[IAmA Grad Student Rep on a AdComm]

Thank you so much for this.

[FALL 2016 Applicants!]

On 10/30/2015, 4:52:14, kameldinho said:

Its great that you spoke to a single person who somehow defied the odds and ended up in a presumably bottom tier PhD program, if what you say is true. You should bear in mind that you're about to embark on journey that will train you to become an academic research, so you should know how disastrous it is to make inferences and generalize from a single observation. Its not that hard to crack the 70th percentile on verbal with a bit of practice, especially for a sociology major; I'm a math/econ guy who has never written a single term paper and hates reading anything that isn't equations and I stilled nailed a 160V with the free magoosh android app and the $20 ETS prep book as my only study material. Its not a question of lack of financial resources, though I will concede that the GRE test fee was quite hard to stomach. I'd have been a lot more sympathetic if it was quant, as I did quite poorly on the quant despite my math background. The GRE quant questions just don't make any sense to me.

Pretty rude. I hope you don't act this petty if you enter a PhD program. Academia does not have time and space for immature childish behavior. Very unprofessional.