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Tests used by graduate school admissions offices--such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT)--are all administered by the Educational Testing Service...
...statements attributed to me concerning GRE scores in psychology are sufficiently inaccurate to warrant correction. In the first place, I did not say that highly-rated graduate departments "place very little importance on test scores," but rather that GRE scores are but one input among many in the admissions process. In particular, undergraduate academic achievement and faculty recommendations are likely to be given more weighty consideration. Furthermore, it is important to distinguish between the GRE aptitude test scores and the GRE advanced test (psychology) score: a number of graduate departments consider the former to be a valuable indicator, while discounting...
Secondly, I stated that students graduating from undergraduate institutions smaller and less well-known than Harvard (not students applying to lesser known graduate schools) are likely to be judged to a greater degree on the basis of GRE scores. This results simply from the fact that the undergraduate curriculs and faculty recommendors at these schools may be less familiar to graduate departments, a situation which may cause graduate admissions committees to rely more heavily upon GRE results. Ann Bennett Spence Assistant Director Office for Graduate and Career Plans
...Windward Islands (pop. 321,600) produce bay rum on St. Lucia, nutmeg on Grenada (pronounced Gre-nay-da), arrowroot for babies' cookies on St. Vincent, and cocoa on Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka,). St. Lucia houses a U.S. missile-tracking station for Cape Canaveral's downrange...
...Dutch critics believe that no Italian singer can surpass light-timbred Dramatic Soprano Gre Brouwenstijn, 41, as an interpreter of Verdi. She was a rising star in Dutch radio and opera just before the war but did not get her big chance until 1946, when The Netherlands Opera signed her. She made her reputation in // Tro-vatore, Jenufa, branched into Wagnerian opera at Bayreuth with resounding success, is currently one of the busiest stars on this summer's festival circuit...