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I got the email this afternoon and I am still in shock... I'm so grateful for this community -- I wish the best of luck to all of you ❤️😭 School: University of Ottawa Type: MA-PhD in Clinical Psychology Acceptance/Waitlist/Rejection: Acceptance Type of Notification: Email from department Date Notified: Feb 22 DM for POI: Of course!

Accepted to Lakehead, 3rd time applying to clinical programs. To people that are applying for the first time, second time, third time - Keep persevering. Keep volunteering, gain research experience, put time into good mentoring relationships, build your CV, push for publications, work hard and don't despair. It's important to be honest about the fact that this is not an easy process and if it doesn't work out, your efforts are still great and this may just not be your year. Strength and guidance to everyone accepted and rejected this round.

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I GOT INTO SJCNY!!!!!!! I’M GOING TO COLLEGE. Brb I’m gonna go move my car and maybe cry happy tears a little bit.

Hi everyone, I don't know how to process emotions well and I am still in shock but I just received notice of my acceptance from Johns Hopkins into their Mental Health PhD program. For the past week I have been feeling so much anxiety waiting for their response to the point where each time I slept, I had a dream that I received a response (both good and bad) from them. I'm happy to say I can finally sleep in peace after this! Lol Anyways, before I tell the rest of my friends, I felt the need to come on here and share this news with you all. I just want you all to know how grateful I am to have

Just received an acceptance to the University of Oxford for a DPhil in Population Health! I'm shook! I was rejected for the past 3 years from numerous schools. KEEP PUSHING GUYS!

Ahhhhh super excited!! School: University of Victoria Concentration: Clinical Neuropsychology Type: MSc/PhD Date of acceptance: informal acceptance - Jan 29, 2020 Notified by: Personal e-mail from POI, said official offer should be received this week!

I just got a call from the program director for Government & Social Policy at Harvard letting me know I've been accepted! Really can't believe it, I had completely given up hope for this cycle.

I JUST GOT AN OFFER FROM USC WITH FELLOWSHIP AAAAH (still have to put it in the survey)

I just got accepted at Miami of Ohio (poetry)! My little ones and I just popped open the bottle of sparkling Welch's that has been sitting in the fridge door. I told them I got into an MFA and my daughter (3) ran to the fridge. I was really worried we weren't going to get to open it this year. SO GLAD to have an acceptance. I only applied to fully-funded programs that I'd be proud to attend, so this is big for me. I wanted to share the good news! (And check your email if you applied!)

This is my second time applying so I can definitely speak to these really good questions (all things I was wondering last year!) (1) I only applied to 3 schools last year and this year, I applied to 2/3 of the same supervisors - this year I was accepted to 1 and waitlisted to the other. I did reach out after I got the rejection letter and thanked them for their time, let them know I would apply next year (they encouraged this as well - I think most POIs do), and asked if there was anything in my application they thought I could improve upon. Specifically one POI wrote me back a very deta

School: University of Calgary Type: Clinical Psychology Masters/PhD Acceptance/Waitlist/Rejection: Acceptance Type of Notification: Email from POI (informal acceptance) Date Notified: 2/10/21 DM for POI: Yes ** will be accepting** School: University of Calgary Type: School and Applied Child Psychology (SACP) Acceptance/Waitlist/Rejection: Acceptance Type of Notification: Email from grad program admin Date Notified: 2/5/21 DM for POI: Yes

School: York Program: Clinical Psychology (Developmental) Date of invite: February 8 Date of interview: February 16 (with POI), February 26 (with department) Email invite directly from POI. So excited! This application season has been BRUTAL. Obviously not a sure thing but nice to have some hope again...had kind of given up this year. On my fourth year of applying...if this is what you want don't give up!

Just got my rejection from Brown's HSR program. This was expected as I wasn't interviewed. 3/4 rejections so far. The 4th will come soon, as I haven't been interviewed there. I'm going to need to regroup and re-strategize for next year's cycle. I've been working in maternal and child health space for 12 years, am a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, I graduated with my MPH from Johns Hopkins where I won an award for my capstone research project. I worked on monitoring and evaluation of global maternal and child health programs for a few years post-MPH, and for the last three years I've been

I received an official rejection from UCalgary for clinical psyc today, which I knew was coming as I did not advance to open house as well as my application was never forwarded to the PI I was hoping to work with (not core faculty). On the other hand - I received an offer of admission to the UCalgary SACP program last night, which I will be accepting and am very happy about!

I would like to give a huge thanks to everyone on this forum for being such a supportive group this year. This cycle has effectively ended for me, pending my MA application responses. I will be taking a break from this forum and come back around April to post my final results as I'm in the last leg of my master's (thesis defense soon 😱) and would like to focus on finishing on a strong note. If you would like to keep in touch beyond this forum, I'm pretty active on Twitter! DM me and I'll send my handle to you. Congratulations again to all those who have received offers in such

Officially rejected from UBC #bigthings #success #workhardplayhard 🥰🤩😍

I just received an offer from Johns Hopkins Epi program!!! I’m in shock!!!! It’s been a long journey!!!

In at Davis!!! My first English acceptance of this cycle. Really exciting and particularly validating since I was rejected from their program in my last app cycle. I'm so happy! Funding details to come, but it feels amazing to have multiple good offers on the table.

Hi Everyone, I haven’t posted here and have been avoiding forums because it makes my anxiety worse about the waiting. I wanted to share something I thought the other day and hope others find helpful during this waiting. I realized no matter what, a rejection from a school won’t define me or undo any of the wonderful things/work I’ve done or any of us have done. It’ll sting, it’ll be a disappointment, but it’ll be just fine in the end. We’ll all continue to do good work, create change, and help people, especially those most in need. The important thing to remember during this

I just want to say folks: it seems like we applied to public health PhD programs in the worst year to apply in a long time. That said, if you haven't/don't receive acceptances this year, this is not an accurate reflection of you or your application - it's an accurate reflection of how shitty this year was to apply. And if you've only received 1 acceptance, you should be so fucking proud of yourself. Take care everyone.

Got a Yale reject! Surprisingly not upset I won’t be waiting on anymore applications. I’ll be accepting USC’s offer!!

Anyone else getting this weird message on their pending applications or is it just me? Guessing this is a hint from the adcoms that I should refresh a few more times

Just a little bit late on here but .. School: University of Toronto Scarborough Type: Clinical Psychology MA Acceptance/Waitlist/Rejection: Acceptance Type of Notification: Official Email Date Notified: 2/5/21 ** very excited😅 will be accepting**

I got into my first MA program!!! I know most of y'all are PhD applicants, but this is so huge for me!! I got offered a teaching assistantship for two years!!!! This means I can move out of my parents house in August!!!!!!!

I'm in at Princeton - just received an email

Waitlisted at U Michigan for poetry!!!!

McSweeney's took my essay, y'all!! I'm so excited to see something that's not a rejection in my inbox!

I have heard back from all my schools, and will be accepting at UMass Amherst for CHE PhD. I have not yet confirmed this with the school. I am waiting to speak with my prospective mentor next week about the specifics of the fellowship I was awarded, so I have a better understanding of what I'm getting myself into financially. While not an "elite" school, it's a great fit for me as an arts-based researcher in Public Health and Arts in Health and I want to stay closer to home (New Jersey) because of some family matters. Nevertheless, I'm super excited! This was my first application cycle and onl

I appreciate how warm and encouraging folks in this forum are! Last year, I was devastated when I was rejected from Every.Single. Program that I applied to. I just wanted to share my experience with everyone, especially those who have not heard from any of the programs they applied to. After receiving all the rejections, I took some time to reflect on ways to improve my application while pursuing other public health opportunities that I was interested in. I ended up consulting for two local organizations in my country on some really cool projects. And fortunately for me, things picked up

Got accepted into the UC Irvine, Public Health PhD, Disease Prevention through an informal email from the admissions committee chair tonight. Had a group interview last Friday. It's a nice relief after hearing how tough it is. I was very worried. I am 44 year old classical musician with a decent performing and college teaching career, teen age kids and bills. A few years ago a I met a retired epi/biostatician from Johns Hopkins/Harvard selling some furniture on Facebook. We became friends and then he hired me for research. Never thought I would be doing this! I have th

Just received my acceptance to Washu! After a rough morning getting my rejection from Brown, this is quite quite quite exciting!

Well friends, I did not get the Welches ready quick enough. But in the back of my fridge there has been a single beer, leftover from a six pack given to me four years ago, on the day I quit my good job in insurance with not much more of a plan other than to focus on my life and writing. So upon receiving a FULLY-FUNDED OFFER last night I cracked that bish open and drained the final vestige of that life I once knew. And it was very, very good.

I just accepted to Tulane's SBPS PhD Program!!!

Got a yes from Hopkins (International Health, Human Nutrition) and I'm in SHOCK. It took me so long to even admit to myself that I liked the program (to avoid getting disappointed lol) so hearing back so positively is absolutely mind boggling. Eek!

Did OISE really need to send out a SURVEY right now in the middle of an application cycle... 😓 😅my heart literally drops everytime

Rejected from every program I applied to. And then... Stanford! Want to thank everyone on this forum! Your positivity kept me alive!

Sooo I noticed some people starting to post their stats and experience on here and I can anticipate some of us are going to start getting a little freaked out and even more nervous as deadlines for offers are going to start approaching soon. I just want to remind everyone to keep their heads up! Others having stellar GPAs or much more experience does not discount your hard work and dedication! I know it's so easy to start comparing your own stats against everyone else's but trust me when I say it does not help. I think it's great that so many people have come together to share in this experien

This cycle isn't over for me yet, but I just want to say how thankful I am for this little corner of gradcafe. You have been so positive and supportive, providing advice to others on how to strengthen applications, gain more theoretical/methods knowledge, and helping some nurse their rejection(s). I know gradcafe can sometimes be a bitter and anxiety-inducing space, but you've made it a wonderful part of my application journey this year -- thank you! ☺️

Oh absolutely! I have one waitlist so far but pretty much implied rejections from everywhere else with only three schools left to notify at this point (and one of those is Yale LOL). The things I tell myself every day to stave off mental despair and tears: -This cycle is competitive. Crazy competitive. Undergrads don't even have to deal with these percentage of acceptances when they're applying to Ivy Leagues, yet most of us have submitted applications to schools with acceptance rates of less than 5%. The fact that you're a strong enough scholar to even compete means that you're most like

Interview School: OISE Program: CCP Date of invite: Feb 1st, 2021 Date of interview: Over next few days

I'm a faculty member in a clinical PhD program and I appreciate that applicants have worked hard to get their information together and are motivated to join the field, but there are a couple of common problems: 1) lack of $$- petition your state legislatures and such to fund higher ed better. Even if we wanted to take 10 students in a year we wouldn't be able to pay them all tuition remissions/stipends and we don't have enough faculty to supervise them all without a revolt (PhD students do take a lot of work). If we had 15 faculty and funding for 10-15 students/year that would be a differ

Just got email from Lakehead POI and was accepted with funding!! I didn't apply to external funding as I discovered this POI after scholarship deadlines, so overall funding isn't that high for 1st year Masters. Would welcome any DMs and/or advice re: funding.

I only applied to one school because I'm looking for something pretty specific but I just got back a rejection that said, "We had a particularly strong group of applicants this year and your application, considered as a whole, was not as strong as some of the others we received." I have 2 dozen posters, a half dozen talks, four co-authored publications, 20 years clinical experience and this was not strong enough. DO NOT GIVE UP IF THIS IS NOT YOUR YEAR!!!

I was accepted to UNC's PhD in Epidemiology program! I can't believe it! DREAM SCHOOL!

I just got accepted to UC San Diego. I can't really explain how relieved and proud I feel. Last year was a nightmare and I got shut out of every single program, but this year, I published articles, gave more presentations and workshopped the living hell out of my SOP and it really paid off. I'm just beside myself with happiness.

In at UConn!! I'm genuinely so excited and especially after getting back to back rejections from Yale and Cornell, it's amazing to know I'll have somewhere to go!! Thank you to all of you for providing such a welcoming and thoughtful place on the internet!

I GOT INTO WUSTL OH MY GOSH

Just received my first notification--I'm on the wait-list for University of Oregon! There's so much I love about this program. Hoping that this means there is more good news to come. I'm glad my first notification isn't a rejection, because I've been a nervous wreck tbh

School: York Program: Clinical Psychology (Developmental) Date of invite: February 6th (Saturday! Wild!) Date of interview: February 11th DM for POI: Sure Im BUZZING. The invite was from my POI and mentioned that there's also an open house end of February.

School: York University Program: Clinical Psychology Interview type: Virtual Date of Invite: 2/3/2021 received an email inviting me to an interview and letting me know i've been shortlisted!