8/10/2023 0 Comments Gre revisionsThis is likely because we have one college for all our graduate programs, including studio, practice-based MFAs (for which GREs are not standard). Surprisingly, at UCR (where I work), the GRE is not hard wired into the admissions process (it isn’t like, for example, undergraduate transcripts). When we see a press release from a school announcing that they are dropping them (like Brown), it is likely because they had to revise a university-wide policy to allow individual departments to stop using them. If it is hard-wired into university admissions, changing that will take some coalition-building, committee work and voting. If they are in the same governing structure (college/school) as your department, this a good, easy-to-find clue regarding the flexibility of your college/school regarding the use of the GRE. Is it written into admissions requirements for your school? I recommend looking around to graduate programs that strike you as unlikely to require them. And take the conversation to the administrator running your graduate school (Dean, etc.).įind out if your graduate school requires them in admissions. If your program/department documents do not list the GRE as an admissions requirement (of the order of, say, the undergraduate degree and transcript), then raise your desire to stop using them with your grad admissions committee, Chair, and in department meetings. If you can’t or don’t want to eliminate them, you might exempt some applicants from needing to take them. Many do not require them from international applicants who have taken the TOEFL, or from graduates from their own campus. Note: some programs do not require GREs from applicants with recent MAs. Put it on agendas, collaborate with colleagues on making space to reflect on their role in admissions, and if there is support for moving away from them, work on revising the policy. If the GRE is included in the kind of policy whose revision requires a vote, you will need to revise that document within departmental and campus governing protocols. If you are not on your department’s admissions team but want to get involved, serving on campus-wide committees may be the way to go.įind out if your department has written the GRE requirement into departmental stone. In the documents that describe your department or program’s degree requirements, are the GREs listed as a hard requirement for admission to the program? If not, hopefully you are serving on admissions. It helps if you are the Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Admissions or Chair of your department. I wrote this basic overview to help colleagues figure out how to do this on their own campus.
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