Chance me for a M.S in geology/oceanography

[prospecting]

One last thing I wanted to add is this: I do not feel speaking with your UG adviser would be effective in determining how your qualifications will be assessed by the admissions committee at a different school. If anything, your Professor will reassure you that the GRE is one part of a multicomponent selection process and that you need not worry.

 

I suggest you do not take too much weight in concluding what you need to do and instead prep for your next GRE attempt.

[columbia09]

I want to get an MS and enter the oil industry. That's my ultimate goal and my research interests are micropaleontology and paleoceanography. If I retake the GRE it would have to be over the summer meaning I'll have to apply with these scores if I continue the process. I don't feel that I can properly prepare now with everything going on in my life and work. I think I'm just going to apply with these scores and pray.

[prospecting]

Yes - praying helps.

[columbia09]

So I e-mailed him and he said that I have to do better on the Q section. How much weight does that section hold ? I told him that I don't think I'll have adequate time to prepare in the follow up email.  

[prospecting]

I think you will find noone will have an absolute answer. If you don't have time to prepare for another GRE attempt, then any question about how well your application will fare is irrelevant. I think you may have already realized this from the replies you've received.

[columbia09]

Yea I just have to hope that I'll get into at least one of these schools