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You cannot transfer. You have to apply to other programs and start as a first year student again. It's perfectly doable and several people do it. 
1. You might be able to get a good recommendation letter from someone there. I'd try to have at least one from this program. 
2. Work on explaining what you want to do in terms of research and improve your materials.  You'll need a very good cover letter and research statement. Avoid the sad stories and anecdotes about your life if you put any. I don't know why people put those. If you are reapplying and move to a better fit/better program, then you need to show that you got some skills/did something/did well. 
3. On your advisor, it's also a pandemic, so someone not being not available right now it's hard to gauge. I'd recommend getting in touch with other students this advisor has currently. Talk to them. If there is someone who graduated recently, talk to them as well. 

All I ever argued is that the GRE is still a relevant factor in current admissions and I asked how the GRE was culturally biased and undermined diversity. You can say that whatever I said is being dismissive and painting with a broad brush, but this is still not a legitimate critique given what I actually said (I don't want to repeat this for the third time here).
Well I replied - just now - to two of the three comments in response to what I said - I'll get to the last one and I'll easily lay out there references.
You may think that I am taking an odd tone on this topic, but why would it matter that I am getting pushback? I actually don't understand this? Should I give in simply because people disagree with me? Regarding the tone, remember that I am merely responding to your accusation that I am taking a glib view when I am obviously not. I am trying to have a conversation about stuff and it is fine - I think - to be direct. And I did not launch accusations your way but responded to what you said. The references you posted still do not support your point. I don't think when people claim that the GRE is biased that I am the one obligated to defend the opposite position. You have to show the evidence for the astonishing idea that it is biased or not correlated with ability. And your evidence does not hold to to scrutiny. I explain in detail why. I don't know why this is so upsetting to you. 
No I did not read your profile and this seems to have offended you lol. I was under the impression that people posting in this thread were people applying in the current year to political science programs. So I made a huge mistake there. But since you are in a grad program, my point about B-grades and ultimately how the article does not go against the view that the GRE correlates with ability should be clear to you. Is it not?
And I still think that when people post "evidence" for something that clearly does not support their position, then it is fair to assume that they either did not read or understand what they presented. Be honest - did you in fact read the article or did you skim the abstract? I'm guessing the latter.
Either way - this is derailing this thread and I suggest that we end our discussion here so people can use this space more productively. The admission process to political science programs continues to be grueling, and I - like many others - are here to help and support the best we can.

Hi all! First-year PhD student who used the board last year popping in to wish you all good luck. The application process really sucks but I promise you you all will make it through. Make sure you recognize both the benefits and drawbacks of this board - it is great to connect with others going through the same thing as you but make sure you find things to do outside of checking this board, especially once you get to late January/early February. I'm not sure I have much to offer at this point in the process but feel free to shoot me a message if you think I can be of any help. Again, best of luck!

It varies from program to program. Some decisions are made available as early as end of January and others might come in late March or even early April. Hang in there.

AFAIK decision timelines vary a lot across universities, from late January until early-mid March. It might be worth checking the previous app cycle threads and see when people reported results from each department, as they seem to release results more or less on the same period every year (for instance, Berkeley seems to always send offers around January 30th-February 1st). Someone also collected this data for most universities on this link: https://imgur.com/a/EuNTB

It doesn't. That's the whole point of GRE being optional.

That might only be true for quant and math-related classes.

If you revisit my original post you will notice that I did not make a blanket statement, but said that some students who do well on the GRE do not succeed in their grad programs and some students who do poorly do succeed. But this does not take away from the general trend that higher GRE scores leads to better grad program performance on average. I looked up the articles you mentioned and there are numerous problems with the first study at least (which is the only one I looked at in more detail).
1. I don't want to go into detail, but using very unsophisticated methods the authors find only partial support only for the hypothesis you put forward.
2. Besides the authors are trying to tease out how a particular GRE cutoff affects different students and finds that since underrepresented students tend to pass the third statistics course at the same rate of students with higher GREQ scores, that the implementation of a GREQ cutoff is barring such underrepresented students who would otherwise have passed that course (with a B).
As you will learn if you enter a graduate program, B is a passing grade in a graduate course but there is much institutional pressure to give students passing grades. Everyone will get at leas a B except if it is completely indisputable that a student will not be able to complete the program. See on page 214: "Of note, all students who fully matriculated from all GRE-Q score groupings passed the statistics courses with a 3.0 (B) or better.". Lol, everyone in the sample got a B or better.
Also note that this does not in any way contradict the fact that students with higher GREQ scores do better. Indeed, students with higher GREQ did better in the mentioned statistics course, i.e. were more likely to get As, and therefore GRE scores do predict performance in terms of grades at least. There really are more things I could say, but at best the study is not inconsistent with what I said earlier.
I would also generally advice against the practice of linking to articles that you either have not read, do not understand, or have not thought about enough to see if they support your point. Indeed, I could also post a bunch of articles below that find the opposite, but it is not - IMO - particularly useful for anyone.
Again, all I am saying is that the GRE correlates with ability, and there is - just like IQ tests predict intelligence - no doubt about it as far as I can tell.

I'm willing to accept this.
It certainly is unfair that students with more financial leverage can take the exam several times and those without cannot. But this is not really a fault of the test but that people do not have the same access to it (which is still a problem).
It does not constitute evidence that you can cite a professor or two who says this. There is absolutely no doubt that higher scores on the GRE correlate with ability. Again, it may not be a perfect measure, but the GRE together with other elements of the application gives a pretty good picture of the student.
Explain to me how the test is culturally biased. Is it that questions are asked in a way that is easier to understand for certain groups of people? You must be implying that the test does not really measure the potential of students such that those who the test is biased against actually do better than the biased test predicts when then go to graduate school. But there is no evidence of this; the GRE predicts extremely well how students do in their grad programs so it's hard to see how it could be culturally biased. Students with low score do worse than students with high scores. I am still not saying that the GRE is the only thing that matters. I'm only saying that it predicts performance and it does.