maybe i wish i had done a lot more research in my college career and been more scientific and made better use of college but i didn't
now i'm just applying to corporate jobs like a putz
i really regret not finding an academic passion and putting effort into doing that
just now i'm starting to think of things that would be cool, but look i'm a senior already, it's too late
i wish i had done some more stats stuff and done some NLP stuff and gone and done some content analysis research, i find that interesting, but i wasted college
It looks like I get to start university, start working towards my GRE, and start researching graduate programs all at the same time! FUCK YEAH!
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If you keep taking the GRE do they only view your most recent score, or take them all and average it, or what?
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What'd you get on the LSAT?
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Graduate school is fun. I get to teach undergrads and get paid. Plus I get my own desk and workbench.
Also there's the risk of getting silicosis and subsequently lung cancer due to my research on silica nanoparticles.
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How did you get waitlisted with a 170?
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Your guess is as good as mine. I heard from a lot of other people who didn't get into places they were expecting to because of the economy; I guess the idea was that a lot of people didn't like the looks of the job market so there were a lot more applicants. Then far fewer people made it in off the waitlist than usual because people were hanging on to the acceptances. I'm trying to take the explanation with a grain of salt though, I don't like to feel like I'm passing the buck. I'm getting more recommendations this year and rewriting my personal statement and working on extra projects at the law firm I work at; not sure what else I can to to increase my chances.
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The LSAT is a percentile based system though, so if you scored a 170 that means you're in the top 96% of all applicants.
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do i have to take the mcat AND the gre to get into med school?
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I know that 95% starts at 168 and 55% is around 155-160.
The LSAT grading system is so retarded, it could only have been designed by people who never took math past high school.
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First question: Princeton.
Second question: because beer is yummy (to some) and friends are fun.
Sometimes I feel like I could have worked a lot harder too.
First question: Princeton.
Second question: because beer is yummy (to some) and friends are fun.
Sometimes I feel like I could have worked a lot harder too.
I figured you went there
From all your tux comments
And it's not so much about how I could have worked harder so much as I wish I had focused my studies in a given direction more
I have an interview in Princeton, NJ this wednesday
Yeah, tuxes galore around here.
Good luck on your interview! If you have time, I'd be more than happy to get you lunch.
Thanks for the offer, they are having someone take me out to lunch as part of the interview dealie. And then after that I should probably head back to the city.
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If you keep taking the GRE do they only view your most recent score, or take them all and average it, or what?
ETS will send them all of your scores from the last 5 (?) years, and it's up to them as to how they interpret it.
GRE Math (Quantitative in their language) is easier than SAT math, but the Verbal (Qualitative) is much harder. GMAT Quantitative is a real mindfuck, but GMAT verbal is really easy.
As for me, I'm applying to the Evening MBA program at Georgia Tech since I work for GT and it's free if I get in :winky: (since it's night school, I still get my full salary too). My GMAT score (700) and UGrad GPA (3.57 in EE) are above average for the program, but now I'm trying to figure out which professors to try to use for LOR.
I'm a junior undergrad right now, I've already got a good idea on what I want to go to grad school for and where to apply, I just have to get around to the GRE process, making a personal statement etc. and then hopefully I have a good gpa come graduation senior year. My cumulative right now is a 3.16, major-related courses is a 3.9... hoping the cumulative goes up since it's major-related courses from here on out.
Oh and i should probably try and do an internship related to my academic interests.
I'm questioning whether I want to do MBA/LLB or just finish level III exam for CFA and never think of school ever again. I think my LSAT expires this year.
ETS will send them all of your scores from the last 5 (?) years, and it's up to them as to how they interpret it.
GRE Math (Quantitative in their language) is easier than SAT math, but the Verbal (Qualitative) is much harder. GMAT Quantitative is a real mindfuck, but GMAT verbal is really easy.
As for me, I'm applying to the Evening MBA program at Georgia Tech since I work for GT and it's free if I get in :winky: (since it's night school, I still get my full salary too). My GMAT score (700) and UGrad GPA (3.57 in EE) are above average for the program, but now I'm trying to figure out which professors to try to use for LOR.
I'm going for a history masters. they don't give a fuck about my quantitative scores.
Still, I got a really good verbal SAT score (and my skills have DEFINITELY improved since then). We'll see.
An example of something an English grad student did that I thought was impressive:
she was my English professor's student, so I heard about this from him. Apparently the most popular plays in the 18th century were written by women, and they had been almost entirely forgotten. This isn't tokenism -- the grad student looked up the box office receipts to prove it. These were romantic comedies that ran for as long as a hundred years. These made Cats look like a seventh-grade drama production. And some of them were borderline-feminist; at least, there would often be a witty, beautiful female protagonist getting her way through cunning and teaching the men around her a lesson or two.
So basically a good grad student in the humanities can redefine the way we think about something. From now on, the 18th century in English drama, instead of being sort of a blank spot that nobody writes about, is now going to be known as the Era of Female Playwrights.
I'm questioning whether I want to do MBA/LLB or just finish level III exam for CFA and never think of school ever again. I think my LSAT expires this year.
Jesus balls dude, level 3? A bunch of my friends finished their level 1 and stopped because it got mindfuckingly hard. Good for you.
I'm questioning whether I want to do MBA/LLB or just finish level III exam for CFA and never think of school ever again. I think my LSAT expires this year.
Jesus balls dude, level 3? A bunch of my friends finished their level 1 and stopped because it got mindfuckingly hard. Good for you.
It's not that hard. You just have to have no life for 3 years.
I know that 95% starts at 168 and 55% is around 155-160.
The LSAT grading system is so retarded, it could only have been designed by people who never took math past high school.
that... sounds about right
my 164 was 92 percentile last October
it's another one of those tests that does a fairly good job of separating out the top ten percent of applicants and then does an absolute shit one of predicting anyone below that
I'm questioning whether I want to do MBA/LLB or just finish level III exam for CFA and never think of school ever again. I think my LSAT expires this year.
Jesus balls dude, level 3? A bunch of my friends finished their level 1 and stopped because it got mindfuckingly hard. Good for you.
It's not that hard. You just have to have no life for 3 years.
Were you working while you were studying? These guys were pulling I-banker hours and studying every free second they had. I felt so bad for them
Woo, I already finished my master's! But now I want to do another because I like school more than anything else.
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That's the way I feel, after much dissection of my happiness at various tasks in my life.
Gon' go back to school.
So now I've got a list of programs and I'm weeding through the ones that sound interesting and will be remotely swingable on my budget. I'll work on affording grad school once I've actually applied and gotten into some programs, hopefully.
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maybe i wish i had done a lot more research in my college career and been more scientific and made better use of college but i didn't
now i'm just applying to corporate jobs like a putz
i really regret not finding an academic passion and putting effort into doing that
just now i'm starting to think of things that would be cool, but look i'm a senior already, it's too late
i wish i had done some more stats stuff and done some NLP stuff and gone and done some content analysis research, i find that interesting, but i wasted college
what a waste
of college
i better get a job at one of these places
guys why did i waste my college time
It looks like I get to start university, start working towards my GRE, and start researching graduate programs all at the same time! FUCK YEAH!
One key is that you want to have enough time to take it again before you apply in case you get a bad score.
If I had my way you'd be writing your papers through a STRAW!
*cough* umm. Nevermind.
Applying to law schools, almost done with my application. Applied last year, waitlisted. Applying again, hoping for better odds.
Depends on the school.
Some require you to list every score, some only care about your most recent one, some will average your scores together.
Here's a FAQ for you Cal: http://www.testmasters.com/faq-gre.html
Is this me? 170.
Also there's the risk of getting silicosis and subsequently lung cancer due to my research on silica nanoparticles.
Your guess is as good as mine. I heard from a lot of other people who didn't get into places they were expecting to because of the economy; I guess the idea was that a lot of people didn't like the looks of the job market so there were a lot more applicants. Then far fewer people made it in off the waitlist than usual because people were hanging on to the acceptances. I'm trying to take the explanation with a grain of salt though, I don't like to feel like I'm passing the buck. I'm getting more recommendations this year and rewriting my personal statement and working on extra projects at the law firm I work at; not sure what else I can to to increase my chances.
do i have to take the mcat AND the gre to get into med school?
The LSAT grading system is so retarded, it could only have been designed by people who never took math past high school.
I am pretty sure that the answer is no, the GRE is not required.
First question: Princeton.
Second question: because beer is yummy (to some) and friends are fun.
Sometimes I feel like I could have worked a lot harder too.
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
I figured you went there
From all your tux comments
And it's not so much about how I could have worked harder so much as I wish I had focused my studies in a given direction more
I have an interview in Princeton, NJ this wednesday
Good luck on your interview! If you have time, I'd be more than happy to get you lunch.
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the offer, they are having someone take me out to lunch as part of the interview dealie. And then after that I should probably head back to the city.
I got a 9001 on my LSAT and went super saiyan.
ETS will send them all of your scores from the last 5 (?) years, and it's up to them as to how they interpret it.
GRE Math (Quantitative in their language) is easier than SAT math, but the Verbal (Qualitative) is much harder. GMAT Quantitative is a real mindfuck, but GMAT verbal is really easy.
As for me, I'm applying to the Evening MBA program at Georgia Tech since I work for GT and it's free if I get in :winky: (since it's night school, I still get my full salary too). My GMAT score (700) and UGrad GPA (3.57 in EE) are above average for the program, but now I'm trying to figure out which professors to try to use for LOR.
Oh and i should probably try and do an internship related to my academic interests.
Still, I got a really good verbal SAT score (and my skills have DEFINITELY improved since then). We'll see.
This is great stuff, thanks.
Jesus balls dude, level 3? A bunch of my friends finished their level 1 and stopped because it got mindfuckingly hard. Good for you.
Coran Attack!
My life is depended on that one stupid test.
It's not that hard. You just have to have no life for 3 years.
man used bookstores buy used books right
like on site?
i can't think of why they wouldn't, but i want to save myself the trip if i can
that... sounds about right
my 164 was 92 percentile last October
it's another one of those tests that does a fairly good job of separating out the top ten percent of applicants and then does an absolute shit one of predicting anyone below that
Were you working while you were studying? These guys were pulling I-banker hours and studying every free second they had. I felt so bad for them
Coran Attack!
why am i applying to so many schools
Gon' go back to school.
So now I've got a list of programs and I'm weeding through the ones that sound interesting and will be remotely swingable on my budget. I'll work on affording grad school once I've actually applied and gotten into some programs, hopefully.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
This this this. I'll write about anything you want - I love writing. I love arguing and writing persuasive essays. I love writing short stories.
I HATE writing about myself and how I've shown personal strength or overcome a great obstacle or anything like that.