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I realize my post may have seemed snippish, and if so, I certainly apologize with great embarrassmen. Like I said, your research experience looks awesome, and I think you'll do very well!

Look at funded programs, such as: -Wake Forest -William and Mary -Mt. Holyoke -Montana State -South Alabama

H, Your experience should look quite good. Don't worry about it. And for the record, I have been involved, often very heavily, in project conceptualization, etc. Just saying.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I've started contacting potential POIs based on research interests and inquiring if they will b e taking students, if they would be interested in my particular research focus, etc. I was also offered authorship on a coupleof disability psych publications that we will be submitting this summer, so hopefully that will help. I think I can make a good connection in my PS regarding my orginal training in multicultural psych (esp. the educational aspect) and how that goes with my interest and transition into school psych and disability psych, though I guess the programs are the ultimate judge of "good."

Hi all, I'm a rising college senior, applying to School Psychology programs next year, primarily PhD/PsyD (and some EdS programs as well). Majors: Psychology, Social Work Minor: Biology GPA: 3.78 (~3.95 in psych [1 B]) GRE: 1250 (660 Q, 590 V) Research experience (represents totals at application time, not counting the last semester of undergrad): -6 semesters biomedical (psychopharm development) research -2 semesters in a multicultural psych lab, 2 more semesters working on an honors thesis in multicultural/education psych [hoping to have it defended by the time apps are due, prospectus defended in Feburary but recruitment may take a while] -3 semesters (hopefully) in a neuropsych lab, running participants -Honors thesis in Substance Abuse tx (will defend early this fall, have all my data collected, entered, and partially analyzed), presented a poster on my preliminary data that won our Undergraduate Research Conference -2 semesters in parenting/child psych research, possible independent study in this -2 semesters in DV research, probable poster out of this -More than one year (starting December 2008) as a paid RA in a disability/violence lab, hopefully publication(s?)s and maybe posters out of this -Honors thesis in disability/school psych, hopefully done this coming semester [will be defending prospectus this summer, planning to start data collection in Fall] -PI/lead author on a major project in disability/education psych , aiming for major conference submission in November and manuscript submission in January Teaching experience: -3 semesters as a TA/student mentor for Intro to Honors (classroom management, guest lecturing, designing and grading assignments, etc.) -one semester as a TA for intro to psych (running lab sections, grading quizzes) -two years as a paid instructor for a seminar for psych internship students -one semester teaching a social science freshman experience seminar (paid but not much ) Clinical/child experience: -two years doing substance misuse group psychoed/therapy(ish) groups for college students -one year (at application time) of volunteering at a children's science center (will also be doing this for part of my summer) -partial summer of volunteering at a preschool for children with behavioral issues and (hopefully) volunteering with children at science daycamps -year-long practicum at student disability services next year -intermittent volunteering with a transitional home for children since freshman year as part of a service club (can't decide whether to put this on my CV or not) I want to research the academic and social/social-cognitive aspects of disability, primarily physical disability, particularly resilience, social and academic adaptation/accommodation, and intervention within this population. I also apply a sort of multicultural lense to disability work, which is par for course in my lab, and goes well with my background in multicultural psych. My biggest concern right now is that I don't have any publications or national presentations, though I'm hoping that some may come to fruitation this next semester. (I'm officially an author on a lit review we're doing this summer and another paper, but of course, they have to be written/accepted/etc.). Any thoughts? Thanks!