Good Day:
"Excellent LORs with two being from experts in her field, good gpa, good solid work experience, hell of an SOP! Hmm master's project done internationally involving facilitating a community intervention project,setting up her own temp. lab ,and heading a team for fieldwork and sample collections all while doing the majority of the translating??? Very impressive! Recipient of an aphl/cdc eid fellowship as well! Granted very poor gre score and no publications.
Luckily we look at entire applications before we make any decisions because sometimes scores does not guarantee a persons ability to perform the actual work."
Bad Day:
"Holy hell is that a 1000 on her gre (old scoring)?????? UNCLEAN UNCLEAN, BURN THIS APPLICATION AND GET ME SOME BLEACH SOLUTION FOR MY HANDS, STAT!!!"
That score is after 3 retakes, multiple study books and one hell of a prep course. I am just not a standardized test taker, and have always had to supplement with experience and grades. blaaah. it helped with getting into my MPH programs but phds are such a different game..
lol good luck to everyone!