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22 May 2013, 7:06 pm

Well, I'm mailing off my application for GRE Accommodations today. Boy is this stressful. I have pages and pages of documentation, but I'm terrified they will think it's not enough and will send it back for more.
I don't have time for more. I need to take the GRE this fall. But I have so much proof of my disabilities that my psychologist is sure that I won't have any trouble.

I'm also scared that I will look too smart to have such issues. I come across as highly competent and intelligent, but I really work hard to pull all that off.

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23 May 2013, 1:09 am

GRE Graduate Record Examination
GRE Greek
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GRE Glass Reinforced Epoxy
GRE Gradient Echo (magnetic resonance)
GRE Graphics Engine
GRE Glucocorticoid Response Element
GRE Gradient-Recalled-Echo
GRE Gecko Runtime Environment (Mozilla browser)
GRE Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococci
GRE Guardian Royal Exchange (insurance)
GRE Grass Roots Effort
GRE Government Reporting Entity
GRE General Research of Electronics, Inc
GRE Graphite Epoxy
GRE Groupe de Redéploiement Economique (Liège, Belgium)
GRE Ground Runup Enclosure
GRE Guest Relations Executive (hotel industry)
GRE Getting Rid of Everything
GRE Generalized Ray Expansion (cavity analysis method)
GRE Gamma Ray Explorer
GRE Gas Release Event
GRE GTK+ Runtime Environment
GRE Greco Research Engineering Company, Inc.
GRE Ground Reconnaissance Equipment
GRE Guardrail Enhancements
GRE Gender, Race and Ethnicity
GRE Graphics Rendering Engine (software)

Gosh I wish folks would spell the words instead of using acronyms. How do you expect us to understand what you're referring to?

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23 May 2013, 2:25 am

EstherJ wrote:

You're catastrophizing. What do they usually give accommodations for? Things like ADHD. Asperger's/NLD is more serious. I'm sure you'll be fine. If not, there are multiple dates during which you can take it during the fall, so you can always fix the problem then.

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23 May 2013, 11:15 am

I work with GRE (graduate records exam) as long as you have good documentation you should be fine.

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24 May 2013, 6:12 pm

thewhitrbbit wrote:

I work with GRE (graduate records exam) as long as you have good documentation you should be fine.

Define "good."

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24 May 2013, 6:13 pm

Tyri0n wrote:

EstherJ wrote:

You know me too well. And I find it entertaining how you group Asperger's and NLD together.

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27 May 2013, 12:07 pm

At least your not showing up day of test asking for accommodations.

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27 May 2013, 11:34 pm

If it helps ease your anxiety, the GRE isn't a bad test at all, most of the stuff on it is basically high-school level (although the verbal section requires you to know definitions to words you've never heard and will never hear anywhere else, such as pugilistic)

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