mcmanos

Sorry to hear. Good luck with other applications! Thanks for claiming the survey report, I take me doubts back.

I checked the website too and saw no change. To be honest, I'm suspicious of the Northwestern posts until someone will claim them here. If I recall correctly, they promised answers "by early March", so posting results a month ahead of time sounds strange (until proven otherwise).

Ditto. An e-mail with attached PDF.

Hey everyone, Just wanted to claim the University of Michigan Ann Arbor acceptance uploaded to the survey. Just received an e-mail and I'm mostly trying to lower my pulse. I'm one of today's Stanford rejectees, and was pretty convinced that I'm on my way to an 0 of 11. So here's one for everyone feeling down - just one acceptance and the feeling changes completely. Good luck to all (including me, 9 more left).

Hi everyone, First of all, warm thanks for your answers and wise advice. This issue deprived me of sleep for a couple of days, but I eventually decided to take it easy for a while and wait for the AWA scores as well. I have lots of other urgent stuff for my current studies, which were deep freezed for a few weeks due to the GRE. As long as 1320 would presumably not cut me off immediately at most top schools, with me being a foreign student and all, I figured that I could use the time to improve other aspects of my application, such as strengthening my bond with my LoR posters and possibly contacting prospective professors from the US. Also, I may have been misunderstood - I gained much experience in recent years at teaching assistance for undergraduate courses and research assistance. I also have some non-academic experience, such as business market research for pay for a while. Regarding TOEFEL - I had yet to do the test, though I plan to take it sometimes in the upcoming month and a half. All in all, I'm not too worried, after a brief examination of the general English level needed. Anyway, thanks again everyone. Of course, if you have some more thoughts on the subject - both for me and on for the general topic of GRE and international students, I'd be more than happy to read.

Hi everyone, Just did my first GRE earlier week, with somewhat dissapointing results: V570 (the lower end of my training's result spectrum), Q750, AWA still not in. I'm not from the US and English is not my mother tongue. I should also note that I'm currently an MA student in Political Science, aiming for the top tier PolSci departments in the US (applying this fall). I have research experience, TA experience, and I expect good recommendation letters, at least one from a well known professor in my sub-field of interest. Now, as tempting as it may be, I'm going to avoid asking if this will get me in - I realize that a definite answer is simply not out there. However, I was hoping that I could use your help in rationally assessing the possibility of a second rin (I still have time to take another exam in the upcoming weeks, come October). Firstly, I wanted to ask your opinion of this result, assuming I aim quite high. Secondly, I wanted to ask yout opinion on the importance of brilliant verbal results for international students. Is this really a problematic result for my background? Would an improvement of 30-50 points in the verbal, while surely positive, be of any acute importance? Thirdly, I wanted to ask whether taking more than one test is taken to note by the schools. I'm finding it hard to evaluate the risks of receiving another good-not-brilliant grade, yet for the second time. I would greatly appreciate any advice...

Hi everyone, I guess that anxious questions of "will my GRE suffice?" are common, perhaps too common, in these forums. While I do have an uncontrollable urge to do the same - got V570 and Q750, lower V of all my practice tests - I do know that there's no clear answer. Now, what I do wonder is if anyone is familiar with the way top universities treat the GRE grade of international students. I ask because I certainly aim high, especially with a 5-6 years immigration involved. I have heard the notion that GRE are basically for cut offs, and then lose relevance cimpared to other factors - experience, recommendations, SoP etc. So, do you know, heard of or can speculate regarding mercy when dealing with international students?