Hi everyone!! I am from Mexico, and since I begin my undergraduate preparation, I decided that I wanted get a PhD in the USA. During this time, I worked extremelly hard to get an excellent GPA, I gave up my social life, my couple and even my family to get a good preparation in order to apply. After more than 5 years of excellent results in the university (I got a overall grade of 9.5/10, graduated with honors, good research experience, a TOEFL that I took twice, etc, etc. Good extracurricular activities, teacher assistance, scholarships, etc, etc.... Everything looks really great, until today: I took the GRE after 6 months of hard preparation, I even took a course, where I was always the best students (as in the 5 years of preparation), I work extremelly hard; but I got an extremelly low score: 148 in both sections. I am devastasted, I am even crying because I feel that 5 years of hardship, hard work, and dreams are down the drain. I left my life behing for this chance and now, a simple test destroys my entire career. I am even angry because everyone gets into grad schools, everyone took this **** exam even without preparation and get good scores, and everyone, except me, have good results in the exams. For that reason, I had to retake the TOEFL, because after more than 2 years of study for this exam, I got, 99 and I needed 100, until the second attempt, I got 103. You may wonder which universities I wanted to apply; well, I was assuming that my hard work of 5 years and my good CV would allow me to apply to Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, JHU, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, UCLA, etc. But with these GRE scores, I am thinking to give up all hope, cry and blame myself for my stupidity and my lack of intelligence. What shoul I do???... Do I have to give up and find another way to get into research??? By the way, I studies psychology and Neuroscience, and I was planning to apply to a Neuroscience Program. Thanks everyone!!!