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Chapter 1
Introduction
THE GRE AND YOU
So youve finally decided what to do with your post-college life. Youre not going to pursue the vaunted M.D., nor are you going to chase the lucrative J.D. Rather, the initials you desire to follow your name are M.A., M.S., or Ph.D. In short, you want to go to graduate school. However, since you cant simply sign up for grad school, youre going to have to tackle the application process. That means writing essays, soliciting recommendations, gathering transcripts, and taking the Graduate Record Examination, otherwise known as the GRE. Nearly all graduate programs require the GRE, so no matter what field you intend to pursue, the GRE probably lies in your future. The GRE is written by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the same folks who inflicted the SAT upon you during your high school days.
What Does the GRE Measure?
Thats an excellent question. According to ETS, the GRE measures analytical writing, verbal, and quantitative skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study. Lets think about that for a moment. What seems to be missing from this statement? If you said, Something directly related to how successful I will be as a grad student, youre on the right track. Notice that even ETS doesnt claim that the GRE measures how well youll perform in a program of anthropology, or psychology, or religious studies, or art history, or physics. The GRE is not a test of intelligence or of your aptitude for graduate study. Despite this, graduate schools use it because it gives them an objective way to compare applicants whose other qualifications are often quite subjective.