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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.

I also am scared I can't improve. What if I put more effort in and do worse...I mean I was under the impression 156/150 was avg for a master's degree. I am sorry about yur test as well, I would be outraged if that happened.

I did study for this test, maybe not full effort, but i did study...and im fed up with the test center. I am filing a small claims case.

im pretty fed up with ets..they said they are not going to give me a free retest. They said because I chose to not cancel the scores I accepted my fate. that is BS. I chose to accept my scores because I felt in spite of the distractions I still did ok. I also paid money for the test, and studied so no way was I jsut going to cancel, especially when i doubt any resolution would have come from it...then i would have been totally fucked. I'm not interested in the 5 pound book...i have enough to read with the 8 manhattan books, and I also have tons of problems in there to do, and it's too much as it is. I feel hopeless aboutt he testing center...and like it will be a waste to take it again even at a new one. I also feel like I pissed ets off and ill get a super hard test =(. Im going to apply to a masters program in addition to the phd. I have a strong SOP, and 5 letters of reccomendation, as well as a 3.64 gpa, which while not top notch is still alright imo.

scores finally showed up. The 156 verbal and 150 quant were as expected, but I got a 4.0 AW.....maybe I should give grad school a second thought.....and no im not a bad test taker im actually an AMAZING test taker..so maybe just incompetent...although in my defense, the test employee distracted me, but she didnt really distract me that much on my aw section just a little...msotly on the other section...oh well. I guess Ill become a janitor.

yeah bit then there are the people who are good at tests but just cant grasp the material. afterall the test was ceated to test at least a basic degree

what's strange is that one of the professors emailed me the letter he wrote, although i told him ill be sending him a prompt from the application next month and he agreed to post it there. I more so meant ask them to see the eltter in a year or so.

i updated my application to waive my right. i did a lot of eesearch on it, and seems this an important part of the application process. It shows that you have trust in people and also gives more weight to your reccomendations because it shows that the professors can write freely without worrying about me seeing it If i ever want to see the reccomendations, what is a polite way to ask the professors? i dont want to be nosy?

if you are a native speaker and don't do well on the gre, does that mean you aren't fit ?

just got a reply from one of the teachers iemailed yesterday. she said this(only an excerpt of full message) ''Usually, schools have a link where they want the letter uploaded. Incidentally, they usually ask you to waive your right to see the letter. You don't have to, but it looks better if you do.'' Is it true that I should waive my right? Right now on my application I checked NOT to waive my right. Is she only saying this bc she is giving me a bad review?

Thought you were an english major (I'm only messing, I'm just bored at 3am with a cold, and looking for something to do ha).