ednerd87

I'm in! Totally freaked out! Got into TIE and still screaming!

Hey everybody! Über late to this thread, so I'm going to have to play the "better late than never" card. I'm applying to the HGSE TIE program, and now battling a stomach of nerves between here and "late March." Application was sumbmitted a long time ago, so now it's just the FinAid app (which arrived late last week) and then...more waiting. Stats below...here's to hoping there is hope... GRE Score (Revised): V 159 (81st percentile), Q 150 (40th percentile. - shameful, but I'm told this element is considered the least of the three by HGSE staff) AWA: 5.5 (98th percentile - hope this balances math and mediocre undergrad GPA) GPA: 3.421(graduated with dual bachelors degrees, so hopefully that rigor will be considered with a lower GPA) Work Experience: 2.5 years teaching in urban schools, spent time in China delivering professional development (Xi'an, Chongqing, and Beijing), on an Executive Board of Directors for a non-prof (serving about 200,000 students worldwide), founded a camp-based non-prof working with YMCA for students across TX, former entertainer/performer for Disney Cruise Lines and Radio Disney, currently work for the largest publishing company (as an Account Manager) in the K-12 division (I manage the accounts of about 100 TX school districts with regards to their curriculum, technology integration, intervention, PD, entitlement funding from the state and federal government, etc,). Undergrad Institution (Public, Private, Ivy, etc..): Public Research Experience: Just undergrad requirements for EdPsych, etc. Published: Wrote curriculum used by non-profs in TX and in China Applying for PhD or Masters: Masters, 2015. Program: Technology, Innovation and Education. What Other Schools Are You Applying To: Stanford, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins LORs: Hope they are strong (one from a Harvard Law School grad who supervised me in non-prof work, one from director of international non-prof who appointed me to exec board of directors, and one from a school administrator I worked with) SOP: Effective, I hope. Had a current student at HGSE read it and provide feedback. Feel free to offer input! Good luck to all those applying!