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  1. justsomeguy75
    Curious to know if other people are in this situation.
  2. justsomeguy75
    I am still very undecided but I might turn down the Offer at Harris so don't lose hope.
  3. justsomeguy75
    Hahaha ... I had the same feeling ...
  4. justsomeguy75
    Exactly in the same situation (minus the scholarships) ... I really feel like Harris will provide me with the intellectual/academic challenge I am looking for ... SIPA's advantage is the location, the network (I assume?), and paradoxically the reputation (at least internationally). When I tell my friends about my acceptance by these two Universities needless to say Chicago is overshadowed by Columbia.
  5. justsomeguy75
    I'm in .... too bad my recommender was late for the scholarship consideration deadline ... ugh
  6. justsomeguy75
    Also admitted :-)
  7. justsomeguy75
    what's the password?
  8. justsomeguy75
    It would make no sense for them to consider your Quantitative Score if your field is in no way related to mathematics. Your Verbal is Ivy Competitive and your AWA is simply ... 99th percentile. (PS: scoring not a single answer correctly on Q is in a way an achievement in itself too ... lolzzzzzzzzzzzzz).
  9. justsomeguy75
    Hello, I believe the reply you quoted from NPRjunkie was not for me but for ''taidan'' :-) The vast majority of people told me I have my chances, considering the service you are providing, I would be happy if you could assess my chances just by quickly looking at my post page 2. Best
  10. justsomeguy75
    Would be happy to read it as well (applying to Public Policy)
  11. justsomeguy75
    Very generous initiative! Have you encountered many people with 1 year or less of professional experience getting successfully in?
  12. justsomeguy75
    My exam is tomorrow as well, I am not really freaking out though but I am kind of daunted by AWA somehow ... none of those damn subjects seem inspiring.
  13. justsomeguy75
    I mean 4.5 is not a bad score as far as I know, is it? 5 would've been better but 4.5 is like 78th percentile, which is a respectable score in my opinion. You should not worry about it. On the other hand, considering the GRE's average mathematic level, I would say that 152Q is quite low (or average) ... but I don't know how much the schools you are aiming for emphasize on quantitative. Your verbal is better than average (70%) but not exceptional either. If you want be safe and not worry about your GRE score then try to aim at least for 161Q, 159V and 4.5-5AWA.
  14. justsomeguy75
    And I assume that it is the reason why they claim the ability to improve people's score so drastically.
  15. justsomeguy75
    Magoosh is perfect and it's online (they have 581Q and 521V questions), and each question comes with a video that explains how to solve the question. The only issue is that the hard/very hard questions are most of the time out of the scope of the difficulty of the real GRE.
  16. justsomeguy75
    Thank you :-)
  17. justsomeguy75
    No no I know, I am working with Magoosh for three weeks, all the videos are awesome, but I must say I don't really know what to do since I finished all their vids .. I am practicing just maths and I decided to focus on verbal the last week (since it's V is directly correlated to the words you know - at least for half of the exam) - my question is; are the Magoosh wordlists enough ? Because I am a bit confounded by all those different lists and I would like to focus on only one.
  18. justsomeguy75
    Is Magoosh enough?
  19. justsomeguy75
    That's the tricky thing about the GRE there is no official list ... and your verbal score in a way depends on you and your luck ... I am taking it in 2 weeks and on PowerPrep I get 159V on the 1st test and 153V on the 2nd ... go figure.
  20. justsomeguy75
    The way I personally did was to work non-stop a month and take PowerPrep each wednesday of the week to see how I improved -- it was very very helpful. The thing is that there is only 2 tests and I doubt very much that they are adaptive like during the real GRE.
  21. justsomeguy75
    Your Quantitative score is very low, Verbal is satisfactory for the best programs though. AWA is OK - but then, as you know they have a holistic approach to your application (unless they have cut-off GRE scores, which I have no information regarding those schools). (edit) PS: You should definitely retake it :-) Improving Quant is easier than improving Verbal, you can do it. And that would be an occasion to improve your AWA - in all cases with the new Select-Score Option, they will only see the results of your best GRE.
  22. justsomeguy75
    I know that those scores would not bar you admittance from the Ivy League in the context of a Master degree (if you have a great profile), but for a PhD in these fields it could indeed be considered as insufficient. But it really depends on where you want to apply.
  23. justsomeguy75
    Yep I was considering SAIS Bologna as well (no need for the GRE hehe..)
  24. justsomeguy75
    I would advise a third letter from a practitioner - MPPs are professional degrees after all. Your GRE should be fine, it is just one aspect of your application - and imho, it is far from being the most important factor. What matters is, as you said, to be in the range of what they would expect. You seem to be competitive enough, I am pretty sure you will get into at least one of those programs.
  25. justsomeguy75
    I Agree ... I am applying to Harvard for instance and I feel very anxious about being ''just on time'' for my applications ...
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