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You can save a lot of money if you opt to live in East Rock rather than downtown (where I'm assuming you're seeing those prices), even if you're unwilling to live with roommates. If you did live with roommates you could easily find a place for less than $700, maybe even more like $500 if you live further out. Without a roommate it might be more like $800, but even then I feel like you could find something lower. If you're attached to living downtown, Elm Campus Partners (the Yale-affiliated rental company) rents cheaper studios than the prices you've quoted and they are really well run. Having lived both places though, I'd actually recommend East Rock. If you're at FES downtown is not much closer and most of your class mates will probably be in East Rock. East Rock is also more pleasant/kind of a better introduction to New Haven on the whole. You could also live on Mansfield St. if you wanted to be closer to FES-- prices might be more like those of East Rock but it's a bit closer to downtown as well. Only issue is that it's right on the edge of the part of New Haven that you might not want to venture into if you can avoid it... All in all though, I think $28,000 is more than doable. I know lots of people who do it!

Oh and yeah, obviously the exception for everything I just said is if the programs you're interested in require particular courses and/or the psych GRE. (None of mine did so I forgot that sometimes happens.) If that's the case then feel free to ignore .

The advice I was always given (as a non-psych major) is that it is far more important to get research experience than to take more classes. Obviously, the more classes you're able to take, the better, but just thought I'd throw that out there in case they start to become a significant drain on your time/funds or you find yourself having to choose between another couple classes and a job as an RA. Surprisingly, I was also told that I didn't need to take the psych GRE (and so I didn't). I agree it sounds like a good thing to do though-- just, again, if you find yourself having to choose between studying for the psych GRE (which could take a LONG TIME it seems to me), and getting more research experience/studying harder for the general GRE, you might want to consider opting for the latter. If all these things sound counter-intuitive just know that it worked for me! Everyone's situation is different though. Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss in more detail.

Could the person who posted the rejection from Cornell today PM me? I would appreciate it. (And sorry to hear the news!)

Any chance you could share some of the old topics you found discussing this, in case more people don't chime in? I'm curious about this as well.

You might already have solved this with the rewording, but I wouldn't use "top choice" at all. Just saying you're excited is enough I think! They'll understand they're your top choice when/if you accept. I'm not so sure, however, they'll understand why you told them they were your top choice in the off-chance that you ultimately accept somewhere else. (If you already sent this though, don't worry about it!! I'm sure it's not a bit deal )

Thanks for the updates, everyone. Feel free to keep them coming!

Have any of you who posted to the results board heard anything since your interviews? Feel free to PM me if you don't feel like posting here!

I don't know about NYU, but Princeton held interviews for cognitive last weekend and my impression at least was that interviewing was a prerequisite to being admitted (though who knows for sure, and maybe there's a wait list that doesn't require in person interviews?). Really sorry to be the bearer of bad news...

Heyy was hoping to avoid posting to this thread for the second time today, but can't resist. Would the person who got the Cornell interview mind PMing me? Thanks!!

Could the person who just posted the acceptance to Michigan Social Psych PM me your POI and/or let me know whether this was your first time hearing anything from them? (Presumably they didn't have on-campus interviews if they're accepting this early?) Thanks and CONGRATS!!

Would those of you who have heard from NYU and/or Michigan mind PMing me your POI? Thanks!!

That's strange... I was invited to interview on the 11th for the social area. Maybe there are two waves of interviews and the admissions person you talked to was talking about the second?

That wasn't POI-related. Just a general question.

Would the person who posted about Cornell (social) today mind PMing me? Thanks!!