I’m going to be applying to MA/PhD programs in the Humanities at schools of varying levels of prestige: mostly state schools whose programs are ranked in the top 30, along with a few schools like Northwestern and Berkeley that carry a little more cachet. That being said, my GRE scores are woefully less than stellar: 500 quantitative, 580 verbal
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From what I've heard repeatedly, test scores are really a rather unimportant part of a school's impression of a prospective student. I'd say that, in contrast to it looking potentially bad, your scores might just suggest that you're not good with standardized tests (and heck, your essay score is disproportionately higher compared to your multiple-choice-based scores anyway).
I can't really give much advice on the subject, but I'll say (take this with as many grains of salt as needed) that if you feel you'd do substantially better (e.g. at least a hundred points better), then go for it.
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I keep telling myself, "you broke 1000, be happy"..but I know I need to bring it up a bit to be competitive.
I just don't want to go through all the studying again and not do much better. But I feel like I have no choice.
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Are the tests still computer adaptive? Don't forget that if the questions seem really hard and you aren't doing well, that's actually a good thing because you are getting them right. The first time I took the GRE I thought I did really well, and the second time I was considering not even keeping my scores. I got to that screen, sat there for a minute or two, said **** it in my head, and I got the high score. It always freaks me out a little to remember back to that day and I wasn't going to keep those scores...
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