A good sign?

Graduate School
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<p>Well, I am assuming this is a good sign: I submitted my political science PhD app to Baylor but my GRE was ABYSMAL. Shockingly, embarrassinly low. It was so low because I graduated from HS 16 yrs ago and college 8 yrs ago, my husband is deployed, I am alone with our two toddler sons, and I moved our entire household to Texas in October (right before the GRE). In short, I could not study AT ALL. </p>

<p>I am currently a SAHM but formerly an attorney with my JD from Georgetown and an LSAT in the 93rd percentile. I didn’t retake the GRE b/c I knew I wouldn’t do any better until my husband returns from overseas. </p>

<p>So, I submitted my PhD applications despite the tragic GRE scores b/c once I start something I just need to finish it; i.e. with no real expectation of getting accepted this year. (I only applied to the two schools near our military post.) Well, I was invited down for the department’s “Visitor Day” at the end of February, at which point I offered to submit my LSAT scores as evidence that I have performed better on standardized tests in the past. The professor I had been corresponding with felt like this would probably help the admissions committee since they didn’t know what to do with my low GRE. That was TWO WEEKS ago. I was then violently ill for the next week and a half. I finally get well and contact the department to see if it is too late to submit score report and the department’s secretary says it is not. Now I can’t find the damn thing. SO I have to pay 50 bucks to get it sent to me asap so I can fax it to Baylor. Is it really worth it? Would you get the LSAT score and submit it at this late date? I could have sworn they were supposed to have made admissions decisions by now so I am guessing that I must be in admissions limbo there, not accepted or rejected yet… maybe? </p>

<p>BLEH. I can’t STAND THIS. This is like the application that just won’t END!</p>

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<p>don’t wait for a response in this thread.</p>

<p>call up LSDAS.</p>

<p>get the score report.</p>

<p>fax it to Baylor.</p>

<p>NOW.</p>

<p>do it. seriously. 50 bucks is nothing considering all you’ve been through, and would have to go through again should u reapply next year (how much money is it to take the GRE again???)</p>

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<p>Yea, I agree. A small price for some peace of mind.
I have also moved around and sometimes I only find something the next time I move :-)</p>

<p>Make sure you follow up with contacting the dept or even better a prof/admissions officer after sending your score report.</p>

<p>And don’t worry even if they made decisions. It may be a little-known fact that grad programs admit people outside the official admissions process.</p>

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<p>I faxed my request for the scores to LSDAS yesterday morning. Now I am paranoid that Baylor has already made their decision but they would certainly have some note on my file and tell me not to bother sending in the scores, don’t you think?</p>