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Can somebody give your experience as to how long it took to get your scores? I would also really like to know. Eris, are you worried that the school needs the actual report by the deadline? Or is it that you need to know the writing score so you can at least report it, assuming you saw your V and Q scores on the test day? If it is the latter, I would pay the $12 or $13 for the phone service. If it is the former, I would talk to the school with the Jan 15th about it. Most of my deadlines were before I even took the test since I had one hell of a time scheduling the GRE. I took it a few days after you did. I talked to all the schools beforehand and they were very understanding and just said to send in the scores and self-report them as soon as I could. Some schools may be hard-asses about it, but I was very surprised at how nice all of mine were!

Annoying update: Accepted to Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, Yale, and Columbia! Now to decide which offer to accept. Totally normal updates: Going to Johns Hopkins next fall! or Got into my top choice: Columbia! But now I have to figure out if I can pay for it.

Shananagrams, I have definitely been there. Part of the reason I took awhile after college to apply to grad school was dreading the GRE. It turned out that I had a hard time with standardized tests because of undiagnosis dyslexia. I paid a bunch of money to get tested, got accommodations, and did better than I ever thought I could do on the GRE. After the test, I was so excited to contact the application coordinators and POIs to tell them my scores. No one cared. I mean, you have to show competency (which sounds like your high GPA will accomplish), but depending on the program, GRE scores won't hold you back much. However, it depends on the school, and I have no experience with history programs. Still, even if you do poorly on the GRE and some schools won't look at you because of that, there will always be others that won't care. Showing that you are a good fit for a specific program goes a long way. I don't know much about this, but I would be very surprised if you were penalized for having five transfer credits from a community college. That would be pretty ridiculous!

I took the revised GRE a couple days ago. I was expecting to see a range of scores immediately after the test, but rather saw two specific scores. Is that how it works now? Instant gratification/sorrow?