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all but one of the transcripts i sent on 11/8 are still 'incomplete' on the applications.

can you preview it on amazon? that's what i did for the 1000 page book i was using. even though, more often than not, it wouldn't let me read the text, it still gave me the page number whatever i typed in was on.

i use a text to analyze culture and history?

my computer died a few months after i graduated and i lost pretty much everything, so last winter i started my writing sample. 19 sources for 19 pages, though they range from calculus books to early 20th century metaphysics. literary stuff in there too.

i don't think it's an issue of coding and/or website presentation. applying to astronomy programs last year, i came across websites as bad as Heaven's Gate's. it's more that the relevant information isn't posted anywhere on the site. agree with Timshel about taking it to mean something about the program.

has anyone else noticed how bad and user-unfriendly many grad programs sites are? i feel like you have to search for things like app logins, addresses, instructions, how to pay, required documents, required formats, and pretty much everything that should be laid right out in front of you because 300+ other students have the same questions and are trying to find the answers. just another little thing to add to the stress of applications and make prospective students worry whether they sent everything in right.

maybe protesters should start carrying pepper spray, bats, gun, gas masks....then this wouldn't happen

620 in the 76th percentile. not bad given i wasn't the best undergrad student and concentrated in creative writing, not lit. bad considering i want to get a PhD in literature.

i got a receipt for a program i sent my general score to (paying the extraneous fee) but since i chose not to send my subject, it wasn't on there. i did send both scores to another program the next day, but haven't gotten the receipt. wonder if it's the mail or if they'd actually hold it.

i sent in OSU earlier this week and will send everything due in december by the end of the day. i still don't feel like my SOP and writing sample are perfect, but fuck it, every time i look over it i change little things and it doesn't get anywhere. ever since i've started apps i've felt like i've been stagnating and i just want to get them over with.

i'm sure there is a metaphor waiting somewhere in the fact that both (some) universities and prisons contract through sodexo. the three years of undergrad i was vegan was no fun. at least, as a vegetarian, everywhere has pizza. i don't plan to eat much on campus though...it gets pretty expensive and i eat better when i brown bag.

i think its more how the grad school feels than the department. some might have a minimum cutoff, but that you're over 500 shouldn't be a problem, especially to the english department.

i had my quant percentile drop by 1% and my writing go up by 4% because of this years test takers

he goes into this another time...decaffeinated coffee, any type of sex long as you wear gloves. now if there were a way to make the quote pertain to professors who like marxist theory but aren't marxists...

congrats. i don't see why the OP is upset about 79%. still sounds good. as for me, with all the money ETS is getting for sending scores (somewhere around 2000% profit for each score report) i don't think i'm going to reward their unethical tactics of intentionally delaying me knowing my score two weeks to milk an extra 12$ out of me.

So a big part of what I plan to study is ideology, so I quote Zizek in my personal statement. Of people who've read it, there has been a yay, a nay, and no comment made. Objections raised were that there is a difference between being theoretically a Marxist and politically, and that I should quote critics, not theorists. He's spoke at a few of the schools I'm applying to, but I'm wondering if there's a greater chance of it negatively affecting my application than positively. Opinions?

a lot of applications ask for other last names you have used. i'm sure it happens a lot.

the only thing that's been holding me back these past few months. now i'm really starting to feel it. also, i worry i'm getting on LORs' nerves with these school swaps.

come march we'll have a thread personalizing our own rejections with lolcats

yay or nay? I fell like the answer would be easier if I were confident that I'd done well.

i changed a few schools around between the professors accepting to write and sending the request from the app....let you know how that turns out

does the term new-new shit follow the same logic as post-postmodernism?

my interest is fiction and marxist theory, not poetry....if you're interested

66.6% of the time sure i won't get in anywhere: 33.3% of the time sure i'll make it in my top choices: .01% thinking about it rationally