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Originally Posted by 30261
ppl say verbal score may not be that important for finance, but then, gre math hardly serves to differentiate between ppl and
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Ppl say verbal score is not important because it is not important for getting into a PhD program in Finance (duh!) Take a look at the economics forum. One of the first threads on that forum is the profile of numerous candidates who have got into Econ PhD programs and you can see that the performance on the verbal section of the GRE has close-to-zero correlation with where somebody got in. I remember from memory the profile of someone who got into more selective places than anybody else I can think of including Stanford GSB Economic Analysis & Policy and Harvard Business School's Business Economics (which by the way is also their Finance program) and he had a verbal score in the 300s. What I think your comment misses is that there are lots of ways for applicants to distinguish themselves to admissions committees such as recommendation letters/
SOPs/ publications, etc. and I am pretty sure that at the places in the top 10, successful applicants would be strong on all of those dimensions.