Loric

I did not mean it to be taken too seriously, but I guess my point was to give a sample of schools that you are applying to - one or two higher ranked, X, and one or two lower ranked.
 
 
Loric, cut people some slack will you. No offense, but your tone sounds a bit accusatory. Anyone can have any set of reasons to consider which schools to apply, and can rank them in any way they like in their minds. If you have a suggestion for our friend here, I believe there are more amicable ways to drop your nuggets of wisdom.
 
Also, this issue is not nearly as important as much of the comments on this thread suggest.

I'll just point out that I've been accepted to more programs and offered more funding than you have, if you want to pull people's history into things as a means to belittle the advice they're giving. 
 
The goal here is getting in and getting funded, is it not? I offer sound advice for that. It is not presented in a manner to spare your feelings. 

I'll just point out that I've been accepted to more programs and offered more funding than you have, if you want to pull people's history into things as a means to belittle the advice they're giving. 
 
The goal here is getting in and getting funded, is it not? I offer sound advice for that. It is not presented in a manner to spare your feelings. 

...except for the answer to the question I came here asking, but no worries, I'll just make a wild and crazy guess. It was a pretty simple question, which definitely didn't require that extra special paragraph on "reframing" based just upon some pretty out-there assumptions.
 

Somehow I don't think it would be appropriate to mention *submitted a manuscript that is not directly connected to coursework to open call for submissions* in my CV. I'm also developing an exhibition in partnership with a major artist, but don't think that would be appropriate to mention in my CV either as it (at the moment) is entirely up in the air with no funding or established partners/institutions. Maybe I am alone in this, but I feel listing things in my CV as 'potential' achievements when they have a 90% chance of not coming to fruition would be misleading.
 
Glad to know it wouldn't seem inappropriate to send my POI a note about it.
 
The application material.. is handled.. at the department.. level, and that.. is where.. my material.. currently.. resides.. according to.. the online application.. which says.. it has moved from admissions to my department's review.. (and these are the only people listed in the 'administrative' section of the department's 'faculty and staff page')
 
In any case, thanks for the response, ellipses.

I just got notice of a paper I submitted being accepted for publication (!!!), and of course want to update my CV, but the deadline for one of my MA applications has already passed and I've submitted everything. I'm not quite sure who to contact about this, so my questions are:
 
1) Out of these assorted titles, who should I email asking to submit a revised CV:
-Graduate program director for my department (also a core faculty member)
-Department coordinator
-Department assistant (I'm guessing this one)
2) Do you think they would even accept a revised cv, it being after the deadline and all?
3) And if not...would it be appropriate to mention it in an email to a possible POI (who is on the admissions committee) who I've been in extensive contact with? Bear in mind it won't be published until May.
 
Many thanks!

None of the above.
 
You need the person in the admissions office who actually handles your paperwork if you're serious about updating your CV. Is it really worth the hassle though..?
 
It's fine to mention it in an email to the POI if you're on conversational terms. Just be like "Hey! I just found out my paper will be published if you're interested in giving it a look!" sort of thing.
 
I think some reframing is in order.. this alone isn't going to sink/save you, it is past the deadline and no one expects your life to stop when you submit the app until they make a decision, and you should have mentioned work on something like this.. that would lead to eventual publication.. in your CV already. It may have happened sooner than you expected, but you should have been mentioning the work all along as a thing you were doing. Keep that in mind for the other apps.

Yeah.. work you did outside of class that's publication ready is misleading to mention..
 
Suit yourself, but if anything, ask why you're asking random people for opinions and guidance you don't want since you already have the answers.

I have nothing but contempt for weakness. I suggest for your sake you adopt the same outlook.

I fail to see how a degree that let you make all your decisions at home at your own pace while hiding under a security blanket, sipping herbal tea, and sniffing sachets of lavender benefitted you at all in becoming a professional of anything.
 
Maybe a professional cat hoarder.
 
In the other thread people are saying the idea of being medicated to get past the stress/anxiety isn't right. Well then what is? Either it's clinical and needs treatments or someone is just whining an awful lot over something they need to cowboy up and get over.
 
The inability to get over it says, to me, that you don't have what it takes to make it in grad school.

I have nothing but contempt for weakness. I suggest for your sake you adopt the same outlook.

You actually have them ranked in a strict order already for yourself..? Have you even set foot on these campuses?

Then my question would be why you're going through with all these applications and why they're on your "final" list in the first place. Schools can tell when you're just applying for the sake of applying. They do not look kindly on it. 

Find him and staple it to his forehead!

I have nothing but contempt for weakness. I suggest for your sake you adopt the same outlook.

They are not supposed to care.. same with anything that indicates your race, gender, income level, etc... but it doesnt mean that they dont.

Stop putting % after the number.. that's not how the English works. It's "98th percentile."

It's a reordering of clauses. I do it all the time - and some people think I can't write. It's a habit of certain folks..
 
At the same time, I've lived off royalties for the books i've written. It's a matter of what people are willing to accept and what their exposure to the language is. If they're entirely rigid, formal, and not well read they will have trouble with such a sentence. It's not a typical or easy sentence. It's not wrong, it's not what people expect.
 
A story I like to tell in such situations.. way back in my AP Lit class in high school the students had to read and edit each other's essays. The valedictorian was reading my paper, me the barely-a C avg student who slept through class but never got less than an A on anything I wrote. She took offense to my sentence structure. We argued. She walked it up to the teacher, certain I was going to be told to change my wording.
 
My teacher looked it over and said.. "What's the problem?" The valedictorian became so indignant and tried to express all the grammatical reasons the sentence was flawed.
 
The teacher lowered her glasses, look at the paper once more, and replied.. "If it's good enough for Mr. Thoreau, it's good enough for Mr. Loric."
 
And jaw agape, that was the end of the valedictorian's edit of my paper. The teacher wrote A+ on it and handed it back to her. "You could learn something you know.."

A) It's not an entrance exam. Many schools and programs don't even ask for or require a GRE score. It is not a requirement for graduate study.
 
What college/university didn't have multiple choice scantron tests for most midterms and finals? What was it, free response interpretive dance? Did you have to tell them what you "felt" the answer was while sitting in a purity circle? Hippies.
 
C) A drop in score that is signifigant between the practice and real test just means the practice system you were using was inadequate, not that the real GRE got harder, more difficult, or changed in any way.
 
D) It doesn't make/break an application at any school that looks at your record wholistically. There are cutoffs at many schools, that's true, but even what most people are ranting is a "poor" score on here is above that cutoff.
 
Some people wont get into a graduate program for reasons entirely unrelated to the GRE, GPA, letters of rec, etc.. but you can be sure that's the first place they'll place the blame. If you can't handle a basic test without a complete freakout how do you expect to handle the stress of a graduate program?
 
I was in graduate school previously.
 
I had a day where I didn't sleep in a few days, hadn't eaten, hadn't showered, and had a cluster headache (google it, it hurts). I went to my professor who was 20+ minutes late for class - she was in her office just chatting with another student - and told her I was going home, it was a "work" day and I'd make up my work on the project well before the deadline. She agreed, but the next day she said in an advising meeting that I had "ambushed" her and I wasn't being a good student by asking to miss a class and then going home. That I wasn't taking my responsibilities seriously. She threatened to pull my funding for my next few projects because she said I was being so irresponsible.
 
That's the sort of real nonsense stress you'll have to deal with. This test is nothing.

Yes, test anxiety is a legit thing.
 
On the other hand.. you're applying to grad school. You have gotten through high school which is wrought with standardized tests by getting good enough grades and scores (on standardized tests, no less) in order to get into college.
 
Then in college you almost certainly, at the bare minimum, faced some standardized tests at the midpoint and end of every semester for 4 years.
 
That's a lot of tests. You'd think there'd be some coping skills developed by now. You had to have done halfway decent on these tests to be realistically considering graduate school.
 
So what's going on with this forum and the apparent mass freakout of "omg! test anxiety!!!!!!" self fullfilling prophecy?
 
I have this feeling that if there was less emphasis on people's test anxiety as an excuse for a poor score, there'd be more focus on getting better at taking the test... so you don't have to take it for a 27th time.

I don't even know what R1 means..
 
I do know that Purdue really dislikes it when you misspell their name as if they produced chicken. Had an adminstrator write me a very terse email once when I wrote a story about one of his grads taking over a position at a major company. On my own little obscure blog.
 
Ok.. so.. let's rank this!
 
Flyover State Schools:
U of Tennessee U of Nebraska U of Oregon Somethings that Sounds Overly Religious:
Southern Methodist U Chicken People:
Perdue Places Named After Superhero Men:
Kent State Wayne State Hippies:
U of Colorado Boulder Other:
South Carolina U U of Washington Rochester There, whoo.. that was some tough ranking but I think it'll help you pick the right school.

I fail to see how a degree that let you make all your decisions at home at your own pace while hiding under a security blanket, sipping herbal tea, and sniffing sachets of lavender benefitted you at all in becoming a professional of anything.
 
Maybe a professional cat hoarder.
 
In the other thread people are saying the idea of being medicated to get past the stress/anxiety isn't right. Well then what is? Either it's clinical and needs treatments or someone is just whining an awful lot over something they need to cowboy up and get over.
 
The inability to get over it says, to me, that you don't have what it takes to make it in grad school.

And no one is doing them any favors by setting a precedent that it is acceptable to blame your failure on "test anxiety" as if it was some uncontrollable variable that hit people out of the blue like a whammy and from which there is no recovery.
 
Allowing people to wallow,  or further making it seem acceptable, is typically the worst thing one can do for them.

Because I think way too many people here are placing the blame on something other than themselves for their performance. "It couldn't be helped!"
 
You just proved that it could. You got over it, they need to get over it too.
 
All the hand wringing and pacing in the world isn't going to dig you out of a rut, it's taking the steps to move forward that will. Placing the blame on anyone other than yourself falls distinctly in the hand wringing and pacing category.
 
Accept that you need to do something, that it CAN be helped, and that it is up to you to do something about it and you'll get a better score.