The topic of the GRE is an incredibly large one with many varied opinions.
Everyone has the right to have their own ideas on what makes a good student
and how you gauge that in advance. However, we as the "deciders" must think
about the impact on the future of the scientific community. We are
selec
ission becomes even more questionable."
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After skimming the GRE "justification" document provided by the ETS link in
the post below I couldn't help thinking that I've heard these arguments
somewhere before, yes, yes, that's it "Guns don't kill people, people kill
people" so maybe it's "GRE's don't keep people out of grad programs, people
Hi all,
Since I was chosen at random by Phil, I feel a reply may be warranted. My
post was, indirectly, about what to do when the metrics at hand collide.
Simply, take all else over GREs, for all the various reasons given in the
chain (e.g., possible to learn the tricks instead of the subjects, he
You can question the source, but here is one study on the subject:
https://www.ets.org/research/policy_research_reports/publications/report/2005/hsiu
Terry
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> On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:39 PM, "Ganter, Philip" wrote:
>
> Well, lets examine the reasoning in this last post (for con
Hello All,
Of course they matter. They matter because they're part of the selective
environment created by graduate admission committees.
I'd like to ask the daring question, "How do admission committees evaluate
their use of GRE scores for their admission decisions?".
For this, I wo
Well, lets examine the reasoning in this last post (for convenience --
parallels can be found in several posts in this thread). GREs don't work for
some. Scrap them. So we establish the precedent that, if a measure does not
always predict the ability of an applicant, it is worthless.
Lets ap
