Re: [Phys-L] GRE worse than useless

[bernard cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

This is just the most recent “nail in the coffin”.  

Back in about ’62 the U at Santa Barbara wouldn’t admit me, because my total physics at UCSB undergrad was sl. below a B.  I graduated w/ honor, because of many A’s in other courses.  My recourse was the GRE.  At the time the top score was 800.  I got 790 in the physics and 780 in the other(s).  Even so, I was on probation the first year, because I earned only a C in mechanics. [1] So the GRE was not very meaningful.  Fortunately, I did much better the next years.  

bc  thankful they thought it meaningful!!

[1]  The grad. school was so new there were only three in the course.  The other two earned a D and an F!!!

> On 2020/Mar/01, at 17:52, John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org> wrote:
>
> "Multi-institutional study of GRE scores as predictors of STEM PhD degree completion: GRE gets a low mark"
> October 29, 2018
>    Sandra L. Petersen,
>    Evelyn S. Erenrich,
>    Dovev L. Levine,
>    Jim Vigoreaux,
>    Krista Gile

cut 
> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206570