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I would not pester departments at this point, unless you have a solid contact there, such as a professor you know is interested in working with you.

They do rolling admission for master's students, so not all is lost. Just hang tight.

Which program? Masters, Ph.D...?

One in the last 10-15 years? Admissions staff have to deal with missing recommendations every year, without fail. Unwilling references, fraudulent applicants, you name it. Trust me.

It shouldn't be difficult to write a few paragraphs on a subject you're passionate about, right? MAN I wouldn't even mention trouble you had.

I had the same thing happen - I was testing at around 700 on the verbal, but got much lower the day of. I think the time pressure hurt me a bit. I ended up with a quantitative of 730 and verbal of 630, writing 5.5. Around 80-90th percentile all around, which I was happy with, but still... you always want to be up another 5% or so, right? :wink: