ImDeMan

Hi! I've been tutoring students for the GRE for over five years. For those struggling with the quant section, I really love Kaplan's GRE Math Workbook. It goes through every concept of the GRE and gives you basic, intermediate, and advanced problems. There are also several practice sets focused on question type. My students have gone up 5-15 points in quant just by using this book.

How do admissions committees view professional experience? I'm planning on applying to art history and some interdisciplinary (UC CST) programs next year and am wondering how my experience will affect my application. I've worked as a research assistant at a top museum, an editorial associate at a scholarly press, and am now working as an assistant director of one of the interdisciplinary academic centers at a university. I earned an MA from this university and it is one of my top choices. The academic fellows at the center (full professors at the university) have also told me that they would write me a LoR when I decided to apply. I was hoping that my professional experience and MA (GPA: 3.9) would make up for my GPA from undergrad (3.5), but have heard conflicting opinions.