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  1. Not without outing people who may be on this forum. But let's just say yes how you act or your idiosyncrasies does not reflect on your capacity to perform but it will reflect on how you and your potential mentor, cohort, and other faculty may get along. It's like a 5 year marriage with a person. So personality traits and things of that sort matter although it does not say oh this person isn't qualified for the program. It says oh well I'm not sure I can be around this person for the next 5 years on such an intimate basis. You work with this one person very closely and first impressions have a great impact. And things will get back to your potential mentor which may sway his or her decision.
  2. From the other side of the situation as a first year graduate student who had to interview prospective students this past month, the interview process is very important. Be very aware that interview day is the day you are on your best behavior. That means no talking bad about anyone, no acting like you're the best, no smoking, etc. It is not the day to let your quirks or controllable idiosyncrasies come out. It shows and sometimes it comes out during the interview and might put you in a different category than the person who didn't have those weird quirks or do the weird thing around the grad students. It's one day! Also know your research interests and have some knowledge of what you are talking about. It's not only important that your research interests match your mentor but it also has to make sense and not sound like you made it up on the spot. Please practice practice practice!!! Because when you make things up on the spot it sounds weird. I never understood until I had to do the interviewing how weird it sounds. I think that would be my advice for anyone who may have gotten rejected this cycle and these two things may be your issue. It's not anything you can't fix.
  3. I think it's not true to say that GRE scores play little role in the admissions process.
  4. Who's headed to Rutgers clinical psych interview day tomorrow Or the alternate next week. Or Social Psych's interview day next Friday? If you are see ya next friday! Congrats. Relax. Practice. And tell them you will accept if offered.
  5. Happy New Year guys, good luck with all your applicatons this year. My email is sj534@rutgers.edu or my personal stevenjermainejones@gmail.com and I am a first year student at Rutgers University. I made an offer to help earlier this year and got swamped in my first semester but if you have any questions about my interview process or otherwise please do not hesitate to email.
  6. Unclear about counseling per say but my institution right now covers five years but the funding is a mix of fellowship/ta/and ga. The other schools I applied and got acceptances to only guaranteed first year but said all their graduate students had received full 5 years of funding. So I guess it depends on the school. Definitely ask your PIs as they will have the inside track on funding.
  7. You'll be fine. I was fine. Just make sure you have everything else in order. PM if you want specifics.
  8. I am with VulpesZerda. I got a few acceptances also and would love to help any person in need or just want to chat about the process. PM away. I'm at Rutgers University if that matters.
  9. I had no pubs and got into three programs. But it def. would not hurt your application. Make sure the top five things are in order and apply to more than one program. I applied to ten. Some of my other successful friends applied to six, seven, and twelve. You have to increase your odds of getting in. If you need any more advice you can pm.
  10. Incomming Social Psychology PhD. Hello all.
  11. I agree with all that has been said above. See if you can get into a research program over your break, may be too late but you could volunteer in a lab in your area. IMO research experience is very important. Also the recommendation letters you can get from those experiences which will speak to your ability to do research etc is very important. Fit is also another important factor, so start networking and speaking to professors early. Have informational interviews with some of your potential POIs if at all possible (Email, phone call, etc). I had coffee with one of mine (he lived in the area). it's competitve and there is a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time involved. Just try and make sure everything else is in place so that you can be the recipient of that luck without worrying about anything else. Best of luck, Steven
  12. For me, my final gpa at my current school probally helped but I also had many years of research experience. In my opinion your overall package is more important than one specific thing. Sure your gpa and gre will be used for "weeding out" at highly ranked programs due to large number of applications. But that shouldn't stop you from applying. If your applicaton is strong in other areas (recommendation letters, GRE scores, research experience, conferences, etc.) you can still get into a school. I got into three, it's possible.
  13. I will be attending Rutgers University New brunswick - Social Psychology PhD Program
  14. Got accepted off the waitlist yesterday... although I already got accepted by my top choice but just letting people know its possible... 4/8/15 at 10am in the morning is when I got the email. I'm assuming someone else off the waitlist will get the acceptance I will now reject.
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