キャリアニュース2021年6月1～10日

The third time I took the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) was going to be my last, regardless of how I scored. I had long harbored dreams of pursuing a Ph.D., and I wanted to do well because the exam is key for admission to many U.S. graduate programs. But I couldn't afford to retake it, emotionally or financially. I was unemployed at the time and my partner and I were trying to get by on his postdoc salary. I'd taken the exam 7 years earlier, but my scores were so low I didn't even bother applying to Ph.D. programs. Now, I was giving it one more shot. > “I wonder what I'd be doing if the admissions committee had not overlooked my GRE scores.” I didn't know what standardized tests were until high school, when I immigrated from Colombia to the United States. I wanted to attend college so I took the American College Testing exam. Fortunately, my high school offered a free prep course and I managed to achieve good enough scores to get into college with financial aid. During my fir