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  1. I've heard of some applicants successfully asking for their masters program deadlines to be extended, especially if the program would not be giving you financial support. It wouldn't hurt to ask, at least. I do think it's odd that a PhD program would tell you they would get back to you after April 15, though. Is it possible that they mean they will get back to you on whether you will get an offer to their masters-level track? Either way, good luck!
  2. Sure, though I'm going to skip some of the ones with smaller programs. Got into and later declined Kansas State and Old Dominion, got into and am considering Bowling Green and University of Illinois, rejected (99% sure but I haven't seen the rejection page other applicants have reported) at Minnesota, waitlisted at Michigan State and it sounds like maybe Akron as well. Every place I applied was to I/O PhD programs.
  3. Thanks a lot! I was fortunate enough to be able to get research experience while working full-time in my day job, so I could dedicate a lot of effort into preparing my application, which I know a lot of people who are full-time students or with other obligations are not able to do. Haha no, I am not that cruel! Four have been released "back into the wild" and one more is about to be, leaving me with three to decide between. Thanks so much for the info, that makes sense. There's nothing as fun as being waitlisted, lol.
  4. Has anyone heard anything from Akron besides the one person who reported a rejection on the results page? I got a call weeks ago to ask if I was still interested, but nothing since then.
  5. I can't help with funding or US schools questions, but my thoughts would be: Working on your GRE scores from those baseline scores would be high effort with low payoff, so I would skip that option. Three schools is not that many to apply to, especially in clinical. I would apply to more next year. Having a publication on your CV will help next year, as will your summer grant. So those will make you more competitive without you having to do anything different than what you've already planned. Is your psychology GPA good? Is your SOP targeted enough to each school? Does it talk about your research and clinical experience in terms of your responsibilities and how they make you an excellent candidate for this school in particular? Overall, I think the single biggest thing I would do is try to get at least one change in who is writing your recommendations, starting with the person you think is writing you the weakest letter.
  6. I declined my offers at Kansas State and Old Dominion. I hope this helps someone. And a note on anyone admitted to ODU and considering accepting: make sure you know your funding situation before you accept there! This year they accepted more students than they could offer funding to.
  7. I called them on Monday morning to ask if all acceptances/contacting of applicants had gone out for I/O, and the graduate secretary said they were still in the "middle of it all" and made it sound like it was not done by a long shot. Anyone who knows anything differently regarding Rice, please feel free to tell me or PM me.
  8. Oh okay, that's just how I asked the question and the graduate admissions person said "yes" so I guess she knew what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.
  9. I agree! I've heard a lot of places don't even start looking at submitted applications until January, and yet they have December 1st (or close to it) deadlines... Maybe in an attempt to keep application numbers down? Either way, it's annoying to be on the waiting end!
  10. University of Houston sent out at least some of their formal interview weekend emails a couple of weeks ago. Looking at your signature, Colorado State did as well, at about the same time. These are both interview weekends and not recruitment weekends.
  11. Just FYI to anyone who applied to Minnesota and hasn't heard back from them, I called them a few weeks ago and all interview invites had gone out and they don't keep a waitlist.
  12. I had a totally boring/normal 40 hours a week office job, and I was fortunate enough that they didn't mind if I went to my lab meeting for a couple hours a week (and make up the hours another day) so I could see everyone in the lab in person and beg for more research tasks to do. That was the only time I had to be on campus, unless I needed SPSS for something. Then I just worked on whatever I'd been assigned from the lab in the evenings/weekends, and it wasn't that bad. Definitely couldn't have done it while being an 80-hour-a-week investment banking job or anything, haha. Just something I wanted to mention, since a lot of the psych majors here probably wouldn't be a good fit for office jobs like that, but if you're in economics it might be a possibility to keep food on the table.
  13. 1) I majored in finance and read a college-level intro to psychology textbook cover to cover and got in the 90-something percentile. I did feel like it didn't prepare me for the neuroscience portion as well as it could, so I probably would have read more on that if I could go back and re-do it. 2) Clinical is known for being one of the hardest to get into. Obviously the higher score the better, but maybe 165/165 would be good targets? I knew getting a full-time research position would be next to impossible when I was going through this, so I got research experience through working a finance-related job full-time and volunteering (and then later was paid) at a research position on the side. Maybe you could do something similar. I would say in general that you need to have a compelling story why you got to the point where you have a masters degree in economics before you realized you wanted to do clinical/development psychology. I got asked that a lot, and I only have a bachelors in finance. They want to make sure you're not going to jump ship again and pursue a different career path in a few years. If you're serious though, I think it's definitely possible. I'm in a different psychology field (I/O), but I've gotten into four top-tier programs so far, including my top choice. Good luck!
  14. Rice's deadline was 1/15, surely that's way too early? Looks like notifications in previous years came around mid to late February.
  15. If the University of Minnesota I/O poster could PM me their POI and any other details on their acceptance process, I'd be very grateful!
  16. I don't know if it's like this for every professor, but it seemed like from my experience (and what my POI implied) that professors contact their shortlist independently but are encouraged by the department to move quickly to get students interested early on. I would think in a week or two if you still haven't heard anything from BGSU it would be reasonable to ask for a status update.
  17. Thanks for mentioning scores were out! I wasn't going to check until tomorrow. Before I knew my scores, I was hovering around 70th or 75th percentile on deciding whether or not to send to the places that said Psych GRE scores were optional. I think at the least for any of your schools that say the Psych GRE is recommended or strongly recommended, I would send it in. If you don't even though they're recommending it, they might be imagining you got like 50th percentile or below.
  18. Honestly, the way I've done it personally was waiting a year longer than I would have liked (like I'm suggesting you do), volunteering for research positions at a couple labs at the closest university, and taking 4-5 psychology classes. The number of credit hours required that I've seen for non-majors tends to be 12 or 15, so maybe plan for that? That's 4-5 classes you probably wish you didn't have to pay for since you already have a degree, but it's still cheaper than a non-funded masters. I wanted to skip the masters step too, and that's basically what I've done over the course of the past year and a half. My professors now are very encouraging at my doctoral program prospects (though I guess we'll see in the spring, haha). I think your topic of interest and music background are really cool (and will make a great intro for your personal statement), but you need actual research psychology experience for good PhD programs to pick you over a boring but more experienced person.
  19. As someone who is applying to grad school in psychology though my degree is in business, I can tell you (through searching for the relevant information for my own situation) that many programs require a minimum number of credit hours in psychology, and often the Psychology GRE for non-majors. Since you have neither of those things (and it's too late for the Psych GRE this year), as well as no research experience, I have a hard time believing you would be competitive.
  20. Haha, I've had those exact same thoughts. Maybe I should apply to 20 schools? Or 30?
  21. Let me just say, you guys are so great. Thanks so much for all the ideas. I will definitely be doing this, thank you! And congrats on getting into a Clinical program, I know those are insanely competitive! Fortunately one professor in the lab let me help with a baseline paper about 6 months ago, so I will at least be a middle author on that. If I'm lucky there might be a couple other papers I can help with before applying. All the data have already been claimed by the actual grad students in the program, so I don't think there's any way for me to do my own thing with it. That sounds like a really good idea, thanks for sharing it! I actually know hardly anything about the process of presenting at conferences. So it's possible they might accept me for something like that, even though it would be essentially an oral lit review and not a discussion of a new study? I laughed out loud at this. Thank you for the very good information, and being naive (hopefully endearingly) is why I come here to ask questions of the people who are in the industry. My background is in finance, and I have a lot of gaps in my academia-related knowledge.
  22. Hi all, I have been working as an RA for a professor at my local university in the I/O department. The experience has been great; however, she is the closest I could find to my research interests but they are still not that close, and no one else at the university or even in the metropolitan area has any closer research interests. Is there any way I can produce something that would be valuable to the admissions committee that doesn't involve funding and studies? I would like to produce some sort of evidence that I really am interested in the topics I am (primarily goal-setting and motivation). I am happy to do a lit review or anything like that, but I'm not sure where to go from there. Will any journal actually publish a mere post-bac's lit review? Any other suggestions? THANK YOU for any and all help.
  23. Thanks to both of you for the tips! I'll look by "cited by" and search for labs as well.
  24. Thanks a lot for the suggestions! I've been searching by published research, but I will see what a Google .edu search offers.
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