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Hello. I’m planning to apply for a PhD (humanities field) in December 2022 for Fall 2023 admission. I graduated in 2020 with my masters from an ivy. I’m applying to the same school again (among others) for my PhD. All other factors aside, do you think already having a masters from a school, especially if it’s one of the top in its field (in humanities, if that matters), gives an applicant any advantage for PhD applications to that same school or is it largely irrelevant? I know that there is a lot of competition due to the limited spots but just wanted to get an idea.

Hello. I’d like to apply to HGSE for a PhD in a few years using my GRE scores. Their website seems to suggest that they won’t accept any GRE scores prior to September 1st of five years before the application deadline. So, for example, an earlier HGSE page says, “Ph.D. applicants interested in Fall 2020 admissions must submit official GRE scores from no earlier than September 1, 2014.” And the more recent GSAS page (redirected from the HGSE page since the Ph.D. is between both schools) says, “ GRE scores are valid for five years from the test date (i.e., taken earlier than September 1, 2015, for fall 2021 admission).” So, this seems as though your scores have to be valid for the entirety of the application season. Even if your scores would have expired in October or November of 2015, you wouldn’t have been able to use it for fall 2021 admission, even if you were to submit them before the December 2020 Ph.D. application deadline. So, is that correct then? Has anyone experienced having their scores rejected despite not actually being expired yet and having to retake the GRE test? I’m asking because I’m worried that my scores might be considered expired a few months earlier than the actual 5-year expiration, meaning that I’d either have to apply one year earlier than I had planned or retake the GRE altogether.