Chris Swimmer

UCLA GRE Scores

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West Coast dreaming and hoping to go to graduate school in sunny Los Angeles? Well you can bet your boots that there are plenty more like you out there hoping to escape the dreary East Coast winter sessions in the snow and trade them in for a bleached blonde Master’s or PhD from UCLA. That means you’ve got to prove you can make the cut somehow.

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Enter the GRE. Sure the test is far from perfect, but it’s definitely a tool that the admissions committee uses to separate the wheat from the chaffe. That means that while it won’t be the only factor used in admitting you, it can make or break your application. So what do you need?

Average GRE Scores for UCLA – Education and Engineering

If you’re gunning for such a prestigious university like UCLA or Columbia, you can rest assured an average score on the GRE isn’t going to get you very far. Here’s the US News & World Report data on the engineering and education programs at UCLA:

Program Estimated Verbal Estimated Quantitative
Engineering – Master’s 152 164
Engineering – PhD 156 167
Education – Master’s 154 154
Education – PhD/EdD 157 154

 


Estimating UCLA GRE Scores in Other Disciplines

“Wait, wait!” you may be saying. “US News & World Report doesn’t provide GRE scores for other programs!” True–but, based on the program rankings and scores from Engineering and Education, we were able to do some nifty math and estimate GRE scores for UCLA’s other programs.

Program US News Rank Estimated Verbal Range Estimated Quantitative Range
Biological Sciences 17 155-159 155-159
Chemistry 16 155-159 159-163
Computer Science 14 153-157 164-168
Earth Sciences 14 156-160 156-160
Economics 12 157-161 164-168
English 11 159-163 152-156
Fine Arts 1 162-166 159-163
History 5 161-165 156-160
Mathematics 7 159-163 170
Physics 17 158-162 163-167
Political Science 12 159-163 156-160
Psychology 3 157-161 156-160
Public Administration 10 159-163 159-163
Social Work 9 155-159 153-157
Sociology 6 159-163 158-162
Library Sciences 14 159-163 152-156

Resources to Get the GRE Scores You’ll Need for UCLA

Check out the following links for more help preparing for the GRE:

Notes about Comments

While I’d love to give everyone some kind of hard and fast number for your chances (it’s a nerve wracking, opaque experience, I know), I unfortunately can’t. This is because there are numerous factors involved in the admissions decisions and most of those factors aren’t the GRE. The best I can do is tell you below/at/above the score range, but that information you can see for yourself above. My universal recommendation is that you check where you stand compared to the tables above. Then have a look at the forums to see student experiences. Good luck! 🙂

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  • Chris Swimmer

    Chris Swimmer is an analyst at Magoosh who divides his time between marketing and research projects and helping folks out with their math hang ups while studying for the GRE and the GMAT. Follow him on Google+! And you can follow him @chrisrswimmer on Twitter.

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