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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^^ I should have also added that one reason undergraduate institution does not matter in many programs is because you can see the coursework and research experience but most of all because of the GRE. If a student from Northwest Alabama State gets a 96th percentile GRE, in my opinion they are more worthy for admission than a person with a 90th percentile GRE from Harvard. Pedigree simply means nothing to us (not speaking for all programs as other Profs here have said it matters for them). That is also a reason why it is very very sad that so many schools no longer require GRE or other standardized test. It is very very hard to know if someone has the [b]requisite intellectual horsepower [/b]without it, especially in today's universities where the median grade at many elite schools is now an A-[/quote]

Eh, the GRE doesn't even correlate well with IQ. This cut-off approach to the GRE is out of step with the top PhD programs I'm familiar with in several different disciplines in sciences and social sciences.  It just is kind of a fluffy test--and kind of odd to think that the same test that doesn't even correlate well with general IQ is going to be an important predictor of who is going to be a great PhD in Literature, Chemistry or Anthropology etc.  Now for professional schools and the MCAT or the LSAT--yeah, it's all numbers driven--and maybe being more discipline-specific those are more relevant tests.

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