GRE costs
I was part of a discussion some months ago about helping foreign students with the costs of taking a GRE test and application fees for graduate college. Because of the costs, some argued that the GRE requirement for application and admissions should be either optional or completely eliminated. I argued that the GRE, though limited as a predictor of graduate school success was still useful and that it is perhaps the only measure that would be common across all applicants, and is, therefore, valuable for comparing applicants who are competing for a finite number of full-ride tuition scholarships and assistantships. One person (a very nice and well-intentioned individual) argued that the GRE requirement was unfair because some of us did not understand how poor other countries are and that, for instance, the cost of taking the GRE in her country was the equivalent of one month of her father's professorship salary. Impressive rhetoric. But then I thought about this. I have travel