tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1398620659484752634.post2956623201090567400..comments2023-04-17T09:52:42.469-04:00Comments on Around the Couch: The GRE: Reflections on Academic Irrelevancenedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16554980991259845738noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1398620659484752634.post-84396901814784414042009-06-23T13:32:05.597-04:002009-06-23T13:32:05.597-04:00Standard, I certainly hope you are right, particul...Standard, I certainly hope you are right, particularly about interdepartmental cooperation. The op-ed in the New York Times I referenced in my post was not so encouraging. There was a particularly disturbing part where the professor who wrote the article mentioned that his colleague's best PhD student was doing his dissertation on the use of footnotes by a certain medieval theologian. FromRTTFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03686391672230762618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1398620659484752634.post-69267999098127048222009-06-22T19:03:29.312-04:002009-06-22T19:03:29.312-04:00I understand your GRE cynicism, but, in my experie...I understand your GRE cynicism, but, in my experience, the link between the GRE and the academic institutions that require it is almost nonexistent. (And I say that as an English PhD candidate.) The problem seems to be with the test itself rather than academia: although nearly all schools require the GRE, almost none pay too much attention to your score - unless, that is, you do miserably. <br />Standardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038567004657197420noreply@blogger.com