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[camus8]

$115 to take the GRE???!!?!?!?

These people have lost their freakin' mind. No wonder they let you take it once a month for 5 months if you so wish.

Seriously, this is insane. For all of you that have already taken it, I now feel the pain in your pocket! We won't even talk about the mental pain and anguish.

Thanks.

Comments

[biogirl_79]

Yeah....and the price isn't even the worst of it....

[sin_skin_bone]

Agreed, the price is a cake walk compared to what the test is really like. Be sure to brush up on all your math from Stats to Algebra 2, and I cannot stress enough the importance to go through their vocab list before you take the muther fucker. I took the exam twice and that still didn't help me get into graduate school. :(

[quatrevingtdix]

That's because it's not made to actually measure your knowledge or anything remotely related to that. Grad school has absolutely NOTHING to do with the GRE. Every single day I am reminded of that.

[biogirl_79]

I wish someone would tell the universities this.

Too much lies on this one stupid test...I hate it. They should go on your transcript alone...or make you take a specialized exam. I took the practice MCAT online (at the time I was pre-med...now I'm not) and scored worlds better than I did on the general GRE. How messed up is that. Why test me on knowledge I'm never going to use?

grr...

*steps down off her soapbox*

[camus8]

I hear this similar reply from many people and therefore feel fortunate that linguistics really doesn't care about GRE scores. They do "care" but only to decide who gets the assistantships and so-on. Believe it or not, if you want to get into linguistics at MIT, yes, MIT, they do not require a GRE exam. So it appears that linguistics is a field that realizes that the exam is shit and will tell them nothing about how good of a linguist you will become. They don't even stress your GPA. Instead, they are very concerned about your writing sample, letters or recommendation, and your statement of purpose. From the basic writings online from different programs, they want to see if you can "think" more than how well you perform on exams.

From what I'm hearing from you all, I wish all fields were this "easy." But I still have to pay $115 for this crap. What a waste of time and money because you're right, it has nothing to do with school. It's like they're trying to segregate people based on their intellect.

Thanks for the reply.