Yale GEPN Fall 2010

who are you calling a lady :P haha

Yeah, I did terrible on my GRE's. I was going to re-take them again, but the director of admissions said that it seems that in her experience they will not increase that much. So I'm relying on my GPA and experience. I didn't get over 1,000. I got 900 :/

Oops, my mistake. I always get on people's cases for assuming I'm a man since I'm currently in real estate investing. Who am I to start assuming nursing students are women? Geez.

haha I'm just kidding, it's no big deal!

Hey all! I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who began obsessing early! I plan on applying to Yale, UCSF, JHU, Vanderbilt, and maybe Columbia. And of course each one wants vastly different personal statements!

Has anyone gotten very far on Yale's? Succinctness is not my strength to begin with, but the amount of things they want covered in two pages is killing me! I thought the GRE would be the hardest part of applying - but the essays are way harder.

Anyways, I am glad that we have a thread going - the threads for past years seem to have been really helpful.

Hey there,

Dont think its impossible to raise your score. I studied pretty hard for the GREs and was able to raise my score about 200 points between my first practice test and the real exam. It really might be worth it to invest in one of those books- the cost about $70 bucks, but it might be worth it in the long run!

Good luck!

About the GREs, I read that "competitive" is a score of 1200, although other factors Im sure can qualify or disqualify people on either end of the spectrum.

I would agree that you should be able to raise your score. The GRE is not just about what you know, it also about speed and some study guides help by giving you strategies for increasing your speed and making educated guesses. I bought several of the ETS guides on eBay because the old actual GRE tests really help. I also got quite a few study guides from the library. Plus, now that you have taken it once you may have less anxiety. I usually am cool as cucumber during tests, but the I let the test section psych me out (it was a quant one and really hard).

You are pretty close to the average for nursing - it seems doable to raise it enough to be worth it!