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newtothegame, I would not rest your mind on the notion that admissions committees will give you a "mulligan." You have little hope of being admitted to a top 10 program with that quantitative score. You need to buckle down and retake it.

None too pleased..?

I think you waste your time. What will be amusing is when SOOT gets relegated to Penn State - Altoona after graduating (that is, if she ever gets admitted to a program that confers the appropriate name/geographic cachet).

Yes, it is a gate-keeping mechanism for you as a theorist. Although I was not questioned on the finer points of German Idealism.

Hardly a question, isn't it? I think the hard truth is that scores won't get you in, but can keep you out. ETA: (Especially in tough years, which this year was).

Well someoneouthere, I bookmarked this thread in the hope of revisiting it when the application process was over. Did you get into any top 5, top 6 schools with sub-700 scores?

A great push-back against Debbie Downers like Realist in today's Chronicle. http://chronicle.com/article/Neither-a-Trap-Nor-a-Lie/64535/

What are you going to do now?

Good on you. You made it further than me. I fired off a number of (admittedly angry) calls, demanding a refund of my application fee for the mistreatment/lack of communication I've received. So far, they are not budging. I am starting to suspect that this is a racket on par with penny auctions.

But natofone, do you think it is wrong for them to tell applicants to call up people who they know have no clue what is going on. Further, do you think it is wrong for them to, as in someoneouthere's case, apparently review applications and make decisions before all the files are present and accounted for. And here you are, making excuses. What the program did was perfectly fine. Like the 1942 Japanese American internment was "fine", because it was legal. Like the relocation of the Cherokee. Like Jim Crow. You should take a moral stance against this dereliction.

As your application was likely not reviewed, it may be wise to go over the heads of the department and ask the graduate school directly for a formal refund of the application fee. My experience with people in NYC is that you have to be fairly demanding with them or they brush you off.

I looked up this guy. His name is "Suddenly Paranoid" and he has acceptances from every program he applied to, including each Ivy he applied to. Take it from a sometime troll -- of course he is pulling everyone's chain! He's in at all those programs, and District 9 will win Best Picture!

Yes, someone should claim it. I just popped in after I saw it on the results page.

UChicago is out.