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I've received a few similar emails since taking the GRE; one actually stated at the bottom, "We identified you as a potential candidate for our graduate community through the GRE Search Service", but the rest didn't fess up. They all seem like spam that gets triggered by a particular range of scores and criteria in your ETS profile.

It was nice to find this thread today! I'm 36 and just now applying to graduate programs; if accepted, I'll be 37 when I start. I'm married and my husband's job makes moving permanently out of the question, and while we're prepared to be away from each other for a few years while I get this done, I don't feel comfortable being completely removed from him for so long, and limited my search to programs in the northeast. I have 13 years of military experience that is at least tangentially germane to my subject, but knowing that doesn't do much to quell the intense feeling of being from another planet during this process.

I can't tell you about the experience you might need, but as a geography major applying to MA and PhD geography programs, as I've been looking at the CVs of the faculty members at schools I'm interested in (and the profiles of their current PhD students), I've found a surprising number who didn't study geography for undergrad. For example, look at the current geography PhD students at Clark: http://www2.clarku.edu/departments/geography/graduate/current-students/. Plus, considering how closely related urban studies is to some disciplines of geography, I don't think you should be too worried about that part of your background (at least from what I've learned so far in this process).