B. Blumenstrauss

Pot, you are desperately needing a group hug. I know this are hard times, I really know. Hopefully, some schools like Stanford are accepting persons with really low IQ, like me. God bless them!
And yes, you're blocked, little coward guy. End of story.
 
To the rest of this wonderful forum: please let me know if you find any of my posts offensive or rude. I really think that the "Haters gonna hate!" posts in the results page are disgusting, and I would hate to give that impression.

We aren't required to engage with you.

Well now that you mention it, I find your posts in general to be very juvenile.

So somebody has apparently owned up to that upburst. As if I would have known based on the GRE alone!

A confession: Unlike every other human ever, I am jealous when someone has failed to achieve a goal.

Perhaps instead of pyschoanalysis, a better idea would be to consider whether or not 160 is minimally acceptable for entrance to a Classics PhD. I would say not. Perhaps you disagree, but given the relatively modest study investment that can improve one's score, I think this not unreasonable. Given this consideration, there are perhaps non-meritorious factors at work.

I am not sure I should even bother replying to this, but I feel like this kind of message can exacerbate future applicants' anxiety for no valid reason and should be addressed fo their sake.
 
1) When they look at GRE scores, admission committees take into account whether or not the applicant is international. They do not expect an international applicant to perform as well as an American applicant for two reasons: English may not be their native language and they may not be used to standardized testing. 

2) All of the people I have talked to who are on admission committees have told me the same thing: a great GRE score will NOT get you in a program. As long as you are moderately above average in verbal and writing, they do not care how well you did on the test. The GRE is the least important criterion on their list. If, and only if, your score is abysmal (which is certainly not the case of the score your were commenting on), then it will raise a red flag, which may get you rejected. 

3) Yes, a verbal score of 160 is perfectly reasonable to gain a place in a top Classics PhD program. 

Please, stop attacking people you do not know. Even if what you were trying to say was correct, your tone is entirely out of place for this forum. 

 

Well, Melian I disagree with you. But at least you engaged me somewhat.

Much better than cartoons and memes and the old "hater/troll" chestnut.

There's a wanker on every forum I guess.

Pot, you are desperately needing a group hug. I know this are hard times, I really know. Hopefully, some schools like Stanford are accepting persons with really low IQ, like me. God bless them!
And yes, you're blocked, little coward guy. End of story.
 
To the rest of this wonderful forum: please let me know if you find any of my posts offensive or rude. I really think that the "Haters gonna hate!" posts in the results page are disgusting, and I would hate to give that impression.

Pot, you are desperately needing a group hug. I know this are hard times, I really know. Hopefully, some schools like Stanford are accepting persons with really low IQ, like me. God bless them!
And yes, you're blocked, little coward guy. End of story.
 
To the rest of this wonderful forum: please let me know if you find any of my posts offensive or rude. I really think that the "Haters gonna hate!" posts in the results page are disgusting, and I would hate to give that impression.

Pot, you are desperately needing a group hug. I know this are hard times, I really know. Hopefully, some schools like Stanford are accepting persons with really low IQ, like me. God bless them!
And yes, you're blocked, little coward guy. End of story.
 
To the rest of this wonderful forum: please let me know if you find any of my posts offensive or rude. I really think that the "Haters gonna hate!" posts in the results page are disgusting, and I would hate to give that impression.

Pot, you are desperately needing a group hug. I know this are hard times, I really know. Hopefully, some schools like Stanford are accepting persons with really low IQ, like me. God bless them!
And yes, you're blocked, little coward guy. End of story.
 
To the rest of this wonderful forum: please let me know if you find any of my posts offensive or rude. I really think that the "Haters gonna hate!" posts in the results page are disgusting, and I would hate to give that impression.

Not "whatever." It should be well within the prospect of horizons for a so-called Classicist to score above at least the 90th percentile verbal. If one cannot leap over a rather modest 160, perhaps the blame is in oneself.

"Numerous factors" : chief among them, linguistic and verbal comprrehension. But this is probably too much to ask for. "Arguably" it is the easiest (and most objective) of the elements in an application to improve oneself in.

Also the most pointless thing to spend one's time on, I imagine. Quibbling over a few percentile points is meaningless (90th versus, what, 96th??). The exam is a poor indicator of one's potential for creative scholarly work anyway. How odd that you would get so bent out of shape about it.

Are we allowed to use mild swearing? I want to call him something.

Yes. Block me. Academia is a friendly place of encouragement and cooperation, where all agree. I am sure you will find this to be the case.

I wonder if you think Bs should be As, on the grounds that this is "quibbling" over a few points Somehow it does not surprise me you "have no idea." The person addressed knows exactly who it addressed to. No claim was ever made that GRE= scholarly potential, only that it is the easiest area to improve one's application and a quite desirable objective measure to add to the mix, to counter the subjective aspects like LORs and SOPs (which I have no objection to.)

Well the main issue at hand is that you honestly seem to be trolling. No one has discussed the GRE at great lengths in the past two weeks so you have more or less come in here throwing punches at some invisible strawman.

Sigh, check the results page if you think I am making something out if thin air. Accusations of trolling are often the refuge of someone without a legitimate counterpoint. And yet if I am throwing punches at a "strawman" (not how the term is to be employed, btw) then no one should get upset at "punches" thrown at a non-existent person. I'll leave you all alone now.

Oh god, really? They say "whatever" to Chicago's rejection (a fairly well-known defense mechanism) and you go off on their GRE? 

I could care less for either their GRE Or rejection. However I do care about the dismissive cry from one whose limited information offered, i.e. the GRE, gives a plausible reason to understand the rejection. In such a case the rejection should be accepted with a stiff upper lip.

seriously. just go. you're embarrassing yourself.

Man did it feel good to change my signature on here. Absolutely psyched (one of my dream programs!) though my brain isn't processing anything at the moment!

http://psychology.unl.edu/psichi/Graduate_School_Application_Kisses_of_Death.pdf