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I'm working with my new grad school adviser. I'm really happy that I have time to settle in the city and in the lab before classes start.

I think you're fine. Those quant and verbal score are amazing! I'd work on other aspects of your application instead of trying to "fix" an already great GRE.

Many department websites post this information. You might also be able to find it just by googling the university and acceptance rates.

Nothing for me: E/E, G/G, G/VG A sincere congratulations to those who were awarded and my condolences to those of us who will be back on this thread next year!

Hi! I'll be there I'll be joining the psychology department.

Yep. This is me. I completed the app the day it was due - not my usual style at all but it was unavoidable.

I notified Carnage Mellon, University of Washington, and University of Pittsburg that I will be accepting another offer.

Articles, articles were my nemesis. I don't usually have a problem, but I was reusing parts of my SOP and kept forgetting to add or eliminate "the" when changing "University of Place" to "Place University" or vise versa. I ended up with some weird sentence structures.

I'm halfway to convinced that OP plagiarized that assignment - imagine how the professor feels.

Right there with ya!

Is it possible for you to get incompletes this semester? I have a friend who needed to leave in the middle of a quarter for health reasons and ze were able to finish the work and have the incompletes changes to a letter grade the next quarter.

Come on (read with whichever vocal stress makes you happy)

Hot shot

I'm confused as to why you think that it's the April 15th deadline that will get you in trouble here. This deadline is in place as an attempt to prevent schools from forcing students to make an early decision. If you made an early decision of your own accord, and now wish to change that decision, this situation really has nothing to do with April 15th. As TakeruK suggested, there are likely to be financial ramifications of changing this decision and it would very probably make people at that school look poorly on your professional behavior. However, I can imagine a few instances where it would be worth the risk.

I was pretty middle of the road for the programs that I applied to, except AWA where I was below average. Quant:160 - 78th percentile Verbal: 168 - 98th percentile AW: 4.0 - 56th percentile.

(1) ~$10,000 (2) None - I was offered full tuition and a generous stipend (3) No debt, no savings (4) $85k

I was just accepted to the cognitive program at Princeton. Where you at the interview days?

I'm always getting mail for previous tenants - a whole host of different people. I usually just write "not at this address" and stick it in the outgoing mail.

funny bone

I've found that people's estimation of the difficulty associated with studying psychology varies mostly as a function of 1. their prior experience and 2. their specialization. I know psych majors who came from areas like molecular biology, biochem, and aerospace, and they all pretty much agree that psych is a piece of cake. My friends with cogneuro and psychophysics/psychopharmacology aspirations complain more about the difficulty of classes than do my friends focusing on social or clinical. This is of course tempered by the courses taken and how seriously you take each course. I've found most aspects of my degree to be relatively easy, there is little reading compared to philosophy courses (my minor) and the concepts tend to be reasonably intuitive (my focus is in cogneuro). This said, it's the extra things that make your degree worth while and this is where most of the difficulty/time commitment lies.

This is probably almost entirely dependent on the program's policies. You might be able to contact the department and correct the error/ask if it is a problem.

bright light

I was at an interview last week and several of the other prospectives had Harvard interviews scheduled. Not entirely sure which program but I think one was interviewing with developmental POIs.

"Commensurate" can be read as "proportional" or "corresponding". You could talk the others into making sense, but "commensurate" is the only choice that fits without additional explanation.

Have you ever heard of heuristics or unconscious bias? Those of us who are worried about what to wear are attempting to maximize the favorability of the "snap judgement" that a person makes in the first ten or so seconds of meeting another human. This has nothing to do with the character of the interviewers or the interviewees. It may be true that this initial impression is largely outside of either parties control, but there are some things that can be done to sway the probabilities. Including dressing appropriately for the occasion. Because many of us are entering social situation that we haven't encountered before, it is useful to seek the advise of other, more experienced, members of the community.