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could you add Musicology to the list? It's a tiny field, but extremely competitive -- all 4,000 or so of us in the entire USA want to get into Harvard or Princeton or Stanford, each of which accepts about 3 persons per year. I'd like to extrapolate from the %-accepted how many people actually apply.

Gerne! Ich war Redakteur und Technical Writer bzw Computerprogrammierer und Englischlehrer John

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Don't stress, as others have said. Take a LONG walk (bring plenty of water, I know it's probably still almost 100 degrees in Las Vegas), preferably with friends. Good luck.

Don't be (Sei nicht!) schadenfreudet (properly in German it would end in a "t")! Get a doctor's certificate and explain ! You may very well be able to get funding. I know for sure that G.W.U. is quite liberal about such things (also containing a major medical school) ... it's worth a shot.

The only ones I'm familiar with in any detail are GWU and American U (being a Washingtonian--and I actually am dating an American U law professor at the moment)---I think 1280-1340 is fine for those two universities---as to whether you'll be awarded funding, I have no idea---but you'll have no difficulty getting IN if you have a 3.5 GPA or better. John

A true scholar should never throw around numbers without the citations. I read that about two years ago, and I have no idea where I read it. Though: I vaguely remember the afternoon, cruising around "Ask.com" and "What is a good GRE score?" ... the scores they gave were quite LOW, even for the Ivies (low 600s), and I didn't believe them, so I poked around furhter. I'm really sorry I can't give you any more accurate info than that. In the end, the only real way to find out is to apply. Or call them. They might just tell you themselves. Again, I apologize, and I'll try to remember not to sound authoritative when in reality I am not. Humble apologies, John

Barron's (and Princeton Review's, and Kaplan's, and other test prep companies') test scores are almost always LOWER than what you would score on the real GRE. They (those commercial companies) have a strong vested interest in giving you a lower score: so that you'll sign up for a prep course with them. Trust Powerprep to give you a fairly close idea of what your real score is likely to be. Even then, flukey things can happen, such as getting a common word (Hi DarkBlueCola), and the analogy or antonym refers to the less common meaning of the word! I actually think your prior scores (610-610) are not bad, unless you plan to attend a top-20 or top-10 university, in which case 650-V and 700-Q would probably be good targets for international relations/journalism. Good luck. John

Hi S.F., Yes, basically, with a few exceptions, in the NOMINATIVE CASE In Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University loves to be referred to as "The Johns Hopkins University", and in the hallowed city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, I've often seen Harvard's ultraelite political science school referred to as "The John F. Kennedy School of ..." But in general, you are right. In the OBJECTIVE case, one usually DOES include "the." Ex: I earned an MA in Music from the University of Maryland in 1979. If if omit "the" above, it sounds very primitive and ugly. John

I took the GRE about 10 days ago. I had one question about standard deviation, and it was structured EXACTLY like one of the questions on POWERPREP. I.e., you do NOT have to calculate a standard deviation. You need to know what a greater or lesser standard deviation means in terms of the data set as a whole; or conversely, if the data set changes in some specified way, what effect does that change in the constituent data have on the standard deviation.

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Hi KitKat, Once again I must agree with newms ... consider this ... even I, a liberal arts guy who hasn't taken a math course since 1971 (no lie! look at my age in my profile) also squeaked a 670 once, and 690 another time .... if I can do that, then a serious scientist ought to be able to do better. Sorry to put it in what may appear to be harsh terms, but it's a very very competitive world you're trying to break into Good luck! John

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