Piagetsky

Child clinical.

UNC-Charlotte has one. I'm in the lab if you have any questions.

Mashup of Piaget and Vygotsky for the child clinical psych major Fascinating on the debate between those two! I admire them both greatly. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2253943?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Division 53 through the APA (child and adolescent clinical) has a mentor program as well. I found one through there when I was still at community college and had no professors (doing research) to approach. Good luck!

That's great! Thanks for sharing!

Old study, but I sure hope adcoms are aware that older female students' performance on the GRE is not particularly indicative of their success in grad school. https://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-87-22-Swinton.pdf Abstract Data from 99 graduate department participants in the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Validity Study Service from 1983 through 1985 were analysed with an empirical Bayes regression model that allows each department's mean scores to influence that department's regression coefficients. To be included in the analysis, students had to have taken the GRE General Test on or after October 1981, when the analytical measure was revised. The major finding was a significant underprediction of first-year grade average for older females in all graduate fields. Although it had been predicted that they would do less well than younger students and about as well as males, they in fact earned considerably higher grades than all other groups. It is suggested that graduate admissions committees broaden efforts to identify nontraditional evidence of talent, motivation, and accomplishment in applicants from this group. The GRE data analysis shows that if a larger proportion of returning females were recruited and admitted, they would perform as well or better than currently enrolled younger students.

What would you do with a master's in criminology? In my experience, unless you're going the PhD route, options for this degree are slim unless you're in law enforcement.

For those of you who were accepted to PhD programs, can you tell me what kind of research experience you had?

Greaaaaaaaaat. I am told I look younger than I am, but compared to some of the other applicants, I'm sure I'm old as dirt. I get "I thought you were my age!" all the time. Um, no.

Might be a stupid question, but is DOB on a grad school app? I know it's not allowed on job applications.

Very inspiring. Please share, because my backup plan next year if I don't get in anywhere is to quit my current job and do exactly this. Not sure exactly how to go about it, though.

Well, at least they didn't do a John Hopkins and send out letters of acceptance to everyone who was rejected. I'd die. I'd just curl up in a ball and die. http://abcnews.go.com/US/johns-hopkins-sends-rejected-students-emails-error/story?id=27661709

Just curious, may I ask why? You're dying to come here; I'm dying to go there...What do you see as the advantages of coming to the US versus the programs in Canada?

Good tip! I will also need to work on F to C temperature conversion and the (very logical but totally unfamiliar) metric system. I've been to Canada at least four times and still have no idea how much I paid for gas. http://www.mohawkcollege.ca/Assets/Communications+Centre/Helpful+Facts+Sheets/Canadian+vs+American+Spelling.pdf

I was pleasantly surprised to see that number from UOttawa. I was sitting around searching and crunching the numbers for the schools not listed in the Insider's Guide last night. Doesn't mean my chances are any better, but with the exception of UofT's SCCP, all of the schools where I plan to apply were in the 5-10% range. I'd be curious to know how my international status factors in on that. Noor123 gave some good information about a spot or two for international applicants.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I plan to do all my apps in Canada because I'm dying to move there and it's the only immigration program I'd qualify for. As far as the stats/acceptance rates, depending on which American schools one might be applying to, those stats are actually pretty good. These are from 2011 I believe, but still gives you a good idea of what American school acceptance rates are like. It also seems there's a greater variance in quality as far as American schools. We've got some here that will accept anyone who can fog a mirror, and others like Yale and UNC-CH where it seems you'd be more likely to be struck by lightning and eaten by a bear at the same time than to actually get in. I know that UNC-CH gets around 600 apps per year. http://www.unc.edu/~mjp1970/Admissions%20Rates.pdf I don't know about the letter-writing process since I'm not there yet, but 10 apps is a recommended and common number here. I know that the Insider's Guide that a lot of us rely on heavily suggests 10, and some people do more. Has anyone here (American) received an offer from a Clinical Psych program in Canada? If so, how and how did you afford it? I'd like to know the answer to that as well!

I'm planning on applying in 2015, and I'm looking for information on the differences between expectations of US programs and Canadian programs. For example, I've seen the honors thesis mentioned much more for Canadian programs than for US programs. Is there anything else aside from the obvious (research experience, GPA, GRE, SOP, LORs) that Canadian programs are looking for? Right now, I have time to make adjustments if I need to, like seeking out clinical experience if it will help. Also, does anyone have any information on the CPA's mentorship program? http://www.cpa.ca/students/facultyrepresentatives

This thread is going to make me hyperventilate. Planning on doing my first apps in 2015, but I can't stop thinking about this.

You quite literally made my day . I have been under the impression that it's a long shot in the first place (child clinical psych) made even longer by the fact I plan to apply as an international student. Thanks for the clarification!!

Mandy P, I'm confused about something. Feel free to PM me, but I thought that most of those Canadian awards you mentioned (with the exception of OGS) are for citizens and permanent residents only. But you mentioned your home country. Did you already move to Canada? I'm in the States but would sell a kidney to be able to go to school in Canada, so I'm grasping at anything I see. Could you tell me about that?

Right? May I ask how you went about arranging that?

Has anyone ever done this at a convention just to kind of put a face with a name? I'm planning on going to the 2015 APA convention in Toronto. It would be worth it just to meet one or two people.

For the clinical program, I found this: STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS: Please append a maximum of one page single-spaced, in which you describe your research interests and how they relate to the potential thesis supervisors you have listed.

That video is completely hilarious! I am also an American student planning to do my apps in Canada. I know it's a long shot, but Canada or bust!

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this weekend. It was fantastic!