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Geo1993

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  1. Does anyone have any opinions on University of Kansas vs. University of Utah?
  2. Since I attended UT is it reasonable to assume I wasn't invited to prospective student weekend because it would be unnecessary for me? I last talked to my POI in person 3 weeks ago and he said he wanted to work with me and that I should be admitted. However I haven't heard anything since then.
  3. Does anyone know if the University reviews their applications in any certain order? Yesterday one of my friends got accepted to work with the same adviser I applied to at that school. He told me he was looking at taking 1 or 2 masters students. When I talked to one of the people who wrote my rec letters a couple of weeks ago they said they heard from this POI that I was likely to get accepted. It appears that this school has only sent out a few acceptances yet from what I can tell based on the activity of this board. Do I have anything to worry about yet?
  4. I used Cracking the GRE with 4 Practice Tests, 2016 Edition (Graduate School Test Preparation) and the Manhattan review flash cards. I also borrowed one of my friend's Manhattan review material for a bit and found it very helpful.
  5. I was in this situation when I applied for grad school last year. I think it's easy to be complacent with average GRE scores and hope that other aspects of your application will shine through. Although it may not seem like it, it is very important to study for the GRE. In a way the GRE doesn't seem to test how smart you are, rather, it tests to see if you know all of it's tricks. Since the GRE only tests material that you would learn up until high school they are purposely try to trick you. In fact, they will do anything in their power to try and trick you and try to get you to answer in correctly. Put in the time and learn vocab and learn all of their tricks. The more you understand how the test writers are trying to trick you. The better you will do. I took the GRE last year and this year. Last year I didn't put the time into studying and it showed. This year I took it much more seriously 2014 Verbal: 153 (59 percentile) 2014 Quantitative: 156 (64 percentile) 2014 Writing:4.0 (56 percentile) 2015 Verbal: 157 (74 percentile) 2015 Quantitative: 161 (80 percentile) 2015 Writing: 5.0 (93 percentile)
  6. For those worrying about UT I wouldn't worry too much. My POI at UT said he was going to accept me when I visited with them two weeks ago. He said he wasn't sure when official acceptances would go out, but he said that he would imagine around mid February.
  7. Does anyone know anything about CSM? It's been a while since I've heard from my advisers. I've yet to be rejected, but I've also seen a lot of acceptances.
  8. I heard from my POI at UT this week. He has been running behind and said that he had to inform the school of his descisions by Friday. He said he would let me know if I'm accepted sometime soon. Crossing my fingers.
  9. So I know at most schools they give you until Mid April for you to decide on acceptance. If a lot of students decide to go elsewhere do they send out another round of acceptances after that? Does anyone have a good understanding of how it all works?
  10. I go to UT Austin (undergrad) and our career fair was in September. I got my offer for my internship in the first week of October. I'm pretty sure most/all offers went out by mid October. I imagine if there are any oil and gas opportunities left for this summer they are extremely limited.
  11. I am fortunate enough to have gotten an internship with an O&G company this summer.
  12. I likewise have been in touch with my adviser at UT. He said he hasn't made decisions yet and would be making his decisions soon, perhaps by the end of the week. Not all hope is lost yet.
  13. Still have heard absolutely nothing from all 5 schools I applied to.
  14. Have any of them responded? If so, what have they been saying?
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