molgenmom

Dr. Steve, Thanks so much for your response. I am hoping that they don't weigh his writing very high. He is applying to around 10 schools, so hope at least most will weigh his subject tests, and analytical much higher than the other areas. Thanks so much and sounds like you are doing great.

I am the very proud mother of a Biochemistry major. He is a senior in college and getting ready to apply for molecular genetics doctorate programs. He just got the biochemistry GRE subject test back and I am very proud. Overall, for the subject, he scored 94% and got 97% for the molecular genetic portion. He took the general GRE in August and his scores were: Verbal-530, Quantitative-790 and Analytical writing-4.0 but (45%). His GPA is very good in college presently. Since his major for the doctorate program will be molecular genetics, how much consideration will schools give regarding his analytical writing which was his lowest score? Thanks so much.