翻到的Gatech 关于test和RL的一点的~希望能给大家提供帮助~~

是 CS方面的，但觉得也可以引申到其他的major和方面
Q: Could I have more info about recommendations ?

From the NAGPS Guide to Graduate Students :

Admissions committees expect recommendations to support and reinforce the rest of the application. They act as a sort of reality check. When the information from your recommendor doesnt match up with the information youve provided, it looks bad.

Great recommendations are rarely enough to save a weak application from doom. But they might push a borderline case over to the admit pile.

Mediocre recommendations are potentially harmful: an application that is strong in all other areas now has an inconsistency that's hard to ignore.

Bad recommendations meaning that negative information is provided cast doubt on the picture youve created. In some cases they invalidate your claims. This can mean the end for your application. Again, be careful whom you ask for recommendations.

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If you are applying to engineering grad schools, a quantitative score of >= 700 is desirable. In general, a combined score of > 1300 (Verbal + Quantitative) is generally required for consideration for admission to the top 10-15 schools However, the impression I have gotten from talking to grad coordinators at various departments is this : if your GRE scores are extremely high, they are not of much help...if your GRE scores are abnormally low, they hurt you.

Forget the GRE...make sure you get good, strong letters of recommendations - this is probably the most important thing (with GPA for the last 60 credit hours the second most important criteria). And make sure you have a good reason for going to grad school...nothing ticks off a grad coordinator more than having to review an application from someone who has no idea why he/she wants to pursue graduate studies.

Q: I have already done the GRE and am thinking of retaking it - should I ?A:
The Educational Testing Service's statistics show that most people who retake the GREs do better. Whether this is because testees are better prepared because of familiarity with the test format, or simply because people retake the test because they expect to do better, ETS does not speculate.

• Overall scores may be important, but faculty in different disciplines are likely to look at scores differently: High scores on the verbal measure are more likely to be important for admission to an English department than to a Chemistry department. High scores on the Quantitative measure are more likely to be important for admission to a Physics department than to a Philosophy department.In recognition of this, ETS is proposing (long term) a modular format for the GRE in which each institution which uses GRE scores would specify which modules need to be taken for applying to specific disciplines.
• Unless one is applying to the most competitive programs in the country (so that the applicant pool is composed primarily of persons with 80 or 90th percentile rankings), if one's rank is no lower than the 56th percentile in any of the measures, I'd say those scores were better than respectable.
• In most cases, GREs are one of several factors relating to graduate admission. I would be surprised if GRE scores alone in the top 50th percentile kept anyone out of a graduate program.
  

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对gre分数作用的很好的一个解读。多谢分享