I bet you any amount of money your MFA program doesn't even bother with the math section.
My friend who just got her MFA (and who received full/majority funding for the degree to boot) told me she didn't study and in fact guessed her way through the entire math section. She thinks she got a 300. I am leaning towards taking the GRE sooner now, seeing how the scores are, not worrying and loving the bomb, and just focusing on other stuff. The writing sample, and of course as erin said the SOP (which by the way, they are going to suck, each college wants a different length and just slightly different prompts, damn them!) are really going to be the make-or-break elements of my application. That, and I'm gonna have bomb-ass letters of recommendation, I'm pretty sure.
I'll write you one, but it'll just be the lyrics to a great song and a dirty picture. Does quirky still go over well in MFA programs?
I sure hope so, as I expect admissions packets will drive me about as nutty as submissions have already done over the past three years and ever-increasing volumes of cover letters that I've sent out. Nutty? What do I mean, you wonder? Today I sent off a submission to a lit mag that said, "Tell us a little about your poems, and you, in your cover letter." So I said: "As for me, I confess I can confess nothing without breaching my lawyer/client confidentiality privilege. But I assure you, poems are not considered admissable as evidence in court, nor can they be used as proof of premediation or motive. The nonfiction genre is a sub-category, of course, of prose and prose only. Categorically speaking, poetry does not allow for or acknowledge 'facts' or 'truth.' Case law has established a firm precendent for the dismissal of poetry as inconstant, unrealiable, and basically unintelligible. Since there is no evidence, there cannot have been any crime. I am confident the charges will be thrown out with contempt by any reasonable judge, and luckily, the unreasonable ones are especially anti-verse. One claims that iambic pentameter causes her to break out in hives. That's all I'm at liberty to say at the moment, but my legal team and I are confident in a favorable outcome." LOLOL like what even Except it's kind of like, I have to do something slightly interesting to keep myself from just sucking all the ink out of a printer cartidge and throwing shredded poems in the air like confetti and calling every editor who's rejected me ever on their home line to cry. (Or just to keep myself going.)