Try not to get discouraged. I have a lot of respect for people like you. You made some pretty serious sacrifices for others in your life. Stay positive and write a killer diversity statement and hope for the best. You need to have an amazing charact…
6 months of solid heavy technical reading (the economist, academic journals etc) might improve your RC and cause you to break through that plateau, -10 / -15 on RC suggests deep issues though, it might take a while to fully correct.
Your average score in reading comprehension makes me think it is spilling into your LR section and causing you to get more questions wrong in this area. Usually the students with average RC scores get hit down by the curve breaker LR questions for t…
It is impossible to verify so it doesn't matter. Anyone can say they worked 40+ hours a week while studying or they started 15 clubs and learned how to walk on their hands and play 100 instruments. It doesn't matter, the top schools want raw intelli…