Coming Soon To A Blog Near You!

I'm sorry it has been a while since I posted anything.  I spent the long holiday weekend on Martha's Vineyard and will write up a post soon.  I also have some fun photos to share.  In the meantime I'm going to go consider the terrifying fact that I start Graduate School on Wednesday.  Shudder.

And The Winner Is...

A few weeks ago I had heard back from most of the seven grad schools that I applied to.  I was trying to make a decision between University of Oregon and Sacramento State University when I got a letter from one of my top choice schools that I had written off, Northeastern University.  They only took 35 people from hundreds of applicants so I didn't really hold out hope that I would get in there.  But I did.  I could not believe it.  I immediately began looking at everything Northeastern related online and fell in love with the school.  I joked the next day with my college advisor that the only thing that could make this decision any more interesting is if I got off the wait list at my "first choice" school.  Well, be careful what you wish for, because the next day that exact thing happened.  That "first choice" school, Case Western Reserve University, invited me to come on down to Cleveland.  After looking more into the program and the area around the University, I realized that Northeastern was my first choice all along, I just didn't have any hope of getting in there.  

So there you have it.  This fall I will be moving to Boston and will do one year of prerequisite coursework and two years of masters coursework.  I am so unbelievably excited.  I don't know what living in Boston will be like, but I am psyched to figure it all out.  Northeastern is in a small area of Boston that contains Harvard University, MIT, Tufts, Emerson, and so many more.  It is going to be so cool to be living in such a great college town with so many other students.  Go Huskies!

To learn a little more about Northeastern University you can click here and here.

Just Tell Me When It's Over

I promised you, my faithful readers, that I would keep you updated on my Grad School application status.

So, I took the GRE again in January and got the results back recently. My scores are as follows for the first test/second test:

Verbal: 630/650 out of 800
Quantitative (Math): 590/500 out of 800
Analytical Writing: 5.0/5.5 out of 6

I'm pleased at the 20 point jump on the Verbal section. I ran out of time on the Math section, which really sucks. I think I'm most pleased with the 5.5 in the Writing section. This brought me from the 84th to 94th percentile. This is huge given my area of study and the importance placed on this section. Schools will get the scores for both tests, so they will also see my 590 on the first Math section. All told, I'm happy with my scores and super happy that I don't ever have to take the GRE again.

As far as applications go, I have submitted all of them, which feels really great. I ended up only applying to 7 schools instead of 8. University of Washington wasn't going to be a good fit so I dropped it. Now I reside in the awful purgatory between application submission and hearing back from the schools starting in late March.

I have very strong opinions about my first choice school, second, etc. I'm not going to share the names of the schools until I hear back from them.

Please cross your fingers, toes, eyes and really anything else you can cross, and think happy thoughts for me.