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Originally Posted by rvalchev
I do not agree that GRE scores function only as a treshold. I have no practice or experience with which to back it up, but consider this. If we assume that adcoms are rational maximizing human beings (may not be entirely true in genral, but econ adcoms probably get real close to the ideal) then it seems suboptimal to me for them to ignore information. GREs might be primarily used as a screening tool in general, but you never know what happens on the margin. If you have two candidates with the exact same profiles but the one has a little bit of a higher GRE score then I would assume the higher GRE score would get him in. On the margin, any single part of your profile can make it or break it.
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You have a good point. I will agree that if everything else is exactly the same, then the GRE Q could be used on the margin I guess, but the other parts of the application in fact are never exactly the same, while the GRE Q is often the same as many others.
With respect to
the OP's concern, my disagreement is the fact that the studying should be 95% Q and 5% V given that they already scored a 770 Q. Now, if a 480 is good enough everywhere then maybe this can hold up. My concern is whether 480 is considered non-questionable. If so, then there will be no need to improve this, but also a 770 might also be good enough (of course 800 is full-proof).
I personally studied about 95%Q and 5% V but the outcome clearly reflected this. The point I am trying to make is that
the OP should be thinking what to do on the margin. Assuming (s)he will get 770Q and 480V without studying anymore, what is the optimal mix for the next 4 weeks. I say even 50-50 mix would be good enough to improve both. Especially since 770 is close to 800 so it will not be too hard to get this up to 790 or even 800; while there is much more room to improve the V. But of course, this depends on whether you think doing better than 480V will help at all.
Just my two cents.