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Pros and Cons of Taking Second Test?
The graduate program for which I am applying accepts either the Miller Analogies Test OR the Graduate Record Exam. I signed up for both because ordinarily I'm a cover-the-bases kind of gal. But I'm swamped with freelance work right now and of course there's tons of kid-oriented holiday stuff going on right now.
I took the MAT yesterday and scored well. I won't know the exact percentile until I get the official record in the mail, but it should be somewhere between the 85th and 95th percentile.
The fact of the matter is that I'm a 40-year-old applying to graduate school and I suspect that they're barely going to look at these scores. They'll care much more about what I've been doing since I left the classroom (writing curriculum and raising kids) and what I'm doing now (writing curriculum, raising kids, and volunteering at their school) and whether or not I'd be useful to them as a grad assistant (so far, they think I would).
If I cancel the GRE I don't get the entire fee back--I get back $90 of the $140 (My husband is unemployed. That $90 could pay our November electric bill). It's a 2-hour drive each way to the exam, and the exam itself is a 4-hour time suck. Plus, I'm dreading the analytical writing portion of the exam. I know I'm a writer by trade, but I'm applying for a math education major and most of my courses will be math courses.
Sigh.
I don't know what to do. Cancel? Take the test anyway in case I do well again and that's one more point in my favor?
Take a nap? Figure it out later? Thoughts and opinions? (I can't take a nap. I need to get four pages of geometry written tonight and I just got home from my job at the law office. No rest for the weary until the turkey goes in the oven and the tree goes up.)
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