Eclodemike

Hey! I'm reading some vitriolic assessments of the importance of vocab, and I'd say yes it is of great importance to do well on the verbal section of the test, but scrutinizing lists of 'top GRE words' and so forth is most likely going to be a waste of time. I'd recommend reading journal articles/books with a dictionary, and synonym games, or word games in general. No practice tests, had an app for my phone called 'Synonyms Quiz' which I played constantly even before thinking about the GRE because it's fun as hell, but did not really study for math much outside a few Khan Academy videos, and ended up, as a humanities guy (NO EXCUSE FOR Q! I just knew that it wouldn't be of as much importance to adcomms), pretty content with my scores (except AW because I was loathe to address the first prompt and wrote a terrible essay). 166V (96%), 155Q (69%), 4AW (54%) -e

Hi all! It's quieted down a bit, but I'm glad to see a lot of good things happening in this thread. Congratulations to everyone, ^music especially, you seem to be having a dream run of this! And kccur I concur, I'd be interested to hear back from a few more theory applicants. This is my first time around as a junior in undergrad, just looking to put my name out there and see if anyone bites. So far not so much luck, but while my professor who did it in the early 2000s (Oberlin to Eastman) seemed confident in the direct to PhD prospect, some cursory perusing of thegradcafe has shown it to be quite rare, so my expectations are managed. I get the sense this mid-march period could be the defining moment for a lot of people, and I wish everyone the very best! -e