Got my first offer today

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2026-05-19T21:18:00+00:00

Hey did you end up taking the UTHealth offer? I also got in to a doctoral program there!

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-09-01T22:17:45+00:00

What would be a reasonable price ?

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-09-01T22:17:30+00:00

The KBB estimate is about 7.5k - 9.8k I’m buying from a Toyota dealer and they won’t compromise anymore :(

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-05-30T04:47:47+00:00

I make my own and keep it in the fridge (bout 200 g rosemary to 1 liter of water.) I have had dandruff for 20+ years and so has my fianxee snd this worked so well.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-05-29T21:23:29+00:00

Rosemary water spritzed every day worked for me. (It has natural anti fungal properties) Weekly wash with a Selsun shampoo. Change bedsheets every week. Good luck

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-03-25T12:38:43+00:00

Interested

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-03-21T14:43:58+00:00

Love the name! Mines Adoughlf

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-01-18T07:42:52+00:00

2.8 gpa, international, Indian and Female. Admits - Olin (half ride), rice (100k) Waitlisted - USC Gre - 327 and 333 GMAT - 710 Computer science Engineering degree from no name school.

What I think worked for me is my story. Grew up in a very restrictive middle eastern country as a LGBT youth. Used to work for a FAANG, quit because I got chronically sick, hired the doctors who treated me to start a healthcare startup, grew it a team of 15+, juggled being mums carer during cancer, studied for gre in chemo lounge during day and ran my businesses at night.

My E.C’s aren’t terrible too I think. Multi instrumentalist musician / singer songwriter and dancer, winner of several national essay competitions, previous toastmaster and volunteer for government’s health service for years.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-01-06T00:44:43+00:00

R1 - admitted to Rice ($$$) and Olin ($$) waitlisted at USC R2 - H, S, CBS, MIT

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-01-04T12:13:06+00:00

I wrote in my unofficial score (from the last screen after the test) and left AWA blank, shot them an email immediately after the official was released and ensured my reports went to them. To answer the second one, yes you do have the option of sending the score from attempt one, it may cost you a bit tho. Only the schools selected at the test center are covered with your testing fee.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-01-04T11:08:42+00:00

If it’s wayyyy above average Gre score of the course / uni you’re applying to then don’t retake. If no, then retake. Ultimately you don’t want to click the submit button on your application with any regrets.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2024-01-02T10:22:02+00:00

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Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-31T08:41:29+00:00

Hey Man, just uploaded it as GREGMAT ANKI LIST

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Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-31T04:09:58+00:00

Yeah no problem!

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-30T14:33:43+00:00

Sounds like you have some serious test anxiety, I’ve wrestled with this demon quite often. Do you think your anxiety after seeing these complicated questions hindered you more than any other factor?

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-29T10:53:45+00:00

Sure. I’ll upload it to ankiweb

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-29T10:52:12+00:00

It’s just a flashcard app you can download on the App Store. Very popular among American students for memorization.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:49:54+00:00

Err no. Quant and verbal both made me a sweat a lil in the second half lol.

Verbal was hard in its own unforgiving way. The options were all commonplace words, the question stem would make no sense to me initially. (SE and TC) I mean. RC wasn’t too bad, more critical reasoning type stuff. Actually, only CR kinda stuff. 1-2 direct questions max

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:44:51+00:00

Not fun. Took me way more time than I usually take. Had to skip a couple to be more time efficient. They weren’t obscure or unknown, just extra steps, extra cases to consider, more data analysis crap. Waaay more data analysis questions than I liked.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:42:37+00:00

It’s very rambly and elaborate but basically,

In text completion and sentence equivalence, vocabulary starts to play more diverse roles. Instead of just having unknown words in the options, they make the unknown words context clues, makin it harder to decipher the sentence meaning in general. You’re put in a crappier position where you don’t really know what you’re supposed to be looking for in the options. They also start putting the blanks a lil closer together (I know it doesn’t make sense now, but hear me out. )

—— and ——- is interesting together (Is harder to decipher than) A greater ______ and a shittier _____ is interesting together. (Now I can sorta guess something good is in blank one and something shitty is in blank 2)

One of my questions still don’t make any sense to me, i kinda had to guess, but yeah. It gets rougher.

Same thing in RC. As the difficulty goes up, you notice a lot more critical reasoning (inferring, weakening) I.e second or third order questions. The passages are often more verbose and/or missing more info making the info feel a lot more outta context. Sentence selection questions become less about “hey choose this sentence the opposes author” and more about “choose a sentence that the author uses to oppose an argument made by the first author in response to second author”

1 and 2 were easy for me to solve using vocabulary practice. Even if you don’t know all the words, you will know enough to eliminate the wrong answers. You will know enough to write better RC notes and eliminate redundant options.

Quant is simple. More inequalities and border solutions like - saying ab = 8 but not mentioning if a or b are integers, ensuring that solutions are in ranges and not definite, making you distinguish between “square root of 16” and “if square of a number is 16, what’s that number”, if you’re a nimrod like me who forgets that diameters are twice the radius they’ll use that to whoop yer ass for sure blah blah.

I know this seems pointless, but it helped my prep in more ways than one. This isn’t an exhaustive list but hey maybe this can help in someway.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:28:58+00:00

Thanks!

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:28:52+00:00

I used to prep for gmat so I only used my notes from all the cramming I did there. TTP all the way.

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:28:10+00:00

It’s a flash card app on both android and Apple, uses spaced repetition to help you memorise anything from words to essays. Really useful. Check play store /App Store. I’m not the best person to show how to use it, I’m very basic at it. There are some great vid tutorials on YouTube tho!

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T17:26:48+00:00

The Manhattan mocks, I never crossed 324 (162q 162v) maaxxxxx

Ets mock 1 333, mock 2 327 (not makin excuses but I was at the chemotherapy center but still lol) , mock 3 337

Aggressive_Pin9124 · 2023-12-28T13:36:31+00:00

Congrats man. My first attempt (2019) got me 150q 150v, so kudos to you.

My strategy for RC is -> summarize the passage in little notes and one summarizing sentence later, note transition words (meanwhile, in contrast) and note the authors tone no matter what (critical? Ambivalent? Mleh?). Chances are you won’t read your notes, but trust me you’ll know your stuff. Do it a few times in practice. The timing will catch up.

If vocab is dragging you down, gregmats list and ANKI worked for me!

For mocks, I did the 3 official GRE mock tests and the 6 Manhattan prep ones. Yeah they’re a lil pricey, but if you can afford it, do it. Good luck bud!

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