gdl2015

Not going to lie, the stress of this application season is getting to me more than I'd care to admit. Applying to 10 PhD programs for next fall. Good luck to you all in the same boat. Here's to hoping we stay sane and positive

I'm a Fulbright ETA and there was a typo in my application too. I was so worried about it!

Thanks for your advice. Still on the fence. I want my application to be as strong as possible, but it's a lot of time and money to re-take the test in a different country.

Hey everyone, I just got my general GRE scores back and am trying to make sense of the mixed results. I bombed the quantitative section (got a 149 which places me in the 37th percentile), got a 170 (99th percentile) in the verbal and a 5 (93rd percentile) in writing. Is it worth taking the GRE again to show that I can (sort of) do math? I'm applying to top English and Spanish Literature PhD programs for next fall. My top choices are Harvard, Brown, NYU, Standford, Yale, and UC Berkeley. For more context, I completed my BA summa cum laude at a respectable women's college, have good recommendations, am a Phi Beta Kappa Society member (for what that's worth) and am currently working as a Fulbright ETA in a Spanish-speaking country. This whole grad school process is new and very daunting to me so any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much.