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You may want to acquaint yourself with some basic social skills..so I wrote ''ill'' instead of ''i'll'', what kind of arsehole busts my chops for that? I'm sure you will be very successful as a psych phd HA. I am not publishing a book

ive been reading the manhattan books, and feel less confident. i also dont like how manhattan will go through a lesson, and then the check your skills questions will cover things not even taught. some topics manhattan treats as though you need a full lecture(simple stuff like coordinate geometry that takes 1 sec to exlain)..yet some of the harder stuff like odd/even probs they dont explain well. I sometimes wonder how they did what they did. btw isee a lot of spelling errors. either way ill take the test again and see how i do. btw i had an old friend from college ltalk to me about my scores today, and she said 162 v and 159 q are avg for the phd i want lol. she was optimistic though that my cores werent bad, but they are lol she also said 4.7 aw.

I TOOK THE test on the 5th or so and scores showed up the 17-18th..so about 12-13 days. i need to retake the test, so it worries me they take forever.

I can't just tell the professors not to write it after I already asked, and they started it sounds like.

I guess I will find out. Plus it's good to have the extra letters in case a different program requires more.

I meant they said that to me, not the letter. Im sure they wrote a lot of ositive things in my letters. They asked me to send lotsof documentation and remind them of my strong points because they want to give me the best letters;) I dont know hw you got that I feel entitled, because ive been saying the exact opposite. I was struggling being patient, due to uncertanty, not due to me wanting them to drop everything for me. I dont care when they write the letter, I even told them i dont need it until earliest november 15th. I just want to be sure I have teachers ready and willing.

good thing I dont care about about your opinion . To answer the post above yours, I don't have any research experience, but most of my professors loved me, and my work ethic. They all say I brought a very creative insight to class discussions. I ccalled that professor today, and had a talk with him, and he told me I would be getting a very supportive letter, and it elates him that one of his students is pursuing higher degree study. I really enjoyed that professor's class, and am happy he is really supportive. I've also decided to apply for the masters of psych at a different school. I think the masters will be way easier to get onto, although i'll still try for the phd at the school i want to go to.

i should have 4-5 letters from people. Ill send 3 the prompt, and give the other 2 the physical address.

yeah i need to send the prompt. I had another professor call me this morning, but I was sleeping and not feeling so good so my dad told him iwas in the shower and would call him back. I forgot to call him o.0 and just realized, so ill call him tomorrow and hope he understands.

I drove 40 mins not miles. I wouldnt say i lack knowledge, and if iwere able to get through the program without spending every day slaving for 15 hours in the library, as long as i scored well i would say i hopefully had good knowledge...but idk im not a grad student.

I guess ill retake the test, november 15ish. I was actually supposed to be halfway done with the manhattan books already....started reading them on monday, but i got a cold this week and decided to not study because i prob wouldnt absorb the info...so im starting back at them on monday. have 7 more to read..then have to make sure i know all of the magoosh cards that i had previously studied. What scares me, is i got pretty easy topics for aw and still got a 4....if i get harder subjects im in trouble.

scarf in the wind, thanks for the long post, and im glad everything worked out for you

it got me a 3.64 gpa, so I'll stick with it. distractions in the real world or the library are one thing, but if i'm paying money, and investing time into a test that is paramount to my future, and I'm also driving 40 minutes to take it at a PROFESSIONAL testing center, you better believe I will complain when shit like this happens.

I appreciate all the responses. I know you guys are looking out for me. it was not a minor distraction. She was spraying the tables around me the whole test, and im allergic to some cleaners..it was a HUGE distraction. I also said many times that I started studying in january for a month, then stopped, and restarted around a month or two ago, but I doubted that I studied updated material, and bought the manhattan books. Im not willing to do the ultimate sacrifice im not going to lie. I dont have a goal of a 170 verbal and quant. Im just going for middle tier or slightly better schools, and im also applying to masters programs. If i could get 161 verbal, 156 quant, that would be fine for me. I am definitley not waiting until next year. I think it's better to apply now, and see if iget in as opposed to waiting for next year. Most of my application is pretty strong. I have a sop that was proofread by a few professors and given standing ovations(not really but you know lol) I think going through all 8 manhattan books and doing the problems will def help raise my score a few points. also i wasn't asking for a rescore. Even though you guys may not think my scores were that great I was happy to get atleast 150 on both. I didn't want these scores canceled, but i wanted the opportunity to get a retest at no charge due to the many distractions. I don't think that is ubsurd. Not everyone has the same amount of desire to study endlessly. To be honest, i barely opened a book through undergrad(here comes the comments of how i won't survive in grad school, even though i was told i wouldn't survive in junior high, highschool, and college lol).

I wouldnt ssay i scored poorly, i just didnt do really well. I'm not upset that I accepted the scores, I'm upset that they won't allow me to do a retest at no cost to me. I feel that if I wasn't distracted I would have gotten atleast a 158/152 and with my other application points that would have been fine for me to take the risk and see if i got in.