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Amerz

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  • Birthday 09/05/1987

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    Sacramento
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
  • Program
    Psychology

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  1. Thanks guys it's so nice to have this forum, at least others know what you're going through! It was totally weird, and personally I would have preferred an email, because then I can sob in private lol. As it was I was sort of in a hurry to hang up once he said it - not that I was rude or anything, but I didn't have the emotional capacity at the time to try to make him feel better about the fact that he was rejecting me. Anyway, he did sound like he felt bad. I really like the guy, but he was right - it wasn't the right fit for either of us, in terms of research or work habits. But rejection still stings.
  2. Thanks everyone. He actually just called and I was rejected, but he wanted to say they liked my app, but there was someone else who was a better fit. Guess it was nice of him to call.
  3. I already had a Skype interview in Jan, followed by an in person interview in Feb. So I'm assuming this is the call to reject/accept/waitlist me. I'm just freaking out a little, the waiting is the worst part! :|
  4. I interviewed at a school (they flew me out and everything) then heard nothing for weeks. So I emailed my POI to basically ask if all decisions have been made. POI didnt respond for a week, then emailed me yesterday to say sorry for the delay, and will call me tomorrow. ?? Should I get my hopes up? It's so late in the game I'm thinking I'm just waitlisted at best... Wouldn't they have contacted me sooner?
  5. no, I dont know if it's just for the first year - I just noticed that the letter said it was for 2013-14 and didnt mention future support. You should call your POI and ask, they're usually happy to answer those questions. And Claremont has great research going on, so by all means accept if you're happy with the package.
  6. Also, for the record, I emailed a little with a POI, and then he stopped responding to me - until he called me for an interview 3 months later. He invited me to interview weekend, I spent large parts of the day with him - and he still doesn't respond to emails. So who knows.
  7. Or maybe it's more like POI A realized you were clicking with POI B, and wanted to back off - since he needs to find a good match as much as you do, and otherwise they'd have to fight over you. And since POI B doesn't have any students yet, it's likely he'd get first pick. As for the grad student - he's probably just busy. Or your email went to his spam box or something. I'm sure POI A and the grad student aren't sitting around talking about how much they dislike you, if that's what you're worried about I mean, unless you said something off-the-wall offensive, which I'll bet you didn't.
  8. I got accepted there, and have been getting weird vibes too. They offered me 75% tuition remission only, only garuanted for the first year.. No living stipend or anything. When I chatted to my POI, I asked about all the other types of funding that might be possible - RA, TA, external jobs etc. He said most students take out loans, and a limited few have teaching positions at nearby community colleges - but basically you're on your own. He said if he got an outside grant he would "definitely consider" putting me on it, but then it would depend ont he department, etc. The other option is to become a TA at CGU - but this is only something you can do after your first year there - because you can only TA for graduate courses, so you have to have taken the class, etc. Oh, and on the call he said I am the first of about 4 students "ever" to be offered as much at 75% - usually it is 25-50%. I was thinking, great, that still doesn't mean anything if I'm going to be in debt up to my eyeballs when I graduate. And it's only for the first year! What happens next year! Yeah, no thanks Really, really disappointed - really like my POI and his work. Unfortunately, everywhere else offers better funding.
  9. I agree with everything everyone else said, and add my *hug*. That's awful, and completely innapropriate and unprofessional of him to vent at you like that! Like Fuzzylogician said, focus on working closely with other people to get letters from them instead. Maybe you can even fall back on some of your old recommenders from the last round. And when you reapply somewhere, you'll definitely have a chance to explain that you dropped out for a mature reason etc, and this was the outcome. There's definitely a way to explain it with that positive spin. Good luck with everything!
  10. I'm in the same boat as mmocarr. I already accepted an interview at a school, but then my top choice invited me for the same weekend - I assume it's rude to cancel/reschedule with the school that is not my top choice?
  11. “We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
  12. I've been wondering the same thing. Had two interviews on 1/21, was invited to interview weekend for one of them just a few days later. Was told during the interview for the other school that if I was invited I'd hear by "the end of the week or early next week". So by my estimation that means.. now. I hate the waiting!!
  13. Could the person who had an interview from UC-Denver for Affect/Social PM me? I have info for Portland State Social/Community psych if anyone's interested. Thanks!
  14. This is true - I called one of the CSUs I was applying to and asked, and another one said it outright in their application materials. I just typed "sent directly to department" in the box.
  15. Be prepared with questions you want to ask them - this is probably the question I prepare for the most ("What questions do you have for me?"), because I want to sound like I'm familiar with their work, the university, the department, and what grad life entails in general. I've only had two interviews so far, but both of them lead with this question.
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