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torakichi

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  1. I don't know if this is the info you want, but I was told the decisions for EALAC were made February 18. The letter I got in the mail was dated February 26.
  2. I asked the very same question to a faculty member I corresponded with, and that person told me that yes, they are aware that the GRE Verbal is not an adequate representation of a foreign students English ability and that they rather trust the TOEFL score. Another thing that person told me is that if your Quantitative score is much higher than your Verbal they also take it as a sign that your abilities are better than the Verbal seems to indicate. So, in short, a high TOEFL and a high Quantitative can offset a low Verbal for international students, or so I was told.
  3. If they ask you for a CV/resume, you can probably avoid repeating some of the information that will also appear in there. Also, you can always ask your LoR writers to highlight some specific areas of your profile in their letters, if you feel you don't have enough space to do so in the statement.
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    I found this discussion on the Chronicle Forums very enlightening on what adcoms see when they look at our list of other programs where we are applying: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/t ... 109.0.html
  5. FWIW, all the faculty members I have talked to about word limits in the statements had no clear idea what the rules said for their own program. I have the feeling they go more by page count than by actual number of words. If they ask for 500 words, I'd say what you absolutely have to pay attention to is that, no matter what, the PDF the application website generates for you is not longer than 2 pages.
  6. It seems to me that you need at least 5/6 recommenders to manage that many applications. Asking a professor to take care of more than 7 recommendations sounds a bit overwhelming to me, if you want focused recommendation letters tailored as specifically as possible to each program.
  7. Those are good scores you got. When you receive the report with the percentiles you'll see that your Verbal will probably make the 90%. If you're worried about your writing score, think that they will also look at your TOEFL score.
  8. About 1), I concur with solefolia that you shouldn't mention it. Keep the conversation professional. The point is why you would be a good candidate to do research with him, not what your personal life looks like. About 2), I'll tell you about my experience. I have spoken to professors from about 10 different programs. All of them asked me at some point what other programs I was planning to apply to. None asked me to make any commitment or assure them that I'd choose their program over program X. If anything, my explanation about the other programs I was looking into seemed to convince them that I had "done my homework" and was serious about grad school. I think it pays to be honest with your potential advisers, and they'll respect you more that way.
  9. The ETS website says: "Official Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing scores will be sent to you and the score recipients you designated within 10 to 15 days after you take the test. Allow sufficient time for mail delivery from Princeton, New Jersey, USA." It sounds like a month (early Nov to early Dec) would be enough for them to determine the score (10-15 days) and for the report to make it to the 4 grad schools you select on that day (7-10 days at most?). For additional reports they say: "Score reports will be mailed to you and to your designated institutions approximately five business days after your request." So, add 5 days to the previous calculation to find out the time it may take them to get there (at most 15+10+5=30). Still feasible, but it seems like a good idea to choose the schools with the earliest deadlines as the 4 freebies.
  10. It also never hurts to show that you have read some of their own work. If you can, make reference to some of their books or papers when telling them about your research interests. If they don't reply, I remember Donald Asher's book recommends sending the message again after some time (I'd say at least a week or two), with a line like "I am not sure if you received my email blahblahblah". If the resend doesn't work either, the book says, print it out and send it through ordinary mail.
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