Varangian

So I just finished a Skype interview and I am literally shaking and on the verge of tears. I've had very bad luck with all my programs. This is the third year I'm applying to PhD programs. I can't do it again. Last year I was waitlisted and ultimately rejected from one of my top choice schools. This year with a better application and a professor interested in working with me (who even looked over my SOP beforehand) I was completely rejected! No waitlist. I'm still waiting to hear from 4 schools but who knows where that's going. So when I got this email from my Master's department about a new erasmus joint program in legal psychology I checked it out. It's this super interesting program that combines psychology, crime and law and it's hosted by 3 universities: U. Portsmouth, U Gothenburg (Sweden) and Maastrict U. (Netherlands). I had about a week to pick a topic from the list of options and write a "full" research proposal. They interviewed me today and I feel like I completely bombed the whole thing. Nervous as fu*k. Words did not translate from my brain to my mouth. And they want to know everything of course, how am I going to do this, where am I going to get the population to sample, what are all my independent and dependent variables... Granted I realize this should be relatively knowable information for a proposal but ..ehh...I had less than a week to do research and write the damn thing. I have the generalizations in my head about it but, isn't this the sorts of things I'm to figure out with the guidance of the professors? I'm sure they completely saw me flounder and screw everything up. I will find out in a week if I was accepted, waitlisted or rejected.

I am also still waiting on Maryland.

The only school that accepted me for this year was the University of New Haven. They are a private institution though and their program is only two years old. I'm having a hard time finding information about the program outside of the university itself. There is also no guarantee of funding. I don't know what to do. I started off in psych and half the programs I wanted to do were in psych. I started looking into criminal justice because of the possibilities with my area of interest overlapping to the areas of criminal justice. Maybe I should wait until next year and try again.

Just rejected off the MSU waitlist after a month and a half. When I spoke to the grad coordinator last week she said it was unlikely they were going to touch the waitlist because of how many acceptances they got. Can't say it doesn't sting.

I feel your pain NightGallery. I'm still waiting to hear from 3 schools! What is wrong with these departments?

I applied to 11. About average in Clinical Psych.

Women like her give feminism a bad name.

I am still waiting on 3 schools. Michigan State has me officially waitlisted, University of Illinois-Chicago ( I don't know what to think with them.) Some people already got rejects but I'm not one of them. Maybe waitlist? And University of New Haven, who I called yesterday and was told my application is still in review at the department. Le sigh. I applied to Penn State as well but for Crim. Got their rejection a while ago.

I am still waiting to hear from the University of Illinois at Chicago. I called them last week and they said they were still going through applications, though I saw on the results search that at least 1 person got an acceptance. I don't know what it means. It would be nice if it was some kind of unofficial waitlist, they told you you. Michigan State emailed me to tell me I'm waitlisted and I haven't heard back yet. People are waiting until last minute to make their decisions.