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    Flagstaff, AZ
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    2014 Spring
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    Philosophy

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  1. Kind of a ridiculous question, but do schools offer you T.A. ships/funding when they accept you (and you've applied for the T.A. ship), or do you have to plead with them? I got my first acceptance, but nothing indicated a T.A. ship. Thanks!
  2. One last thing: consider some meditation and visualization exercises. Someone turned me on to this a long time ago in a different context. I visualized a perfect verbal score again and again and wound up with a 168 on my second GRE try-- about 4 points higher than I was averaging on prep. You need to understand that you can get an outstanding score, and picture it as if it has already happened. The mind is super powerful. You can do it!
  3. Good question. It seems to me there's a big difference between making a factually accurate claim without citing numbers or sources and, on the other hand, just making up statistics. I'm not an ETS reader, but I know that if one of my community college students made up some random nonsense, I wouldn't be happy. If you can pull it off, more power to you, go for it-- but if the readers call b.s. it could be bad....
  4. I'd skip the courses; they don't teach anything that you can't get from books. Also, in terms of prep materials, I actually liked Barron's best. Others seem to teach to the middle...especially Kaplan and P.R.
  5. What prep materials are you using? I've found that Kaplan and Princeton Review, especially, tend to make the practice too easy. I had luck with Barron's (used hard copy books). Best of luck!
  6. Anyone know of good Bioethics programs? Most of the schools, like Johns Hopkins and Case Western Reserve, seem geared towards policy, and I'm into theory. Thanks!
  7. These were from 3 years ago, so they were 520 Q, and 650 V, with an writing score of 5.0. I guess I'm just being lazy, huh? Do you folks, or many folks, take courses to study for this, like Kaplan or Princeton review?
  8. Re: GRE's: my Verbal and Writing scores put me in the 91/93 percentiles respectively. My quantitative scores put me in the 18th percentile!! Yikes. Do folks think I should take the whole thing again, or just the quantitative part, or just hope that philosophy programs don't care too much about math? Thanks for your thoughts!
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