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Yeah the closing of Palms was pretty tragic. But my experience with SCTers is that they mainly hang out at Chapter House in CT or Felicia's/Westie downtown...or Stella's I guess but it's always so quiet there in the summers.

I worked for SCT the past two summers (currently finishing up my undergrad here)...it's a great program obviously full of people doing pretty fascinating things and such. The atmosphere for socializing is nice and the courses don't require a paper or any submitted work so you have time to work on your other projects while you're in Ithaca. There's also endless receptions with endless wine and beer and fancy catered food. The lectures are hit or miss but I've only heard good things about the courses (which unfortunately I didn't get to sit in on). But yeah basically you'll have a lot of time to yourself and probably drink pretty often and go swimming in the gorges. Ithaca is infernally hot in the summer so that tends to happen quite a bit.

So I just took the GRE and scored 160 on verbal, 159 on quantitative, and 5.0 on the analytical writing. I'm looking to apply to English departments at U. Penn, Brown, U. Chicago, Columbia, and Berkeley (Rhetoric)... and possibly NYU as well. I'm finishing up my Comp. Lit and English degrees (at an Ivy league school, won't say for anonymity) at the moment, with 3.9 GPA, a solid writing sample, and good recs. Are my scores passable or will they hinder me from getting into these programs? I can't seem to find gre admission statistics for any lit/humanities programs out there. Please help!