Physics GRE Discussion Forums

How much did you score, and where are you planning to apply?
Please put your profiles so that other applicants get an idea too.

I also took the test on 18th but I still don't know my score....How do i find out??...they are supposed to send me a letter or something....by the way I am an international student ....also, do you know if it is possible to check online???

According to my letter it was send out on the 22nd, so with international mail and USPS being so incredible slow in that (Letter from Germany takes 4 to 7 days, a letter to Germany takes 2 to 3 weeks) you will get your letter sometime next week or the following week....

You can always call ETS and ask for your score...

They have finally introduced a system that lets you do the scores reports online, so I dunno when they will get around to be in the year 2000 and let us get the scores online

How much did you score, and where are you planning to apply?
Please put your profiles so that other applicants get an idea too.

Here's my profile:

International student (European) in a small US liberal arts school with a relatively strong Physics Department (we consistently have students accepted into some of the top 10 schools)
GPA 3.99 - General, 4.00 - Physics
PGRE - 930
General GRE - I am taking the test on Monday, but from the practice tests I expect ~600 Verbal, 800 Math
Any additional information:
- bronze medal from the International Physics Olympiad after my Senior year in high school
- hopefully pretty strong recommendations
- one minor publication + being involved in research since my freshman year
- Vice-president of the SPS chapter in my school
- got among the top 200 in the Putnam Math exam

Interested in experimental condensed matter Physics

Schools I am applying to:
MIT
Harvard
UIUC
U Chicago
Columbia
Yale
Cornell
Brown
U Florida

I really hope I am not aiming to high, and I am in the process of deciding whether I should add one safety school to that list.

nonick wrote:

How much did you score, and where are you planning to apply?
Please put your profiles so that other applicants get an idea too.

Here's my profile:

International student (European) in a small US liberal arts school with a relatively strong Physics Department (we consistently have students accepted into some of the top 10 schools)
GPA 3.99 - General, 4.00 - Physics
PGRE - 930
General GRE - I am taking the test on Monday, but from the practice tests I expect ~600 Verbal, 800 Math
Any additional information:
- bronze medal from the International Physics Olympiad after my Senior year in high school
- hopefully pretty strong recommendations
- one minor publication + being involved in research since my freshman year
- Vice-president of the SPS chapter in my school
- got among the top 200 in the Putnam Math exam

Interested in experimental condensed matter Physics

Schools I am applying to:
MIT
Harvard
UIUC
U Chicago
Columbia
Yale
Cornell
Brown
U Florida

I really hope I am not aiming to high, and I am in the process of deciding whether I should add one safety school to that list.

i think Florida is a safety for you

rohit wrote:
i think Florida is a safety for you

Thanks. That's my hope too. We'll see in April.

Helio wrote: They have finally introduced a system that lets you do the scores reports online, so I dunno when they will get around to be in the year 2000 and let us get the scores online

it's a source of income for ETS. many people call and pay 12$ to hear a voice saying their scores. getting scores online can be used as a document for self-report and they do not like it too much.

call 1-609-771-7290
or
1-888-GRE-SCORE (1-888-473-7267)
U.S., U.S. Territories*, and Canada
They need credit card info($12) and registration no.(SSN will work if you have one for US resident)

My profile:
Undergrad:IIT Kharagpur(Aerospace Eng.) (2.7/4)
MS: University of South Carolina(3.5/4)
Few Learning Projects(not much of research exp. though)
2 very strong reco, 1 good
PGRE:990

Applying for theoretical HEP to:
Harvard U
Columbia U
U. of Wisconsin-madisson
Carnegie-Mellon(No app. fee)
Penn-State(No app. fee)
U. of NC, Chapel Hill
UFl(share same thoughts as you guys)
Duke
2 more places-have to decide..

vaibhavtewari wrote:call 1-609-771-7290
or
1-888-GRE-SCORE (1-888-473-7267)
U.S., U.S. Territories*, and Canada
They need credit card info($12) and registration no.(SSN will work if you have one for US resident)

My profile:
Undergrad:IIT Kharagpur(Aerospace Eng.) (2.7/4)
MS: University of South Carolina(3.5/4)
Few Learning Projects(not much of research exp. though)
2 very strong reco, 1 good
PGRE:990

Applying for theoretical HEP to:
Harvard U
Columbia U
U. of Wisconsin-madisson
Carnegie-Mellon(No app. fee)
Penn-State(No app. fee)
U. of NC, Chapel Hill
UFl(share same thoughts as you guys)
Duke
2 more places-have to decide..

I don't think you need to apply anywhere else with 990 on the PGRE.

was thinking of applying to Yale and one more university, got a D in AQM course
so need to cover the whole spectrum...

could be do the whole profile thing in a more orderly fashion? Last year it worked, so if somebody where willing to open a thread please do so and not spam this place with 20 threads on the same topic

I just got mine today and I'm not even going to say what I got because it's absolutely a disaster. However, did anyone else notice that they scaled this test MUCH harder than *any* of the others, the 9277, 9677 and 0177?!! I'm really upset by this. My raw score was about what I expected but the scaled score is a good 30-100 points lower in the scaled score than it would have been in any of the ones online...

They scaled it harder because people got higher raw marks

do they tell you the raw score??
if they do, anyone took oct test can tell me what's the scaling is like? I'm trying to compare to my Nov test. I think Nov is easier than Oct one so i would score a bit lower using the same (estimated) raw score.
I'm so worry my score's gonna turn out worse than i expected then i would have to reconsider my whole application list.

Ren wrote:do they tell you the raw score??

They do in the score report they send you, but not when you call to get your scores early. I have no idea how this test compared to November, but my raw score was 85, which converted to 970 / 94%.