Am I in good shape for graduate school?
The best course for you is to geek out on this. Eat, sleep, and breathe graduate school applications. You may or may not be able to do undergrad research, especially if you haven’t talked to your advisor about it yet. A potentially more useful course of action *for the admission* would be to buy a study book for the GRE and for the Subject Test and study it until you know it cold. (When I took the English GRE, I basically read the Norton’s English and American Lit anthologies. Took about three months, and boy did it pay off.) You see, the GRE is horribly important for a number of reasons. It’s a better predictor of grad school success than the SATs. But the real value of a high GRE score is that GREs give the university a way to rank all applicants across all programs–which is almost always how the choice university-wide fellowships and assistantships get awarded. You shouldn’t just shoot to get in, but to get in and get paid for attending. This will save you money, but it will also g
