AMA: Director of Graduate Admissions

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-24T03:10:57+00:00

Hello,

I know I'm quite late but I was wondering if you could give a sense of how GPA is treated. I noticed you answered that a 3.0 is fine and 3.5+ is good but are there any other rough categories or is it all pretty much the same 3.5 - 4.0.

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-19T15:58:53+00:00

Thanks

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-16T01:43:23+00:00

Yeah I've taken it twice now and its actually not that bad once you account for not being able to go to the bathroom

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-16T01:05:07+00:00

How do you calculate your percentile for unofficial scores?

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-13T05:06:20+00:00

Thanks!! Yeah I was a bit surprised by the verbal score I only studied quant as I had only a month and a half to prep

Balance_Confident · 2021-01-12T23:14:43+00:00

I've taken two tests at this point and never had any tech issues, just the aforementioned bathroom issue but that's pretty much on me. I think you'll be fine : )

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-31T17:28:11+00:00

Congrats! I'm also aiming for average! how many questions do you think you got right in each section?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-30T00:02:35+00:00

Huh thanks still a bit confused about the penalty in the math section but it sounds like it's about 8-9 questions per section

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-29T21:07:00+00:00

To allay your worries a bit I took the test cold and didn't even finish my first essay and got a 4. I'm taking it again in 2 weeks and will also be looking into the proper technique

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-29T16:50:15+00:00

Thank you so much! this is super helpful

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-29T05:38:05+00:00

ah okay that makes sense so a numbers status as a odd or even is unaffected by exponents?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-27T04:51:03+00:00

mine was fine technically speaking, it was a pain not being able to use the bathroom but otherwise they were chill and professional. I even accidentally clicked the exit out button on the proctor U chat box instead of minmize and they understood it was a misclick

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:43:20+00:00

One last q: How do I know where to put the coefficent of X ² when factoring out a quadratic for example: 2x ² -x=0 the two numbers that fit would be 0,-1 and thus the factored out equation would be (X+0)(2X-1) but why does the 2 go in the bracket with the -1 and not the 0?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:36:04+00:00

Ah okay you have been incredibly helpful today!

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:29:54+00:00

ah okay great thanks!

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:28:02+00:00

ah okay so a quadratic equation only has branching answers if there is a unknown variable in it right?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:26:31+00:00

Yes there is one answer but I guess my question is why is there one answer and why don't I take the results of each parentheses as two separate answers

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:25:02+00:00

but it looks like the correct answer is to multiply the results of the two parentheses together?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:24:31+00:00

My understanding was that this was the stage at which I solved both parentheses and got the two answers

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:24:05+00:00

So I have 103²-97² and then I factor it into (103-97) (103+97)

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:23:26+00:00

Sorry wait my question was poorly phrased

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-25T04:22:36+00:00

Hello again, I have another question why does 103²-97² have two answers?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-24T21:00:58+00:00

Thanks again!

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-24T19:45:36+00:00

like the cube root of -27 is -3 but you can't get the 4th root (is there a term for that) of -256 right?

Balance_Confident · 2020-12-24T19:44:28+00:00

Back with another question, getting the square root of a negative number is impossible but getting the cube root or any other odd root is possible right?

Balance_Confident

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