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    Grunty DaGnome got a reaction from ScashyMyday in ETS converted my old GRE scores to the new format   
    What is interesting is that my old scores as reported on my 2006 mailer put my percentile rankings at V:94% Q:81% and AW: 77%.

    Now, they are V:94% Q:80% and AW:84%.

    Weird that my "5" on the written test changed quite a bit, and that's the numerical score that does NOT change under the new scale ?!?
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to perrykm2 in Where is Everyone Applying?   
    OSU, WUSTL, Duke, Brown, Penn State, and Emory.
    I really don't feel confident in my ability to get into any, but I'm a dreamer.
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    Grunty DaGnome got a reaction from wreckofthehope in how do you justify studying literature?   
    Indeed. People often refer to "close reading" in English departments very colloquially as if it is a theory-free alternative to critiquing a text. Actually, formalism -- as you so correctly call it -- comes with its own host of theoretical and ideological problems. I think what people mean these days when they say "close reading" is that remnant of "New Critical" formalism modern high school English teachers rely on after stripping away all the problematic theoretical issues associated with it; that list of definitions that are useful for describing meter, verse, speakers, narrators, and so on.

    It's also interesting to think about how critics like DeMan, with his endless observations on "vertiginous" language grow directly out of New Critical attempts to limit all criticism to the poem itself. I recently reread Wimsatt and Beardsley's critique of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," which attempted to argue in all seriousness that it should make no difference to the critic if "Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song" is an allusion to Spencer or completely "new" language strung together poetically by Eliot. A critique that so squarely frames the inadequacy of a "four corners" approach to reading, is practically a gold-gilded invitation for post-structuralists to set up a tent city in the University quad and declare a movement.
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    Grunty DaGnome got a reaction from Sigaba in returning to grad school?   
    I went back 10 years after completing my undergraduate degree. It's hard. You spell things wrong from the fatigue of working a 50 hour week and professors jump on stuff like that as if they could correct the exhaustion out of you. It's par for the course. When you go back as an older student, I think you have to pride yourself on different things, like having a clear direction. Not getting caught up in minutia and petty competitive stuff like that is actually a strength if you're at a point in life that you can let it roll off your back. The real problem is how do you find your unflappable direction? I took non-degree classes at another university before I entered an official M.A. program. It helped quite a bit.
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to Sigaba in When during Graduate Career to Start Presenting at Conferences   
    Why? Are you suggesting that people should change the way they do their work for their peace of mind--or for yours?
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to lewin in Publication Spam/Scam   
    I've received that one too, twice. So have a few other grad students I know. I don't think it's an outright scam, but it's certainly worthless. Actually, telling people that you self-published might be worse than worthless because it reeks of desperation.
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to Bimmerman in I absolutely bombed the GRE :(   
    I didn't bother explaining away my poor GRE math score, I just acted like it didn't happen.

    Worked well enough since the rest of my application was good.
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to Kitkat in Revised GRE score range hypothesis   
    It is for the paper based test, but I think it might not be that different from the computer based version. I am assuming that at least the first section for the computer based version is similar to the paper based version, as that is the base point for everyone on that test. Where you go on the second section is dependent on the first and where I think the variation between the paper and computer based versions begin to change. I would assume that with the computer based version there is a bit more variation that you can have on the amount that you can get wrong, depending on the difficulty of your second section, and what kind of grade you might get. I think that the paper based might be close to say a middle of the road version of the computer based version.

    Although I think that the amount of questions you get right and wrong shouldn't matter, rather how many you get right or wrong in comparison to other people. After all, when you take the test, how do you know how many you got right or wrong, and how much control do you have over that other then knowing the material and how to get through it?
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to habanero in Recruitment Based on GRE Scores?   
    I've gotten about 7 recruitment emails and they've all been for highly-ranked Masters programs in math-y and computer science-y things. I know that they can't possibly be based on my scores since they're unknown. I also come from a very small school, so obviously they won't care about that. I am 100% certain that when I selected 'Computer Science' as my major, it put me into a giant database that schools can access. I know that it can be exciting when UC Berkeley's email address pops up in your inbox, but try to stay emotionally strong!
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to jpo645 in Revised GRE score range hypothesis   
    So here's the thing. Page 117 of the GRE Prep practice booklet from ETS lists predicted score ranges based entirely on your raw score from the practice test. There's really little else to go on except a table on the preceding page which shows what percentage of test takers correctly answered each question. With that said, the range probably matches the best and worse case scenarios based on your raw score. The low-end means every question answered had the easiest weighting, the high-end every question a hard weighting. I reckon the computer-based exam is the same thing or near similar.
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to habanero in Revised GRE score range hypothesis   
    So you think that if someone got a 710-800 range, their likely score would be 740-780 as opposed to 735-775? That makes a lot more sense (maybe because it is exactly what I want to hear!!).
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    Grunty DaGnome reacted to indalomena in What's Your Style?   
    Some of my most distressing intellectual moments were in undergraduate philosophy seminars
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