Chris Swimmer

Yale GRE Scores

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This post was updated in May 2018 to reflect the latest information.

Many universities boast a number of notable alumni, but few universities hold a candle to Yale University’s impressive and wide-ranging list of former students. If you were to somehow manage to get them in a room for a party, you’d be rubbing elbows with presidents, senators, authors, economists, and certainly a famous actor or two. But what does that mean for you, not-quite-yet-notable grad school applicant? Well, it means that you’ve got your work cut out for you if you want to join the elite alums of Yale. And one of the key factors in deciding your fate is naturally going to be the GRE. So what scores will you need?

 

Average GRE scores for Yale – Engineering

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Here’s the US News & World Report data on the engineering program at Yale:

Program Average Verbal Average Quantitative
Engineering – Master’s 155* 167
Engineering – PhD 157* 167

 
*US News & World Report has not provided updated information for these scores; however, we have included these as the last listed scores for this program.
 
The Verbal Scores are in the 68th and 75th percentiles and the Quantitative are in the 93rd and 97th.

Estimating Yale GRE scores in other disciplines

Below is an estimated range of scores you could expect from Yale’s ranked programs. For more on the methodology behind the numbers, see Methodology. 🙂

Program US News Rank Estimated Verbal Range Estimated Quantitative Range
Biological Sciences 6 158-162 160-164
Chemistry 11 155-159 159-163
Computer Science 20 153-157 164-168
Earth Sciences 14 156-160 156-160
Economics 4 160-164 169-170
English 1 162-166 157-161
Fine Arts 2 162-166 159-163
History 2 161-165 156-160
Mathematics 8 159-163 170
Physics 9 161-165 168-170
Political Science 6 162-166 161-165
Psychology 6 157-161 156-160
Sociology 18 156-160 153-157


Resources to get the GRE scores you’ll need

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

Methodology

Using the limited score data in the US News & World Report’s release on graduate schools (for engineering and education), I created a block scale that assumes a standard difference between the ETS’s average of intended applicants of a specific major and the rank block (ie Ranks 1-10, 11-50, 51-100). Next I added the expected difference to the average score of the intended major and spread 2 points on either side of that to create a nice range. It would look like this:

Program Rank Rank block Intended Score Exp Difference Range
English 4 #1-10 157 7 points 162-166

Of course, you could argue that this isn’t perfect, and I’d have to agree. This is just intended to give you a general idea of what you should be aiming for. 🙂

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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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