quantpsych

Thanks for your help:)

I'm going to apply for PhD in 2014 fall.I have a background in Math&Stat&Business,but more interested in Psychological&Behavioral research.Thus I finally decided to try some areas combining math and psychology together. MY PROFILE Undergrad: An asian university,one semester exchange in a well-known Canadian university Major: one year in Math,three years in Statistics Relevant Courses: Quant :Mathematical Analysis Ⅰ&Ⅱ,Advanced Algebra,Physics,Introductory Statistics, Probability&Mathematical Statistics,Operation Research, Multivariate Statistics,Non-parametric Statistics(gonna take), Categorical Data Analysis(gonna take),Sampling Method(gonna take) Psych : Cognitive,I/O,Consumer Psychology,Experiment Design and Methodology,Personality(gonna take),Educational(gonna take), Psychometric(gonna take) CS/Programming:Statistical Software(SAS&R),Database,Management Information System GPA: 3.4 / 4.0,so bad:( Research Experience:1.5 years RA for consumer psychology professor,0.5 year RA for marketing modeling,0.5 year RA in a consumer research lab(running several experiments),3 independent research projects(social psychology&cognitive psychology).Conducting data analysis using SPSS&R Work Experience:0.5 year in an actuarial company and 0.5 year in a market research company,both doing data analysis GRE: V540,Q800,A4.0, Gonna take it again. Research Interests:Longitudinal Data Analysis,SEM,Multi-level Model,Cognitive Modeling Some questions: 1.I decided to apply for quant psych programs while one of my professor suggested me turn to Educational Measurement which he thought have better job prospects.Is it true? 2.I'm also interested in Mathematical Modeling in Cognitive Psychology,but it seems there're not many programs doing this stuff? I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some relevant programs. 3.Due to my low GPA,what should I do to strengthen my profiles?Could profound research experience compensate my weakness in GPA?