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starrystarrynight

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    2013 Fall
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    anthropology

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  1. To those who have received Harvard's decision letter: could you identify the date on the letter? I am becoming paranoid as I will soon be moving out of the flat that I am living in. Plus, I am an international living somewhere across the Pacific and I get this feeling that it will take loooooooong time to reach anywhere near my place. Thanks in advance!
  2. I think pemdas is asking me... though I need your verbal score! Take my Quant score and gimme your verbal percentiles! aaaaahhhh You know what, I think your percentile's rather nice if you're an international applicant w/ English as a second language. I majored anthropology which involved no mathematics whatsoever throughout my undergraduate years. To be honest with, my friends and I do find quantitative section rather easy. It's just the language. I do handle English language better than most of my friends and it made my quant score stand out among theirs. (but my verbal and AWA score.... *sigh*) I guess I should be thanking the math curriculum provided by my country up till high school...? I guess learning the basic concepts and ideas are the most important thing in GRE quant section. I think they do not try that hard to mislead people into wrong answers. Well, at least not at the quant section. I felt that they put a lot of emphasis on the idea of ratio so make sure you are confident about it, though I don't see why should anyone have fundamental problems with GRE questions on ratios. Don't get too complicated while you thinking, and do not panic. They usually do not make things that obnoxious. For me, practice questions (in order to get used to their problems) and reviewing basic stuffs at the last minute did help. (especially the English terminologies!)
  3. Thanks for the comment! I'll keep that in mind. I just hope they won't make strange deduction from the wide gap between my verbal and quant scores... You're right, I should have had posted percentiles instead. Verbal was somewhere around 75% (I can't recall the exact figure...) and the writing was like 49%. Half the people around me is advising me to re-take GRE, while the other half says forget GRE and move on to SOP/PS. The programs I'm planning to apply for do put some emphasis on verbal/qualitative (dunno what 'qualitative' is supposed to mean, though..) parts in GRE... hmmm... Thanks for your comment, though. I should really be working on my SOP/PS, as you said. Every word really does help a lot.
  4. @Instigate I'm pretty sure I can boost up by verbal scores by the next exam for I think I lost major points at the vocabulary parts rather than the reading parts anyway. Besides it was several points lower than the prep score... I was just hesitant because it does take a lot of time and efforts(plus money!) and deadline seems to be coming up at any moment. I might as well give it another try, though. Thanks for the reply! I guess the word stellar is the problem of the day here unless you get 120 for TOEFL haha Thanks!
  5. Hi, I've checked my GRE score online today and I'm really confused whether I should re-take the exam or not. V158 Q169 AWA 4.0 (V570 Q800 for old GRE) I'm planning to apply for Ph.D programs in socio-cultural anthropology this fall, which I guess hardly emphasize Quant scores at all. I'm even wishing that some miracle would occur and my Verbal and Quant score would exchange themselves.... I know it is below average among applicants of the top universities. My percentiles seem horrible, especially for AWA which doesn't even make up to 50%. It's more disappointing because I was expecting to get at least 160 for the verbal section. Then again, I'm an international applicant and I thought the committee would put some consideration to that... What would you recommend? Should I re-take the exam or should I just get over it and focus on my SOPs and writing samples instead? Furthermore, has anyone seen statistics or information regarding international applicants? My friends and I are suffering from lack of information. Replies would really help a lot! Thanks!
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