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for the subject test can you skip questions and have them not count? so if i skip 10 questions and get 3 wrong does it becomes......out of 205 instead of 215 adn then x 3 (1/4) for the 3 i got wrong? so i could skip like 20 questions and have it not be held against me? that seems so strange lol

did it work? my supervisor told me hes not a fan of childhood dreams (isn't that terrible!) haha

this is so depressing...... i hate you highs chool math. and words that make me wonder how english is my 1st language.

i think 700 is good since its out of 800 like on the normal gre a 700 is good i keep scoring 600 on the practices theres so much on perception!

ahh im retaking mine very soon itook it the end of august and did a practice today cuz i havent studied and did alot better theni did on the past test/ past practices.......my verbal score is so all over the place its annoying.

= ) i bet thats it!

hmm....when i did my first draft i wanted my sop to focus on my strengths and how all my research experience which doesn't appear that relevant to what i wanna do actually ties in, etc but now ......i have answers to i guess 'justify' my poor gre scores/ bad first year but i don't want my sop the only place i have to really show my passion in the subject to be half riddled with excuses, should i put in justifications for weakness inmy application or just let me sop shine my strengths?

hahaha that does suck also sucks is after you meet with a prof and they don't reply to your msg thanking htem for the meeting/ how interested in their stuff you are after themeeting perhaps a bad impression?

haha i definitely panic before i press send, make sure you spell their name right! and i also send profs emails at like.....2am and such......idon't think they look at the time haha and really im in another country so maybe they think its a time difference?

thanks! actually, i didn't get ot ask very many questions, which was nice because when ive met with supervisors before it was more like an interview i was not prepared for this time it was very casual, which i have mixed feelings about haha

so, im going to meet with some potential supervisors sooon, does anyone have any experience with this? im excited, though i don't want to just come off as a big fan of their work, i want to make a decent impression, how do you do this! advice?

i didn't, i thought i could do research assistantships but that isn't considered one so i just talked about it and my thesis in my SOP

ive talked to my supervisor about this alot and hes said you can't gurantee anything he's known people with perfect gpas get rejected from every school theyve applied to, your best bet is to find a prof whose into you and will want to work for you because grades/ gpa can get your foot in the door but its what you can offer a prof in their lab that will do the rest, research experience in the area you want to do would help alot (reserach + counseling ish worikng with people)

i agree!! while retaking gre, taking the subject test +applying for canadian us and Uk scholarships --> my letter writers are going to hate me doing a full courseload + honours seminar ontop of a thesis + RA position & applying to schools with very different programs (ie. cannot just use same SOP for all) i am trying to do it all as early as possible! im asking for reference letters now doing 1 school at a time so you don't get the requirements mixed i honestly hope SOPs get easier with practice my 1st one took weeks to write

i know university of calgary (or alberta) has a guy looking at terror managment if your into canadian schools

i have zero.... it doesn't bother me or anything at least rihgt now....

why do you have to address it?

omg their so hard to write i just finished a draft for one i feel like i didn't get to include have the stuff i wanted i just tried to gear it to the profs at the school

never go in assuming youll geta low score! if you're going for english i heard you just have to do well on the verbal, which i assume you would since you read alot anyways. I got a low gre score and i contacted a prof at cornell and he said they don't have gre cutoffs but want the rest of your application to be strong. im in the same boat as an international student looking for back up schools, or clinical psyc programs that are easier to get into, apply for scholarships too

i know clinical programs are insane to get into everywhere, but im not from the states so i only thought ivey league schools were hard to get into haha, thats why i was confused when i was lookin at virginia, even duke since i had never heard of them.

is virginia generally a very hard school to get into? i was looking there or cornell then i saw that you needed high 600s for social psyc at viringia on gres =/

where you lookin at vivian zayas at cornell? if not then you should!

you could email profs in psyc departments at nearby schools at are in line with your interests and explain to them your tools/ situation but as a psyc major undergrad i found it trouble getting useful research experience at my school for some reason it was mostly just data entry, i got all my research experience at near by hospitals which allowed me to participate more in reserach and covering more areas from reserachign to lit reviews to data collectiona nd scale construction also had oppurtunities to particpate in data write up for studies.

well i had a 440 v and 580q and im retaking it for the verbal, i wanted it to be at least mid to high 500s. when i talked to my gre prep teacher he said anything in the 400s is bad, 500s are average and 600 and up are competitive. guess it just depends on how compeittive you want to be but if you have the oppurtunity to bring it up then why not

http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/gradapp/stmtpurpose.htm http://www.cs.umd.edu/Grad/sop.html i just see it as a cover letter, your job is to be a grad student so sell yourself in a way......that shows off all your good assests reserach expreince ideas why you want to go to grad school at that particular school profs that overlap your interests etc