GRE Credits at Empire State College and Graduate Schools

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  1. diplox

    diplox New Member

    Hi,

    I'm just wondering, for those of you who've done GRE for credits at the undergraduate levels, did this later present a problem for you when you applied to graduate schools? Particularly for those of you who applied for brick-and-mortar schools to do masters?

    Also, for those of you who've done this through Empire State College, in general how does Empire apply credits from the GRE towards your degree? Will they just give you credits for various subjects covered by the GRE that are on your degree plan? Oh, and, I'm going to be starting in the Spring, but I won't be taking the GRE until near the end of the Spring Semester, can I still transfer the GRE creds even after I've started attending? I tried asking the Empire staff this question, but they said to ask my mentor(who I haven't been assigned yet) so I thought I'd ask here.

    Thanks.
     
    diplox, Oct 15, 2010
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  2. james_lankford

    james_lankford New Member

    Are you sure Empire grants credits for the GRE ?
    can you provide a link to their web page where it says they do ?
    Excelsior did, but I didn't think Empire did
     
    james_lankford, Oct 15, 2010
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  3. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    They do, and they do portfolio credit as well. I will find the page for you.
     
    Maniac Craniac, Oct 15, 2010
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  4. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    http://suny-empire.esc.edu/media/escwebsite/content/forms/Credit-College-level-Learn-09.pdf#xml=http://localhost/texis/search/pdfhi.txt?query=gre&pr=prospects&prox=page&rorder=500&rprox=500&rdfreq=500&rwfreq=500&rlead=500&rdepth=0&sufs=0&order=r&cq=&sr=-1&id=4cb6aa84d

    I found a post on another web forum that claims that ESC will grant up to 36 credits for GRE, but I can not find that reference anywhere on the site. That would be a great question for someone to ask someone at the school :p
     
    Maniac Craniac, Oct 15, 2010
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  5. ChiSquare

    ChiSquare New Member

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    ChiSquare, Oct 15, 2010
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  6. diplox

    diplox New Member

    I don't believe Empire actually publishes on their own site how many credits they award. From reading online it appears to be on a sliding scale, from 8 I believe, all the way to (as you said) 36 credits, depending on your score on the GRE test. Also, if no one else does, as soon as I get my mentor assignment, I'll ask about the exact policy.
     
    diplox, Oct 15, 2010
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  7. diplox

    diplox New Member

    Direct from my mentor:

    You can use the GRE subject exams for credits; you would take the exams and have the results sent to ESC Admissions, just like a transcript.
    There are 8 GRE subject exams:
    Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology
    Literature in English
    Biology
    Mathematics
    Chemistry
    Physics
    Computer Science
    Psychology

    The number of credits you receive depends on what percentile you fall into; you can get anywhere from 6 to 36 credits in each subject depending on the rank you receive : 20-29th percentile gets 6 credits; 30-39th gets 9; 40-49th gets 15; 50-59th gets 18; 60-69th gets 24; 70-79th gets 27; 80-89th gets 30; 90-95th gets 33; 96th-+ gets 36. One-third of the total credit for each exam is considered introductory; two-thirds is considered advanced.
     
    diplox, Nov 26, 2010
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