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Does anyone know which ipad apps are the best to download for whatever grad school purpose? Also, I'm in need of an app that lets me save pdf files from safari. Does anyone know of one?

Like a dumbass I haven't checked my spam folder in ages, and right there was an acceptance from UIUC. I'm going to their visit day this week, but there was nothing in the e-mail about funding. Does anyone know if there is? Can anyone tell me about UIUC? I kind of just applied there to just apply. For anyone still waiting from a school: CHECK YOUR SPAM!!

Thank you middy for the response. This process is so nerve wracking. I hope I get an interview!

I would also like to know....this forum is such an addiction!

Anyone heard back from NYU?

If you used a credit card, dispute the duplicate charge with the credit card company! Don't worry about your chances at getting in being affected, the admissions office where this goes on is probably in a separate building from the program you're applying to and chances are the people have never even seen each other in their lives.

I got 5 wrong. They were all on difficulty 5 (wtf does this mean?) and they were questions 2, 7, 11, 26, and 27

I had no idea this existed! Thank you!

I got a 790 (91st percentile), and I wanted to cry as I was taking the GRE. I thought I was doing horribly, and I really had to guess on a lot of questions. Looking back, a lot of my questions weren't that hard, except the ANSWERS were tricky. Examples: -I had at least 6 questions based off of charts/graphs and the answers differentiated by the smallest amounts. -I had a weird question that I had no idea how to answer about people's names and what could be formed out of them? -Equation of a circle -Weird question about a 3-d plane that described a shape that was made from all points equidistant from a single point that was intersected by 2 parallel planes (cylinder! took some thought..) I also ran out of time on the last question and had to guess blindly without reading. In my experience, a lot of the practice books out there don't help you if you already have a good grasp of the material that people need to know to get a score in the low 700s. If you want a higher score, you're definitely going to have to know how to do more difficult computations that most prep books don't even include!

What is there to be witty about on the GRE? The writing prompts are general stock debate questions that everybody should have some opinion on. I wrote my essays like a machine. They were unoriginal and extremely structured, with 2 paragraphs about why I agreed and another paragraph why I could also go the other way. I wrote my essays to get a good score, not to make some kind of stand or express my opinions. I got a 6!

A lot of programs I applied to base admissions decisions by committee, so it shouldn't be too much of a factor that your preferred professor left the university. There must be some kind of overlap between research topics, and adcoms know that potential students aren't too committed to their interests and that most are probably just making up BS just to seem interested. You should be fine!

Application fees for 3 schools: $60 $70 $140 Transcripts: $15 GRE & GRE Subject: $160 $140 So $585. I saved money by having the 3 schools I applied to already on the score reports for the GREs. The subject test being $140 and computerized general GRE being $160 is ridiculous, especially because it's paper and pencil vs. electronic!

I would recommend just studying the entire process of hearing or seeing, and then just memorize the processes and structures involved. For example, south enters the ear through the pinna, which concentrates sound waves, then it enters the auditory canal, where it is funneled to the basilar membrane, etc... Extra tip: The GRE uses really old terms. For example, they don't call them the anvil, stirrup, and hammer, but the weird latin terms that you see in some books...

Hi everyone. I'm a current college senior and I went abroad spring semester of my Junior year. Naturally, I got pretty dismal grades (somewhere around a C-). I took non-major related courses and took classes that would fulfill elective credit at my university. On my university's transcript, the grades are NOT reflected, but I had to submit transcripts from my study abroad school that has the grades for the classes (mostly in history and art, NOT what I am applying to grad school for), and they are on a 10 point scale, so they are difficult to really translate to letter grades unless you really work it out. Will adcoms care about these bad grades? Do you think they would even try to decipher the conversion to American letter grading?

I also want to know about this. I am taking core content classes this semester in the field I am interested in, and I'm expecting to get good grades and a rise in GPA. Should I send them an updated transcript? And how?