application fee and GRE and TOEFL score forwarding, application documents courier fee, when grad school admission is not sure.” -> You haven’t at all factored in the case that a university where you will very easily get into (with the exception of some like USC), is simply not worth it?
If you’re considering spending a sizeable portion of your savings on graduate school, why should it not be on some place where you’d be proud of attending?
In the end, you will be going to just one university and abandoning the other admits, and hence, its only that one good admit that matters, instead of a dozen mediocre ones.
My Response
@ Home Simpson
I agree to you that you disagree on the statement I have written.
But, I meant that statement to go with above few lines too, not stand alone meaning.
“.. I would like to relate the word Ambitious to Luck with less probability. Why would someone has to waste few hundred dollars in college application fee and GRE and TOEFL score forwarding, application documents courier fee, when grad school admission is not sure…”
We all know and agree to study in school where we would feel proud, but at the same time we need to be aware of our achievements in terms of GRE, TOEFL, and other credentials that is taken into account.
Even though we believe within oneself that we are much more capable, even if we scored less in GRE, TOEFL, Academics, it doesn’t show out anything to committee reviewing graduate school the application.
When deciding on schools, students categorize the list of universities as Ambitious, Moderate, Safe for getting graduate school admission.
If your score and all credentials satisfies only say 50 - 70% of what a universities minimum requirements, then you can apply for it and consider that school as Ambitious. but, its waste of money when you have “less than 5%” of their graduate school minimum requirements satisfied and applying for such schools is what I say as waste of money.
Most of the profiles I’m evaluating, they have ambitious schools listed as follows. For instance, someone with GRE of 950, TOEFL 66, academics of 55% with 4 backlogs and no research experience has UT Austin in their list for M.S. in Computer Science… That’s what I call as waste of money…
Hope you can understand what I’m trying to explain. I appreciate your time in visiting my blog and valuable comments.
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im looking at old dominion university, illinois institute of technilogy, embry riddle and probably university of alabama at huntsville to pursue my graduate studies in aerospace engineering. my gre score is 670-Q and 510-V, i dont have yet the AWA score since i took it about 2 weeks ago. what are my chances in getting into the program of course, just like any bgrad school hopeful, with financial aid or any funding?need HELP with this thanks…
@gdcruz: I know University of Florida has good Aerospace program and Embry Riddle is expensive, but the best program for aerospace.