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I thought that was toefl's purpose.

In what world is 88th percentile low? The thing to remember is at that level you are a few points from perfect. That kind of score is not going to keep you out of any program.

That's kind of what I'm thinking, apply to PhD programs of interest and if it doesn't work look at some masters degree.

They're taking your average percentiles, but honestly hitting the bare minimum for the graduate college is not going to get you an admit.

I can understand that, but at the same time a PhD is academic and your technician job is vocational. A MS would also be academic and high performance on it can show you are of academic caliber to complete a PhD. It'ss very conceivable to me that somebody can be a successful technician but would have difficulty generating an independent research project. You have to give admissions committees a reason to pick you and take a chance on somebody who doesn't fit the profile of a typical successful student.

You may have to do a masters degree with that gpa. You may get lucky and get into a decent PhD program as your major gpa is fine and it sounds like your junior/senior gpa is fine as well. The publications may save your ass. I just don't see a top tier university saying yes. Now if you are able to do a masters degree and perform very well top tier may be doable again.

I'm not in your field but nobody else has commented so I will. Your gpa is very good and it sounds like your writing experience will be a positive addition. At least in my field the gre is more used to weed people out and actually doesn't seem to be that important. Either way your projected verbal score looks good. I can't speak to how your field views the quantitative score but I have a hard time seeing it as something important. I've at least had English professors with an embarrassingly poor grasp on math so it would strike me as bizarre for them to expect future scholars to be that skilled at it.

I imagine they will just send the scores for the test you take that day.

Fyi I used majortests to prepare for the quantitative section and it seemed comparable to what was on the actual test.but I do agree that you need to drastically increase your scores.

I think people overestimate the importance of gre scores

I've heard it's more of a function of current debt versus available credit meaning more available credit is good. But, requesting more lines of credit is a hit against your score.

If you pay off the balance right after you use the card you won't accrue interest, do if you think you can do this it may be worth it. The moment you carry over a balance is the moment where Target wins out and takes your money.

I figure that stuff can be sorted out during orientation and when the semester actually starts. The most I've done it's talk to professors about rotations.

The issue is that most graduate degrees have funded options even if they are more competitive. Also this is not like undergrad where your option is working fast food. Everyone applying to graduate school either has or will have a bachelor's degree and professional level jobs should be an option. A graduate degree primarily teaches people to be academics and this is not something where a loan makes good fiscal sense especially considering that graduate tuition is often double undergrad rates. Add into this that the academic job market is harsh if you can't get into a funded program you are not likely to get a tenure track job afterwards. If you are looking at a field where the pay outside of academia really is that high then by all means go for it, but that's pretty rare. Those trend to be professional degrees which are a very different beast.

I don't even see a Wikipedia page for it so no don't do it.

I don't think I'd take the job. The degree will make you more qualified if the job doesn't turn into a permanent position and the odds of that sounds strongly against you.in theory you could go to grad school later but you could also take a museum job later as well. I'd politely decline and try to maintain a good relationship with all parties involved.

With a sub 3.0 gpa you're going tho have to do something tho stand out and those gre scores aren't good enough, at least for a PhD. You may have to do a masters first and excel at it to have a chance at a PhD.

Email the department and ask them but I would assume once is enough.I'd be more concerned that it would make them hesitant to admit you as a PhD student if you're also applying for their masters degree.

I kind of assume both matter to some degree, but if you overall is a little low and your major is high it's probably better than the reverse. But I wouldn't worry because your overall looks fine.

I had to sign the offer letter and return it so maybe that's the contract?

That's okay I'm entering into a biomedical science program and I couldn't tell you the difference. I'd say look for programs which combine different bioscience programs and let you specialize after your first year. Got example Yale has this http://bbs.yale.edu/index.aspx I'm not necessarily saying you should apply to Yale but a lot of universities have similar things.

I just use uhaul and do it myself well I guess myself includes my wife and any friends we can buy with beer.

I am positive that a lot of people have done just that to pay off their loans.

MS programs at regional state universities may be a backup option to look into. They do have worse financial support than PhD programs so you may want to focus on instate programs.

You could try Baylor again because they said positive things about you. I'm legitimately surprised you didn't get in anywhere.