What is a good GRE score to get admission into UCF?
July 20th, 2009 | 
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I have to go to UCF for my grad school and I was wondering if anyone knows what a good GRE score is for a "guaranteed" admission or for a really high chance of getting in.
2) Also, in general, at all colleges, what is considered a decent GRE score and what is considered a great/extraordinary GRE score?
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It depends on what you want to pursue. If you are going there for engineering, your math section scores should have a good performance. If you are going there for English, your verbal section should have been well done. There is no guaranteed score, and from what I remember about UCF, is that most programs aren’t very competitive. Look at your GRE scores – they’ll tell you how you compared to the national average and what percentile each section is. If you scored a 500 in math, some schools see that as good, others as the bare minimum. For UCF, I would try to score at least the 50th percentile (whatever that is, probably around 450-500 each in verbal and math). It’s not always about the score, as GPA is the other major factor. If your GPA is high and the GRE’s not so hot, play that up and sell them on the fact that you’re a hard worker, and that they shouldn’t judge you by one standardized test alone.
On average, a score in a section above 700 is considered excellent. 600-700 is very good, while 500-600 is good. These scoring rules of thumb also apply to the GMAT.
I just went through the process of applying to grad schools last fall and am currently in my first semester at the University of Colorado. First off, there is no guaranteed school, period. You can have a perfect GRE score, but if you have poor or average letters of recommendation, G.P.A. and writing sample, they wont even look at you. Or you can be above and beyond in all categories and if they have no room, they have no room. Its a combination of many components.
Many reputable universities in various departments (mine is history) don’t even require the GRE because they see it as a poor indicator of how a student will do in grad school, i.e. a student who scores high can fail out and someone who scores very low will end up writing an amazing dissertation. One such university is Northwestern.
Hope that helped.
It’s UCF. You can pretty much spit on a piece of paper, hand it to them, and get in. How do you think they got to be second largest university in the nation by enrollment?