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I took it yesterday and had an identified Quantitative at the end. Skipped it, too exhausted. I probably would have done it if it were Verbal, though.

You got into a Master's program with scores similar to mine? That's great, congratulations, the rest of your app must have been really strong. I think all of them but UConn require it. And it's possible that UConn does and I'm just not seeing it on the site... I actually didn't realize until today that they don't mention the GRE, so unfortunately, it was one of the four schools I sent my score to. Ugh.

So! I just got an astonishingly bad score on the GREs. I studied hard, performed well on the practice tests, felt confident, aaaaand got a 500V 550Q. Adding insult to injury, one of my undergrad majors was English, and I'm applying to more humanities-oriented programs. How did I manage to memorize several hundred new vocab words (from Kaplan/Barrons) and still not recognize a single one on the test? And how did I manage to do better on quantitative than verbal when I can't math my way out of a paper bag? Mysteries. I'm actually not applying to 100% consistent programs - Most of what I'm looking at is M.A.T. Secondary Education in English, though some programs (like UConn's Cognition and Instruction) have more of a Psychology twist. Undergrad: Double major in English and French, minor in Art Undergrad GPA: 3.9 Graduated: 2008 Experience: 2 years working full-time as a Research Assistant in a psychiatric hospital, 3 summers working as a camp counselor, semester abroad in undergrad, founding member of philanthropic group, yadda yadda. Letters of rec: From PhDs employed at said psychiatric hospital/Brown University Was hoping to apply to (bunch of these are obviously reach): Brown, UConn, BU, UMass Amherst, UNH, all for Fall 2011. Should I give up? Re-take the test? (With a deadline as soon as December 15?) Address the issue in my SOP? Cry myself to sleep?