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UPDATE: The school's requirement is invariant. They need fresher test scores. The department is willing to hold off and let me take the GREs and reserve judgement until the scores come in.
Man, do I hate standardized tests. Time to ponder taking the damn things cold. Eugh.
And, yes, I'm bloody well aware that this is my own damn fault. Should've asked about this several months ago. But maybe I just expected too much from an otherwise hidebound institution.
It appears that my grad school application to UM's Microbiology/Immunology department may be rejected outright for the sole reason that my GRE scores are out of date. Is it my fault that the Keepers of the GRE, Educational Testing Services, run a racket and don't keep scores beyond five years? Yes, I didn't take the tests over again, as I forgot about the damn things until mid-November, and I didn't feel like dropping $100+ on the tests (General and Subject) and taking them cold. Those numbers worked for you 10 years ago, why not take them now?
But I ask the rhetorical question... for a potential graduate student, would you rather take someone who has demonstrated their ability to take standardized general tests on a computer, or would you prefer someone who's bringing 12+ years of experience to the school? If the former, solely because of a school-wide requirement to keep average admittee test-scores high, then the hell with you.
Man, do I hate standardized tests. Time to ponder taking the damn things cold. Eugh.
And, yes, I'm bloody well aware that this is my own damn fault. Should've asked about this several months ago. But maybe I just expected too much from an otherwise hidebound institution.
It appears that my grad school application to UM's Microbiology/Immunology department may be rejected outright for the sole reason that my GRE scores are out of date. Is it my fault that the Keepers of the GRE, Educational Testing Services, run a racket and don't keep scores beyond five years? Yes, I didn't take the tests over again, as I forgot about the damn things until mid-November, and I didn't feel like dropping $100+ on the tests (General and Subject) and taking them cold. Those numbers worked for you 10 years ago, why not take them now?
But I ask the rhetorical question... for a potential graduate student, would you rather take someone who has demonstrated their ability to take standardized general tests on a computer, or would you prefer someone who's bringing 12+ years of experience to the school? If the former, solely because of a school-wide requirement to keep average admittee test-scores high, then the hell with you.
