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hahah awesome.

hahaha I think many of us will be hot messes.

I don't think anyone should give up. And since when is 30 old!?!? People are admitted for various reasons and attempting to predict your chances will always be a losing battle I think. You just have to wait it out! If you don't get in, you'll have a chance to regroup and decide if it is something you truly want. If you truly want it, you will go after it no matter what. Good luck!

They had this little blurb when I took my exam several months ago as well. The new form of questions would be in addition to the rest of the exam, in that you don't know which questions count/don't count. I never had any new versions of questions until the very end where it was optional to complete an additional exam section under the new format so that ETS people can figure out if the format sucks or not (I guess). So, for me, these new questions were a completely separate little 'mini-exam' afterward. I actually did not like the new format, but maybe that is because I had studied for the old! As for the math questions, I also am not the hottest in math. I went completely blank during the exam when I was looking at that horrible ticker clock in the corner and panicking. My tips are 1) don't panic and stare at the ticker clock and 2) find shortcuts to solving things if at all possible I think this was my downfall on the math portion -- I don't really know shortcuts to math that doesn't include me working it out start to finish. Just to give you a bit of background, I never took gr 12 Math (or any university level math), I ran out of time, so I quickly guessed approx 4 math questions on the exam and missed even more completely and I still ended up getting 500. Now, that not might be the best score....but I only studied for one week and like I said, I only had Gr 11 math!!! Last minute decisions on my part to take the exam haha. I think if you've studied more and at least have some more math experience, you will do perfectly fine. Those practice tests give you a rough idea of what your score might be, but take them with a grain of salt because you never know what types of questions you will be getting on the exam! good luck!

Your reference might choose to not write you a recommendation once they see you haven't waived your rights. I'd definitely waive them (and did). I would hope that if your reference was going to write you a crappy letter, they would have just opted out of it all together from the get go! I think you just need to have a little faith in them!

Maybe they have 'rounds'. Maybe 'on hold' means you didn't get in to the program for the first round, but might be asked for the 2nd round. That is all I can think of if they say your application is complete, are holding interviews AND said you are not waitlisted....

I've also had the same responses for linguistics as previous posters mentioned, but the best one I ever had was: Person: What is your major? Me: Speech Science Person: So you must be really good at oral speaking. Me: .......