Big news! I did well enough on my GRE to be accepted to UTA unconditionally! (Whahoo!) I was pretty darn sure when I saw those scores I was going to have to jump through some hoops to get accepted, but lo—either somebody made a mistake, or lots of folks are dumber than me! I’m not asking any questions.

The GRE is just a glorified SAT. Let me tell you a little story about me when I was in high school. All the Jr.s had to take the PSAT (Practice SAT) for placement or something. Then we all went to see our guidance councilors individually to talk about our scores and what tract we wanted to take for our Sr. year.

I walked in and my councilor said, “Well, Shannon, your score is right here in the middle of the bell curve.”
I said, “Well, that’s good right?”
He said, “Yes, usually yes, but not so much for you.”
He showed me the curve and explained how it was calculated and said, “So, here are your scores, Language skills, very good, 90 percentile. Math skills, not good, 20 percentile. When we average those together, you are in the middle of the bell curve.”

So, on my GRE, let’s just say there are some very similar scores. C’est la vie—I’m not teaching math!