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I've heard of some applicants successfully asking for their masters program deadlines to be extended, especially if the program would not be giving you financial support. It wouldn't hurt to ask, at least. I do think it's odd that a PhD program would tell you they would get back to you after April 15, though. Is it possible that they mean they will get back to you on whether you will get an offer to their masters-level track? Either way, good luck!

Sure, though I'm going to skip some of the ones with smaller programs. Got into and later declined Kansas State and Old Dominion, got into and am considering Bowling Green and University of Illinois, rejected (99% sure but I haven't seen the rejection page other applicants have reported) at Minnesota, waitlisted at Michigan State and it sounds like maybe Akron as well. Every place I applied was to I/O PhD programs.

Thanks a lot! I was fortunate enough to be able to get research experience while working full-time in my day job, so I could dedicate a lot of effort into preparing my application, which I know a lot of people who are full-time students or with other obligations are not able to do. Haha no, I am not that cruel! Four have been released "back into the wild" and one more is about to be, leaving me with three to decide between. Thanks so much for the info, that makes sense. There's nothing as fun as being waitlisted, lol.

Has anyone heard anything from Akron besides the one person who reported a rejection on the results page? I got a call weeks ago to ask if I was still interested, but nothing since then.

I can't help with funding or US schools questions, but my thoughts would be: Working on your GRE scores from those baseline scores would be high effort with low payoff, so I would skip that option. Three schools is not that many to apply to, especially in clinical. I would apply to more next year. Having a publication on your CV will help next year, as will your summer grant. So those will make you more competitive without you having to do anything different than what you've already planned. Is your psychology GPA good? Is your SOP targeted enough to each school? Does it talk about your research and clinical experience in terms of your responsibilities and how they make you an excellent candidate for this school in particular? Overall, I think the single biggest thing I would do is try to get at least one change in who is writing your recommendations, starting with the person you think is writing you the weakest letter.

I declined my offers at Kansas State and Old Dominion. I hope this helps someone. And a note on anyone admitted to ODU and considering accepting: make sure you know your funding situation before you accept there! This year they accepted more students than they could offer funding to.

I called them on Monday morning to ask if all acceptances/contacting of applicants had gone out for I/O, and the graduate secretary said they were still in the "middle of it all" and made it sound like it was not done by a long shot. Anyone who knows anything differently regarding Rice, please feel free to tell me or PM me.

Oh okay, that's just how I asked the question and the graduate admissions person said "yes" so I guess she knew what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.

I agree! I've heard a lot of places don't even start looking at submitted applications until January, and yet they have December 1st (or close to it) deadlines... Maybe in an attempt to keep application numbers down? Either way, it's annoying to be on the waiting end!

University of Houston sent out at least some of their formal interview weekend emails a couple of weeks ago. Looking at your signature, Colorado State did as well, at about the same time. These are both interview weekends and not recruitment weekends.

Just FYI to anyone who applied to Minnesota and hasn't heard back from them, I called them a few weeks ago and all interview invites had gone out and they don't keep a waitlist.

I had a totally boring/normal 40 hours a week office job, and I was fortunate enough that they didn't mind if I went to my lab meeting for a couple hours a week (and make up the hours another day) so I could see everyone in the lab in person and beg for more research tasks to do. That was the only time I had to be on campus, unless I needed SPSS for something. Then I just worked on whatever I'd been assigned from the lab in the evenings/weekends, and it wasn't that bad. Definitely couldn't have done it while being an 80-hour-a-week investment banking job or anything, haha. Just something I wanted to mention, since a lot of the psych majors here probably wouldn't be a good fit for office jobs like that, but if you're in economics it might be a possibility to keep food on the table.

1) I majored in finance and read a college-level intro to psychology textbook cover to cover and got in the 90-something percentile. I did feel like it didn't prepare me for the neuroscience portion as well as it could, so I probably would have read more on that if I could go back and re-do it. 2) Clinical is known for being one of the hardest to get into. Obviously the higher score the better, but maybe 165/165 would be good targets? I knew getting a full-time research position would be next to impossible when I was going through this, so I got research experience through working a finance-related job full-time and volunteering (and then later was paid) at a research position on the side. Maybe you could do something similar. I would say in general that you need to have a compelling story why you got to the point where you have a masters degree in economics before you realized you wanted to do clinical/development psychology. I got asked that a lot, and I only have a bachelors in finance. They want to make sure you're not going to jump ship again and pursue a different career path in a few years. If you're serious though, I think it's definitely possible. I'm in a different psychology field (I/O), but I've gotten into four top-tier programs so far, including my top choice. Good luck!

Rice's deadline was 1/15, surely that's way too early? Looks like notifications in previous years came around mid to late February.