What is major GPA, GRE scores or publications?

[IllBeThere]

Hi guys,
I'm completely confused... What do you think is major GPA, GRE scores or publications?

[priyananda]

Major GPA is the Grade Point Average obtained for those courses pertaining to your major. For example, if your major is Computer Science, then you can calculate the Major GPA by considering only courses related to CS.

I'm not sure what you want to know about GRE. I suggest you look up http://ets.org to understand GRE scoring or be more particular about your question.

[pritam_vaish]

All univ. have different preferences. For a non US student-Master's applicant
order is GRE, GPA, PUBLICATIONS.
For PhD students, GRE , Publications, GPA. GRE generally serves as a prerequisite and then an assorted score is calculated on basis of candidate's profile, finally Yes/No is decided if the score is more/less than cut off of that year.
I know all this because I was in the selection committee of a US university.
Graduate Students in many departments are actively involved in selection