HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mpv@ecl.psu.edu (Mike Rivkind)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:00:51 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University

> 
>     My question is:  have any of you had such an experience?  like score
>> 350 points on an ETS exam than the previous time you took it.  What
> happened?  
>
(stuff deleted)
> 
>     Any comments on this??  
> 

Wouldn't it be perfectly possible for someone to accidentally skip over a
question without seeing it?  All of his answers after that question would
be marked next to the wrong question number.  If for some reason he
doesn't finish the section, he would never know he did it.  Depending
on how far along this happens in a section, this could cause a dramatic
decrease in score.

-- 

Mike Rivkind
mpv@ecl.psu.edu
Graduate Department of Aero Engg
Penn State University

"Quantum mechanics is stranger than science fiction." -- Gary Zukav
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From: aaron@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I.)
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.40    
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:50:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.221741.13916@spool.cs.wisc.edu
> 
>    My question is:  have any of you had such an experience?  like score
>> 350 points on an ETS exam than the previous time you took it.  What
>happened?  Did they release your score, or offered to give you a full
>refund.  Does ETS has this rule that one's score shall not be released if
>(s)he scored 350 points lower the previous time?  
> 
>    If they do have this rule, is there a time limit?  I'd think it's
>perfectly possible for one's score to jump > 350 points after > 1 year. 
> 
>    Any comments on this??  
> 
>

I find this very interesting because my wife teaches SAT, GRE, etc. classes.
I know that she has had students who increased their scores by >350 points,
at least when taking practice tests (i.e. real tests from past years).  I
remember one girl in particular who went from something like 900 to 1450.  
While this isn't necessarily the same as actual test results, these students 
nonetheless showed improvement comparable to what you are talking about.
I think one thing these students had in common was test fear or some other
test-taking problem.  Their first test wasn't really indicative of their 
ability and they were able to improve remarkably with instruction and 
practice.  

If I had gotten a low SAT score, then paid a large sum of money for a class
and improved my score by 400 or so points, I would be extremely unhappy at
ETS for not reporting my new result.  I wonder if ETS would go ahead and
report the score if someone explained that they had improved because of 
an SAT class?

aaron packman
From: sampath@newark.njit.edu (Sam Sampath)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo,soc.collge
Subject: Information wanted on Textile Technology programs
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:52:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


  Hi,

     Could you please send me some information about undergraduate/graduate
     programs in Textile technology here in the United States? Also,
     I would like to know about your experience/comments with Philadelphia
     Textile Technology school at Pennsylvania. I'll summarize. Thanks 
     for your time.

             -- sampath        sampath@cis.njit.edu
From: Isabelle.Marie-Anne.Rosso@dartmouth.edu (Isabelle Marie-Anne 
 Rosso)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Request for info about Biology Graduate School
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:22:55 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Hello, 
        I am a third year Biology major. At the end of next year I will
receive a B.A in Biology, having taken eight Biology courses, some
Psychology and General Chemistry.
        I think that I might do some graduate studies a few years from
now (although I am not yet sure).  My question is: should I take
Physics and/or Organic Chemistry to be elegible for graduate schools in
Biology? (Endocrinology, Neurobiology, Physiology etc...)?   I'm really
not to fond of chemistry and physics which is why I've been
concentrating on Biology courses, but I don't want to be barred from
graduate schools later... 


Isabelle.Rosso@Dartmouth.edu
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From: jamalin@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Nadeem Jamali)
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:23:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.192103.29614@Princeton.EDU> redding@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Lee Redding) writes:
>My math and verbal scores went up a combined 250 points from my early
>self-tests to the actual exam, and I wasn't even in a Kaplan-like  
>program.  I certainly think a 350 point gain is possible.  
>
>  --Lee

My GRE scores improved by a total of 360 points in 6 months. I don't even
know what a Kaplan-like program is like :)

Jamali
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: dwv@cs.brown.edu (David W. Vorbrich)
Subject: Re: Dissertaion Proposal in Computer Science
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: northamerica
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:36:58 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.152633.10910@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umkeahey@ccu.umanitoba.ca (YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
|> In <1992Apr13.183639.30519@mcs.kent.edu> rayes@Snake.mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes) writes:
|> 
|> >I am in the process of writing my dissertation proposal
|> >in the area of computer Science. Does any one out there
|> >know of any source (book, article, ..etc) that can be useful.
|> 
|> A book on Computer Science, eh? I hardly know where to start. Try searching
|> your card catalog for the subjects: computer, algorithm, programming,
|> logic, automata, languages, artificial intelligence, networks, graph theory,
|> combinatorics, philosophy, psychology, databases, operating systems,
|> compilers, encryption, graphics, computer aided design, computer aided
|> manufacturing, communications, algebra, expert systems, neural nets,
|> computer architecture, cybernetics, robotics, speech processing,
|> vision processing and of course computer science.
|> 
|> That should give you a few sources to get started with. Good luck
|> on your dissertation.
|> -- 
|>   Alan Keahey     umkeahey@ccu.umanitoba.ca     (0x42<<1) || !(0x42<<1)

I believe the request is for a book on write dissertation proposals... not
for the actual subject for the dissertation.  I'm sure that the same response,
"Look up things like writing, presentations, dissertations, etc" would be
in order, but perhaps people on the net have used references on writing clear
proposals which they could recommend to Mohamed (I believe the originator of
the request).

-David V.
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: fuy@spot.Colorado.EDU (FU YUE)
Subject: Info Sci as a Soc Sci/U of Paris II
Summary: What grad programs?/difficulty at paris?
Keywords: information, social, sciences, graduate, Paris
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:15:34 GMT


I'm interested in any information on grad programs
in information science when taught as a social science.

This is how (I believe) the Univ of Paris II 's program
is set up(?) but I don't know of any such programs in north america

How difficult is it to get accepted to the U of Paris II
for a yank with rusty, but workable french?

Does anyone know of any such programs in the US (west if possible), or
other parts of the world where english or french is spoken?

Thanks. You can reply to:
	fuy@spot.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: murphd2@aix.rpi.edu (Daniel James Murphy)
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:54:17 GMT

I don't recall the actual raw score, but after doing the Kaplan test
preparation, my GRE analytical score rose 60 percentile points (about
200 or so raw points).
-- 
*   Daniel J. Murphy                     |  Internet:  murphy@sunyit.edu   *
*   Communication & Humanities Dept.     |  Off. Tel:  (315) 792-7322      * 
*   SUNY Institute of Technology, Utica  |  Off. Hrs:  Tue & Thu 12-2 p.m. *
*   and PhD candidate, RPI Language, Literature, and Communication Dept.   *
From: redding@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Lee Redding)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:21:03 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

My math and verbal scores went up a combined 250 points from my early
self-tests to the actual exam, and I wasn't even in a Kaplan-like  
program.  I certainly think a 350 point gain is possible.  

  --Lee
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: CT.A81@forsythe.stanford.edu (lfribeiro)
Subject: USC vs. UCLA Film School
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:34:29 GMT

can anyone pass on information regarding the CRITICAL STUDIES
programs at BOTH USC and UCLA?  no end of information exists on
production, but very little on the new crti. studies.  my field of
interest is cultural studies.
reply to board or e-mail comly@acropolis.stanford.edu
thanks, lfr
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 23:47:59 MST
From: <CXHRW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: info on PhD programs in advertising

hi friends,

I am interested in PhD programs in advertising. If someone out there has any in
fo on some colleges with good program, I would be interested to have the inform
ation. Anyone who is now pursuing such program, Please take time to suggest abo
ut the various options open. I would be very thankful if somebody could help me

Thanks in advance

Ranganathan Madhusudan

Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 1992 16:11:17 -0400 
From: "Jon C. R. Bennett" <jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
	<6APR199202502614@juliet.caltech.edu>
Distribution: na

aaron@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I.) writes:
> If I had gotten a low SAT score, then paid a large sum of money for a class
> and improved my score by 400 or so points, I would be extremely unhappy at
> ETS for not reporting my new result.  I wonder if ETS would go ahead and
> report the score if someone explained that they had improved because of 
> an SAT class?

remember ETS claims that you cant improve your scores by taknig classes
that prepare you for it, its a religious issue to them.

jon
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From: CT.A81@forsythe.stanford.edu (Ann Bilodeau)
Subject: USC vs. UCLA Critical Studies
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:10:38 GMT

I'm about to begin grad school in fall in Film and Television -
CRITICAL STUDIES.  Can anyone give me a good comparison between the
programs at UCLA and USC?  There's always too much said about
production... but no one seems to have anything to say about
Crit.studies... My interests lie in cultural studies.  Reply.
to comly@acropolis.su.edu Thanks, Luisa F. Ribeiro
From: malik@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Graduate Assistantship at IIT, Chicago
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:20:25 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

The following (from soc.culture.indian) may be of interest to readers of this 
newsgroup also.

Malik
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Subject: GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP. COMPUTER VISION/IMAGE PRO
From: thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu (Raghunath K Rao)
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:35:24 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology


There is a graduate assistantship available for M.S/Ph.D candidates
for the Fall'92 semester in the Computer Vision and Neural Networks 
Lab, ECE Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. 

Current Research: 
1. Signal Representation using Wavelets
2. Pattern and Object Recognition
3. Image Compression
4. Probabilistic Models of Vision
5. Neural Networks for Image Representation and Recognition 

We are seeking only candidates with excellent qualifications.  
Interested candidates, please reply via EMAIL and send an ASCII resume 
to me at the following address : 

    thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu

IMPORTANT: GRE and TOEFL (where applicable) scores.



K. Raghunath Rao
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Subject: Re: Unbelievable Jump in GRE Score
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:02:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.221741.13916@spool.cs.wisc.edu> zack@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Zack Xu) writes:
>Hi, everyone!
>
>    First of all,
>	
>	is there a newsgroup for people to discuss issues regarding
>	standardized tests made by ETS (such as GRE, GMAT, LSAT) ?
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    On 3/25's Wall Street Journal, there's a front-page article about
>a case where a family sued ETS (Educational Testing Service which makes
>all the standardized exams, e.g. SAT, GRE, TOEFL).
>
>    Here's the story.  An high-school guy in New Jersey took his first
>SAT exam in May of 1990(?), he only got 660 as the combined (English and math)
>score.  Then he took SAT again in November, and he scored 400 more points,
>around 1050.  But ETS refused to release his score and suspected he
>somehow cheated the second time.  Their only reason for suspicion: it's
>not plausible for someone's score to jump 400 more points.  The newspaper
>also reported that every year there are about 100 people whose SAT scores
>are refused to be released due to a jump of 350 points or more.  For
>more details, please read the newspaper article.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    My question is:  have any of you had such an experience?  like score
>> 350 points on an ETS exam than the previous time you took it.  What
>happened?  Did they release your score, or offered to give you a full
>refund.  Does ETS has this rule that one's score shall not be released if
>(s)he scored 350 points lower the previous time?  
>
>    If they do have this rule, is there a time limit?  I'd think it's
>perfectly possible for one's score to jump > 350 points after > 1 year. 
>

This is utterly hilarious.  Conditions in the testing rooms are usually
so fascist that any cheating method that's going to be successful is prob-
ably going to be detected.

How do they take into account that the student may have been tripping LSD
the first time he wrote the SAT and thought that his bubble scan sheet was
melting in his hands or something?  

Ridiculous.  Admittedly a 3.5 standard deviation increase in score, 
considering the variation they usually admit to on those things, is pretty
unlikely, but it's more likely the result of bizarre conditions on the
first writing than it is enormous cheating, or a really good prep course...


-- 
 Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) | "Sic Gorgianus Allos Subjectatus Nunc."
 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
                  --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: FSU or UF students wanted!
From: gmiller@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 4 Apr 92 11:37:38 CST
Organization: University of Missouri-Kansas City

Looking for people going to FSU or UF to e-mail and get information from.
Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: ghajj@mozart.amd.com (Ghassan Hajj)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: EE grad school E-mail list
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:21:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: dvorak.1992Apr16.202141.808
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas


Hello there

I am looking for E-mail list of Electrical Engineering graduate schools.
any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: khadiri@carrot.mcs.anl.gov (Moe El-Khadiri)
Subject: Anybody from Boulder Colorado ?
Reply-To: khadiri@carrot.mcs.anl.gov (Moe El-Khadiri)
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 02:30:09 GMT

I am looking for info about housing/living in Boulder Colorado. I'll be
going to UC next Fall. Any info. I would appreciate it.

Thank you in advance,

                                        --- Moe
From: harburg@vistula.Colorado.EDU (Mark Harburg)
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
Subject: Universities of France
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:49:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: colorado.1992Apr13.154907.13457
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Originator: harburg@vistula

I'm trying to get some info that might help me to choose
and apply for a university in France.

I was wondering about the reletive difficulty of getting into
the University of Paris (2, 4, or 8), the university of Toulouse,
the university of Bordeaux 2, or the U of Grenoble.
-reletive to the modest U of Colorado.

This would be in the Information Science (or related dept).  Would
that make a difference?

Also it would be to get a Masters degree (Maitrise) which is in the 2e
or 3e cycle (i'm not sure which).  Is this easier or harder than entering
as an undergrad?

Thanks for this info, and any other that you have.

Mark Harburg
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: rayes@Snake.mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes)
Subject: Dissertaion Proposal in Computer Science
Reply-To: rayes@mcs.kent.edu
Organization: Dept. of Math and Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:36:39 GMT

I am in the process of writing my dissertation proposal
in the area of computer Science. Does any one out there
know of any source (book, article, ..etc) that can be useful.
Please send your response to rayes@mcs.kent.edu
Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: mrobert@tuner.enet.dec.com (Madeleine D. Robert)
Subject: MSCE Programs
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 10 APR 92 16:11:10    

Hi,

Do CMU and CalTech offer MSCE programs?  Recommend others?

Thanks...

Madeleine 
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: M15368@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Info wanted: Clinical Psych grad school
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:03:56 GMT

 
 
 
My daughter is hoping to go to grad school in Clinical Psychology.
She graduates in '93. Opinions on schools are solicited, particularly
Eastern state Universities.  Cost is an issue.
Please reply to silverma@mitre.org.
 
Thanks in advance
Steve Silverman
Newsgroups: soc.college.gradinfo
From: gary@rocker.ingr.com (Gary Braswell)
Subject: Re: UVA, Charlottesville
Reply-To: gary@rocker.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:17:45 GMT

> 
> 
> Anybody there in Charlottesville?  I've been accepted to the grad program  
> in the department of English, and will be moving there in August.  I'm  
> just looking for info on the town, the English program, etc.  E-mail me if  
> you want, or just post, I'm easy.
> 
> matthew in meadville
> 


	I don't know anything about the English Dept., but UVA ranks right
	up there with The University of Georgia in Athens as one of the
	most *BEAUTIFUL* campuses/towns I have ever been in!!  I get off
	on visiting universities when I am in close proximity to one, so
	I've seen quite a few.  I went just a few miles west of there to
	go back-packing for a weekend, when I was working at NASA-Langley.
	I *certainly* recommend that!  Get a mountain bike, if you've got
	the $$.  Also, if you are into alternative rock, they have a pretty
	good scene there, as well.  Mostly East-Coast, Athens-based groups,
	but occasionally a few West Coast bands stray into the area.  I
	think Camper Van Beethoven went there once...

	They also have some program out there that allows professors to
	live with graduate students in a really old dorm, or something.  I
	remember somebody mentioning it to me when I was out there.  Sounds
	cool, if you're single, and your prof isn't a dork.  I imagine that
	something like that could help you learn more about your profession
	than 100 classes...

	Good luck.  UVA seems like an *AWESOME* school.  I'm sure you'll
	love it!

	Later,

	Gary B.
From: wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik)
Subject: Re: Frats at Notre Dame
Organization: Ministry of Propaganda
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.000043.26684@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.180442.9747@news.nd.edu> smaurer@artin.helios.nd.edu (sean maurer) writes:
>>BTW We have no frats here at ND and I personally think that is a shame.
>
>Well, maybe if you wanted frats you should have gone to a school with frats.
>
>Me, I wanted a school without frats, and went to one, but the frats came
>to me.

Actually, they came to people who wanted to join.  What they did to you is
unclear.  Chances are, unless you actually sought contact with them, they left
you completely alone.  I'll bet they even ignored you completely.

Maybe that's your problem.

Mw

-- 
..............................................................................
Mike Wasylik.......................................wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
......................First do it, then say it................................
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From: rone@corvus.usc.edu (Ron A. Echeverri)
Newsgroups: soc.college,talk.rape
Subject: Re: fraternities
Date: 14 Apr 1992 13:37:13 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: corvus.usc.edu

In article <1992Apr14.165918.10584@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <cdukYxq00WB9MxSnpE@andrew.cmu.edu> es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg) writes:
>>1) If one individiual chapter does indeed have a penchant for
>>committing rape, this does not imply that any other chapter (even of
>>the same fraternity) does as well.
>>2) If a Greek system as a whole has a penchant to commit rape, this
>>does not imply that Greek systems everywhere do as well.
>>3) If several Greek systems have penchants to commit rape, this does
>>not imply that all Greek systems do.

>By this standard, cigarette smoking doesn't cause lung cancer, either.


It doesn't. EXCESSIVE cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.


-- 
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From: kds@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Kevin Strietzel)
Newsgroups: soc.college,alt.cult-movies,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Steam Tunnels
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:55:09 GMT
Followup-To: soc.college
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

Northern Arizona University (where I'm posting from, though I'm not
actually there) has steam tunnels.  Back in my undergrad days the
tunnel roofs (aka *sidewalks*) were caving in.  Alas, I never got to
see one fall.  I was never in one, and I don't remember the penalty for
those they caught.

Kevin
-- 
Kevin Strietzel
kds@naucse.cse.nau.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
From: june@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Karyn Lynn)
Subject: Re: A simple question about Miami (Ohio)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 13 Apr 1992 14:08 EST  

In article <13APR199211313819@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham) writes...
>Does Miami offer any engineering programs?  Thanks to any who can answer.
> 
>RG

As I recall (and since I graduated two years ago, things may have changed), 
Miami does offer engineering in conjunction with other universities 
(e.g. CWRU, Akron U...).  The information number at Miami is (513) 529-1809
if you want to call for more info.

Hope this helps,

Karyn