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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from MSW13 in Keep A Word Drop A Word   
    Soft goal

    AKA - James Reimer
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    SportPsych30 reacted to nugget in Finding a husband in graduate school.   
    If you are in a relationship with someone who is with you because he truly loves you for who you are and you truly love him for who he is, when and if you are both ready for marriage and decide to spend your lives together, odds are that you will be able to work out some sort of solution if you get job offers in different cities or states. ex: you turn down your offer, he turns his down, commuting, long distance relationship, etc....
     
    If you and your partner are more in love with the idea of being in a relationship and the benefits that go along with having a relationship (ex: commitment, financial stability, no more loneliness, regular sex, etc) more so than your actual love for each other, I have doubts this sort of sacrifice would happen. In this scenario, either one of you could be easily replaced and if someone finds a job in a different state it would make more sense to break up, move and find someone else.
     
    This is why I think it's important to have standards for a partner. Commit to someone you truly cherish and (eventually) couldn't imagine not spending the rest of your life with that one person, and marry someone who feels the same way about you. It takes time to figure all this stuff out and shouldn't be rushed. If you want to be happy for the long term, I wouldn't advise being with someone you like who's a decent match and would make a decent husband. All relationships have their ups and downs and if you both aren't with the one person you truly love and cherish, odds are that your relationship won't survive the challenges and obstacles that come your way.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to ihatechoosingusernames in Just wanna give a shout out to...   
    Vanderbilt University!
     
    They don't have application fees and they don't require official transcripts until after you've been accepted to your school. As someone who has 5 different schools to get transcripts from, I've saved almost $50, plus whatever they didn't charge me for app fees. 
     
    Anyone else have any schools they want to give a shout out to?
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    SportPsych30 reacted to lewin in Mentors/Professors   
    Top down and bottom up processes:
     
    1. Find good programs and look through their faculty websites.
     
    2. Find the people who are researching topics you like and see where they work.
     
    I would expect it matters for masters programs too, for the good ones anyway.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to Cesare in For those who have taken the GRE multiple times...   
    I had 3 quant and 2 verbal both times. They do not switch it up based on what you got before. It is completely randomized. 
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    SportPsych30 reacted to BeingThere in It's Personal Statement time   
    Here's an exercise that might help:
     
    Play a little game of mad libs with yourself.  Write out a few sentences that look like this:  
     
    "From my course in _________________, I found that I was interested in _________________." 
    "Assisting in the ______________ lab, I learned how to _________________."  
    "During grad school, the three things I want most to learn are ____________,___________, and ______________."
    "From working in ____________, I developed an interest in ________________."
    "The thing(s) I enjoyed most about __________________(course, lab, research), was ___________________."
     
    You can make more sentences like this and then fill them in.  Of course this is NOT how your statement will look or read.  This is just to get words on paper.  (You can even copy and paste these sentences into a text editor if you really are afraid of the blank page.)
     
    Don't worry about the grammar and writing eloquently.  That will come in your next drafts.  Just put nouns and verbs together now.
     
    Another huge thing that helped me break the ice with that first statement of purpose was to NOT start with the first paragraph or the first sentence of the statement.  I just wrote things down and re-ordered them later.  I didn't have my opening sentence until I had written a draft for a couple of different statements.
     
    And a third idea is to print out your prompt and go and talk to a friend about your interest in grad school and the Yale program and how your experience relates.  When you say something brilliant or cogent, make a note of it.  Then when you are alone at your laptop, take those notes to begin your statement with.  (I also did this and it helped quite a lot.)
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    SportPsych30 reacted to fuzzylogician in Very Rough Approximation of PhD Acceptance Probabilities   
    |resists urge to comment on the assumptions made here|.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to tcmazer in Very Rough Approximation of PhD Acceptance Probabilities   
    Just a fun (read: very rough guesstimate) way to determine how likely you are to get into at least one PhD program.   How I suggest using this graph:   Use P(5%) if GPA < 3.00, felony on record, or academic probation etc.   Use P(10%) if applying to mostly difficult to get in schools, or lower stats (GPA < 3.3, GRE percentages <60%) and no papers   Use P(20%) if applying to mostly middle of the road schools, with average stats (GPA ~= 3.5, GRE percentages ~= 75%)   Use P(30%) if applying to mostly "safety" schools, or if you have high stats (GPA >3.8, GRE percentages >90%) and several papers         And remember, these suggestions are very loosely based in reality.  Those interested in how I made it, I used the Bernoulli distribution: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_distribution)   Enjoy!
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from repentwalpurgis in i suck   
    I'll*
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from Cesare in i suck   
    I'll*
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    SportPsych30 reacted to powerlifterty16 in i suck   
    You may want to acquaint yourself with some basic social skills..so I wrote ''ill'' instead of ''i'll'', what kind of arsehole busts my chops for that? I'm sure you will be very successful as a psych phd HA.
     
    I am not publishing a book
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    SportPsych30 reacted to Lisa44201 in i suck   
    .......
     
    Yeah, your're not the only one who sees a lot of spelling errors. You may want to acquaint yourself with the shift key (quicker than hitting caps-lock) and the apostrophe, too.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to Cesare in Am I the GRE master?   
    If you haven't really "studied" for the test why would someone ask you for advice? Also, judging by the title of this thread, do you want us to call you the "GRE master?" No offense, you are coming off as someone with a big ego (something that will be crushed in graduate school). 
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    SportPsych30 reacted to fuzzylogician in University of Colorado at Boulder   
    Seems pretty standard to me. You give them an email address, they email the recommenders, the recommenders get a link to an online app where they can submit letters. Doesn't sounds particularly difficult for the recommenders, or much different from other apps. The main annoying thing is that you can't send the recommenders the letter prompt until after you submit the app, but that too is not out of the ordinary. I doubt it has anything to do with the payment, it's probably just how the system is set up. They'll start a file for you as soon as you start sending in materials (=could be before you submit the app), and the other stuff is kept online anyway.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to Lisa44201 in struggling with being patient   
    At this point you should have a spreadsheet typed out detailing which programs you're applying to, when the deadlines are, how they want the application (online vs mail), if there is a supplemental application for the psych department (varies), how your letter writers are supposed to submit their information (mail vs online), and basic details on the SOP (content & length). Please name a program that requires more than three letters. I've heard of four, very rarely, in other disciplines. I have never heard of five.
    ..... I don't think you're a troll; that said, you seem to be unfathomably clueless as to the grad app process in general. Do you even have a research interest? POIs?
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    SportPsych30 reacted to SportPsych30 in struggling with being patient   
    Sometimes I honestly feel like you are just here trolling all these threads... 
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from repentwalpurgis in struggling with being patient   
    Sometimes I honestly feel like you are just here trolling all these threads... 
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    SportPsych30 reacted to danieleWrites in struggling with being patient   
    Some things to keep in mind. This is the time for mid-terms. Professors have to grade mid-term work (exams and essays and whatnot), turn in mid-semester grades, prepare for undergraduate advising, attend a bunch of meetings, finish tweaking abstracts and stuff for conferences they'll wish to attend, finalize course preparations for next semester, and a bunch of other things. They will prioritize work. LORs in October? Low priority. Very low.
     
    Creativity and work ethic? They need to be able to discuss your scholarship. If you aren't taking a class from them now, you should remind them of your scholarship by providing copies of papers you've written for their courses. Psychology isn't one gigantic string of multiple choice exams. You should have some kind of writing sample from your undergraduate work. Provide that as well. Even if you don't, you will need a writing sample to apply to some graduate schools. That will depend on the program.
     
    One of my letter writers did not send the LOR until February, a month after the application deadline had passed. I got accepted and funded anyway. You've been through psychology as an undergraduate so you should know that you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Your posts on this thread come across with a strong sense of entitlement, as if you expect your professors to drop everything in their lives and immediately respond to you. I don't know if this is the way you are because I don't know you, but this is the attitude that your posts here give off. Whatever the case may be, almost everyone has to follow up several times with letter writers before they get sent off. Find the best way to follow up that suits the individual professor. Call, drop by during office hours,or email. Everyone is different. Find the best way to phrase your request.
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from Lisa44201 in struggling with being patient   
    Sometimes I honestly feel like you are just here trolling all these threads... 
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from pears in struggling with being patient   
    Sometimes I honestly feel like you are just here trolling all these threads... 
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    SportPsych30 got a reaction from Cesare in struggling with being patient   
    Sometimes I honestly feel like you are just here trolling all these threads... 
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    SportPsych30 reacted to powerlifterty16 in struggling with being patient   
    yeah i need to send the prompt. I had another professor call me this morning, but I was sleeping and not feeling so good so my dad told him  iwas in the shower and would call him back. I forgot to call him o.0 and just realized, so ill call him tomorrow and hope he understands.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to repentwalpurgis in struggling with being patient   
    No offense, but I think you are going about this very poorly.  Of COURSE they are waiting for the prompt - if you don't have the exact information (ahem, deadlines, websites, info on the schools, whatever) they need to submit the letter to begin with, why would they just start writing a letter anyway?  A small amount of professors might just write a letter out of nowhere, but more often than not, they are incredibly busy!  They already send dozens on dozens of emails a day, and replying back to an email that promises some kind of information in the future is not exactly productive - nor is writing to a school when they don't know the first thing about how to submit a letter.  The initiative here is on you - you send them the information, provide the links or prompt to submit the letter itself, and the information (SOP, transcripts, OLD WORK - you mentioned you hadn't seen your professors in years, might be a good idea) that will remind them about you and give them something to write about in the first place. 
    Worrying about whether they're replying is not productive and setting the deadlines yourself (I hear 3 weeks is a good bet, 2 is too short and 4 is too long but I'm not sure about that) will get the ball rolling.  Remember, this is your initiative, you decided to apply to grad school, and as such, you're the one who has to make letters happen.
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    SportPsych30 reacted to fuzzylogician in struggling with being patient   
    You're missing my point, 4 letters is a lot. Most people don't have that many people who can write them strong letters, so you're in good shape (if the letters can talk about your research ability/potential, not just about grades from classes). LORs normally are not sent to the students at all: when you fill out the online application for the schools you're applying to, you will be asked to provide email addresses and contact information for your recommenders. They will then be sent a prompt from the school and will be able to upload a letter to the application system directly. In many cases, a LOR that has been seen by the student is given less weight because it's assumed that it's not truly confidential -- in some cases such a letter will even be discarded. I'm guessing your professors are now waiting to get the prompts from you so they can finish things on their end, but at no point will they just send the letter to you. 
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    SportPsych30 reacted to repentwalpurgis in i suck   
    I'm done responding to this thread because OP just seems absurd, and probably is just messing around, honestly.  I can't even take this seriously anymore.  Ultimately, I was just trying to help, even if I got a little snarky.  I'm sure there will be people who will be much more straightforward than I was.  OP won't budge from this mindset, and at least we've all said a few things he/she could take into consideration.
     
    #1- Nope, not experience - but I know others have.  It's not worth crying about if the test experience is bad.  (Again...you suck it up).
     
    #2- You misunderstand, and dodge the point of what is referred to in the second bold sentence.  I am still talking about being upset, in ANY extent that causes a person to feel they must legally deny their responsibility to have studied in the first place, and pick a pointless battle with ETS.  From your post, I must assume that... actually, I don't know what you are talking about nor how a cold has to do with the initial incident.  You are just sympathizing with a person that kinda just needs to grow up.
     
    "Pretty indicative that"... the blank was to be filled in by you, and I don't think it was hard.
     
    So actually... my energies are also being expended on something I don't wanna waste my time on anymore!  Good luck to all!  Bye!
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