What is considered a good score on the chem GRE?

[chemstudent323]

Hi -

I was just wondering if anyone knew what is considered a 'good' score on the chemistry subject test GRE for an undergraduate student?

[Holden_Caulfield]

Originally Posted by chemstudent323

Hi -

I was just wondering if anyone knew what is considered a 'good' score on the chemistry subject test GRE for an undergraduate student?

Hi,
I will answer immediately after you define the term "good" in your coordinate system.

As you can figure out from posts in this abondoned thread 850 is "good" for Cornell. For OSU, if I remember it right - 770 is "good".
The choice is yours.

[aloe]

A good score for international applicants needs to be much higher than that of US applicants. That is because admissions committees know that international applicants will spend much more time preparing for these exams and have much more, shall we say, extreme/cheating sorts of mechanisms to help them do very well on these tests. So an international applicant needs at least 90% to be considered competitive, while a US applicant will do fine with a 70%. But a US applicant will not be hurt by their GRE Chemistry scores until it gets below 50%.

[Salman309]

I guess this is a very stupid sort of a comment that people from other parts of the world use cheating materials or study alot to get good scores while US students are so talented that they can do it anyway. I think they are not superhuman or some superficial sort of creatures. They can be beaten by any brain from any part of the world.
So watch it next time..........................