I suspect it will come off as scheduled at 10AM.
But I suspect that only because the bank isn’t directly involved.
In other news, the lady of the house is taking her GRE today. She’s starting a three-year Master of Recreational Therapy program at IU. She is very nervous about the GRE. Don’t know why. She’ll do fine.
UPDATE, 9:18 AM: She just called. She started at 6:30 AM and is already done. She got 520 and 510, which is plenty more than the 800 combined she needed. She’ll get the score on the essay part in a couple of weeks, but it sounds like she aced that as well.
When I did mine back in 1989, I got 690/710. But I had the benefit of being a senior in an undergrad program at the time. She’s been out of college (except for one class in anatomy that she needed for one of her certifications) for over 30 years.*
Told her she would do fine. She’s the bestest and brightest 🙂
Celebrating with chai latte in the appropriate mug:
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* Funny story. Back in 1990, we actually had people applying for the grad program in History at IUPUI whose combined scores were about as low as you could go without tripping the file 13 button. I walked in with my scores one day when the grad director and my soon-to-be thesis advisor (the former grad director) were looking through applications. They were talking about how bad the scores were and how low people must think their expectations were. I handed my thesis advisor my scores and he took a glance, smiled, and handed them to the grad director. The grad director looked at them, snorted, tossed them back to me and said, “You’re in.”
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Where did she get that mug
because I MUST HAVE ONE.
Dad and I bought it many years ago. No idea where.
But you can buy a similar one from me on Zazzle. Ah, Photoshop and Zazzle. 🙂
FWIW the original is a George Good Message Mug. I can find others but not that one. This thing must be 35 years old if it’s a day.
I completed my undergrad studies at Wabash — a pretty good school. I had a 3.8 gpa in history (my major). The first time I took my GREs in history I about cried. I went through 8 pages before I found a question I definately knew the answer to. At that time (1984) there were several different tests, and the one I got was almost all art and social history. There were questions about various paintings and I was to identify their artistic period.
I do not remember my scores exactly, but on the language logic part it was way over 700. The history part was around 500. I took it again and the test was political and military history and I scored over 700 that time around.
I was accepted at IU and Illinois for grad school, but by that time I was so sick of school I did not go.
The fact that only 2% of grads with a masters in history got a job had a little to do with it too!
I got something like a 450 in the history area test. I walked away with the impression that if I’d spent more time studying 20th C. American social history, I would have done a lot better. Sadly for me, my emphasis was American military and diplomatic history.
Actually I suspect that our experience was exactly the reason why our Grad department deprecated the GRE history test. It was not required for entrance. In fact they asked me why I bothered. (On the other hand they knew me and knew I had a 3.7 in my major walking in the door.)
Things have changed there and they may require it now, I have no idea.
If I had known that your school did not require GREs at the time, I might have a different career path now.
Probably not. There is a reason I have never continued my education (formally).
Oh it required GREs (verbal and math), just not the History area test.
And I opted out of academia for what I would imagine were similar reasons. I didn’t get the MA because I got hired by my current employer before I got around to writing a thesis. And I would have had to go elsewhere for the PhD anyway, as IU-PeoplesRepublicofBloomington looked down their noses at IU-Indianapolis MAs.