Thursday, October 22, 2009

GRE & Grad School Future

I think that Morgan and i are looking more and more at going on straight from Winona and getting into a Ph.D. program somewhere. I was going to apply to the University of Illinois, but due to the widespread corruption in the system that has been recently exposed in that university system (but it's Illinois - I shouldn't be too surprised), we are shifting our search elsewhere. I have recently taken the GRE (both general and subject) and am pleased to announce that overal, my scores are good enough to get me in almost anywhere. Granted, my math was low (52nd percentile), but all of my programs look to make sure that the cumulative GRE score is over 1100 (I cleared that easily), and their main focus is on the analytic and verbal sections. I received a 5.5 out of 6 for the analytic putting me in the 88th percentile, and I received a score on the verbal section that put me in the 94th percentile. I do have to say it was a good feeling to see that I am in the top 6% of individuals who have taken the test at least in the verbal section. So, I am now garnering some good letters of recommendation in the hope that I will be accepted into a program by next fall. If not, it's off to find a teaching job for a year in order to try again. Anyone know of some good schools?