you can cancel the test and retake. the score won't report.

560v/800m is a respectable score. 600 may be a suggestion for some schools but not for most. it's more important that you have a solid portfolio.

where are you applying?

Thank you so much for the responses, I cannot cancel the score now because I have chosen to see it.
My top choices are MIT and SciArc (I know the two are quite different but I like them both). Some of my friends told me that GRE would be important especially when they compare applicants of similar qualifications and when it comes to fin aid/ scholarship. I have a GPA of 3.94 and my portfolio is mostly fine art (because I major in Studio Art), applying to MArch I. I don't really know if it would help me but I major in Math too. Can the GPA and the fact that I’m not a native speaker make up for that V score?

I don't think the GRE is that big of a deal at SCI-Arc. They only started requiring it a few years ago. Portfolio and your letter of intent are the key- spend your time working on that rather than retaking the GRE.

Perfect score on the math section?

If you dont get in, your GRE wont be to blame...

Portfolio, I feel, is more important. A kickass portfolio can overcome a shoddy GRE, but a great GRE cannot overcome a shoddy portfolio.

know someone who scored about the same; now at the GSD

UR FINE. STOP BEING PARANOID.

Thank you so much everybody. I think I can't do much about it now, so I will just move on and try my best with the portfolio and other parts of the application. I hope this won't be disastrous.

Yeah don't sweat it.

I bombed the hell out of the GRE - walked out of that testing center truly feeling like a dumbass. But little did I know at that time that it was not that big of a deal -- it's a "just for the record" kind of thing for the graduate school admissions committee.

I still got into quite a few good schools. None of the schools I got rejected from said it was because of the GRE either.

You'll be fine.

comehome, focus now strictly on the portfolio and make it awesome. search the threads here for some good folio examples. It will really help you.

Sounds about average in my class, and we considered a top tier school. We also had a good laugh about our combined college GPA, which weighed in around 3.0 with about half sitting around 2.7. Most of us had a few years away from school and had jobs relating to the field.

Like others have stated, your portfolio shows your creative potential. Your letters of recommendation can help describe your character and work ethic. I'd say those two make it or break it on admissions.

Oh, it makes me feel so much better! Yes, I have been working on my portfolio for a while and have been looking at portfolios posted on here but some of them are not so relevant because mine is for someone without a background in architecture. Thank you again, archinect is so helpful.

post ur portfolio...make it rain

Let me work more on the portfolio first...I don't have much confidence and if it gets butchered too much, I'm afraid I will lose that bit of courage to apply.

Comehome, it's all very subjective.... I understand you're just getting into this whole thing but you will quickly understand that what 'good' for some people is 'average' for others. When you are in architecture school you will need to expect to get "butchered" once in a while by someone critiquing your work. And don't let that discourage you because this is the way you will move on and grow -- if you dwell on it and take it personally you will never advance.

I understand if you don't wish to post your folio - but I do think you should see what others in your similar situation have posted so that you can get some good ideas of what you are up against.

One of my biggest pieces of advice to you when you go into arch school is that you understand that your professoris are not your only instructors but your colleages are as well -- learn from them and learn from them well!

Best of Luck.

Thank you med, that's so nice of you. I am trying really hard, but I also have a back-up plan for post graduation too. I try to be optimistic but still stay real. So are you still in arch school? Do you like it?

I got my M.Arch 4 years ago and have been working since.

I was there at one point and was in your same shoes! :) I though grad school was AWESOME. Some of my fondest memories in life!

Yeah, I don't want to be in these shoes again, my mood has been fluctuated like a crazy graph, I got excited then nervous then such and such. Anyway, it's great to hear that you enjoyed grad school that much :)

what do you guys think of 310(Verbal) and 630(Math) (i am an international student)? no one can beat that haha. Im working my ass off on the portfolio though, but seriously ...do you think even if i have a kick ass portfolio and personal statement ..would that still be an issue for M.Arch post-professional?

dsh, I believe this entire thread made it abundantly clear that they don't put too much weight on the GRE.

If you are an international student and English isn't your first language, I think they would understand why your verbals are low.

I suggest you set realistic expectations though. I've seen it here time and again people posting mediocre-to-downright unsatisfactory academcs (i.e. a 2.3 undergrad GPA and low GRE scores) expecting to get into GSD, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and such. And my argument has always been to them if they haven;t succeeded at the undergrad level they might want to ask themselves how they expect to succeed at the graduate school level which in many ways is much more intense.

@med ... that's a god d### very good answer...

3.4 gpa ...but yea i see what you're saying