jsv@hpsad.HP.COM (Jeff Vetter) (07/14/90)
I recently noticed that MIT does not require the GRE for EE/CS graduate school. Almost all of the other top rated schools adamantly require these scores; they say the scores are a very important part of the admissions process. Why doesn't MIT require GREs? Since other schools use these scores as an intricate part of the admissions process, how does MIT compensate for this when rating the candidates for admission? Jeffrey S. Vetter Design Engineer jsv@hpsad.HP.COM Hewlett Packard Signal Analysis Division Rohnert Park, CA ===============================================================================
matloff@badger.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff) (07/18/90)
In article <2640004@hpsad.HP.COM> jsv@hpsad.HP.COM (Jeff Vetter) writes: > I recently noticed that MIT does not require the GRE for EE/CS graduate >school. Almost all of the other top rated schools adamantly require these >scores; they say the scores are a very important part of the admissions >process. > Why doesn't MIT require GREs? The GRE, and its "sister" test the SAT, have often been criticized as being unfair, unreliable, etc. I personally disagree; the GRE is not perfect, but it is a highly valuable tool for selecting students. My understanding, though, is that MIT wanted to look "fair," and thus dispensed with GREs. BUT THEY CAN AFFORD TO DO SO! When your applicant pool consists almost entirely of straight-A students from highly selective schools, the GRE is expendable. But for the rest of us schools, the GRE is quite important. Norm