I am posting for my significant other (I am a Mechanical Engineering Student myself). She is a great student but got rejected from all her PHD programs. We are now going through the process of receiving Masters interviews and Acceptances and so far she is 3/3 of the 10 she has applied to. We are trying to prioritize finances for schools she should go interview at vs. asking to do interviews on the phone and figuring out what schools should be on her priority to go to overall. Keep in mind as we ask questions, her goal is to get a Phd in Clinical Psychology after her Masters.
The first question we have is, does it look better to attend a school who has a Clinical Phd program or better to attend a highly ranked Masters only school?
For example, she has applied to Farleigh Dickinson, and LIU - Brooklyn, ranked #125 and #139 respectively on US News for Clinical psychology, presumably for having clinical Phd programs. She has also applied to several Clinical Masters programs who don't necessarily show up on the US News ranking radar such as Western Carolina and Cal State Fullerton and she has also applied to highly competitive general psychology programs such as Villanova and Drexel (who, Drexel does have a PHD program).
I thank you in advance. We haven't had a lot of guidance out of her undergraduate program and I have been doing the best I can to help her in what has been a really stressful process.