Socrates1
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Anywhere that puts me up with someone else without telling me explicitly first gets me walking out the door, them paying for it, and me talking shit about them to every person I can find.
Seriously? Yeah, it'd be slightly annoying, but I think I'd much rather get into graduate school if I get an interview than throw a tantrum over something so petty and kill any chance of being admitted to the program.
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Well over a thousand dollars. I haven't added it up because I know I'll just feel nauseated by the damage to my savings.
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I honestly don't know if USC has finished sending out all of its interview invitations to international students yet, but I was told that they began sending them out to international students first.
Wait, so USC hasn't even done interviews, you're saying? I've been assuming this already happened and I'm getting rejected. I certain;y haven't heard anything.
Looks like UCLA is done with invites...as are most programs at this point I'm assuming?
I'm still waiting for my imminent rejection of several more schools lol
I haven't heard anything from UCLA. I'm also assuming I'm about to receive a barrage of rejection letters.
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This entire thread makes me want to throw up. As someone who is applying this year for the first time, I'm realizing how terrible I'll feel if I don't get in anywhere, which is seeming more and more like a possibility after reading this!
^^This, so much this.
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If anyone is still waiting for Yale, I'm afraid they're done. I expected it at this point, but they posted a generic, all graduate programs rejection letter to my profile yesterday, so it looks like they've filled all openings in the graduate school for next Fall.
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Spiral into total depression for a few weeks, hopefully get a better job. Start studying to retake the GRE all over again...
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In case anyone was wondering about USC interview invites, I called on Thursday to inquire. They said they are still in the process of sending them out to domestic students and not to worry yet.
Bleh. Given that you posted this 4 days ago with information from the previous week, I guess I should start bracing myself for that rejection notification.
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Anyone know whether lots of invites go out in February as well? I've only heard back from one school so far, a rejection. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm having a hard time with this.
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Applied to 8, been rejected by one so far. It's kind of depressing, honestly.
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Honestly, I felt the exact same way.
I got extremely low scores on everything on GRE. I'm so embarrased that i refuse to post them - really does not reflect my ability to communicate or to do math.
I have a very high GPA, 2 years of research experience, great LORs, scholarships/awards, first to go to college in my family, and I think - stellar SOP + PS.
I was terrified that my GRE score may keep me from getting into grad school.
Last week - I received a phone call from Michigan State University inviting me for an interview (less than 2 weeks after I applied). I was shocked, given their program boasts about the GRE average school is super high and yada yada yada.
Now, I think that I have a good chance of getting interviews at most of the schools that I applied to.
If your application is strong besides GRE, don't worry. Most schools look at you as a whole package. Hang in there.
Thanks, I do hope so. Unfortunately my GPA isn't that hot either, but hopefully anyone who bothers glancing at my transcript will see that was just be being a stupid 18-year old my freshman year. Good that you heard back from one so far, sadly the only news I've gotten is a notification that I didn't make the interviews at OHSU.
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Any behavioral or cog neuro people hear back yet?
I got rejected by the Behavioral Neuroscience program at Oregon Health & Science on the 20th. Standard "thanks for your interest, but you didn't make our interview cut" type of email. That's all I've heard so far, depressingly.
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It sucks cause it costs an arm and leg to take the test
For college students at least. I'm trying to make my first shot at the test my first and last attempt!Study a lot, taking some test prep class, online or in person would be a really good idea. Get some strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety. Take practice tests.
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Wow, I'm scared to take the test now!!
the test is seriously evil, no denying that.
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Some schools do multiple waves of invites, or multiple interview days just for logistical reasons. It's not a good sign but it's too early to decide you're out yet.
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Checking the gradcafe made me feel I will be rejected by every school I've applied due to my low verbal in GRE. Hope the admission committee will not toss my apps according to GRE without looking the rest of them. Hope my other parts could compensate my low verbal. I should have applied some less competitive programs.
BTW, will submit apps right on due date have effects?
It's okay, I'm at the point where I'll be pretty surprised if I get an interview. I don't see myself being admitted at all.
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Just curious, do manuscripts help? I'm second author on one me and some other RA's are doing, but it's been kinda on the back-burner cause we're all post-bacs who have other jobs, and the first author and I are both applying to grad school.
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I CANNOT CATCH A BREAK WITH THESE PEOPLE
When I came in to take the exam they changed my last name (!!!) because it needed to be "exactly" as it is on my ID. Over here, we use both the paternal and maternal last names, and they combined the two so that instead of being Jane Doe, or Jane Doe Smith, I appear as Jane Doesmith. Since I applied as Jane Doe to the schools, best case scenario, my scores are lost. Worst case - they accuse me of identity theft of sorts.
Then, they told me not to submit my results electronically because one of my target universities did not appear on the list. They said that if I had the institution code, it would be best to make a paper submission. Fine. Then they took over a month to process this information and submit it to the graduate schools - only after I called and emailed insisting that they do (I can only assume my paper submission was lost because they only took care of this after I emailed my list of schools and codes).
Now, checking my application status(es), NONE OF THEM HAVE RECEIVED MY GRE SCORES! Even though the ETS site says my scores were sent on November 6.
I have started emailing the departments, but this is seriously enraging and nerve-wrecking.
I'm with you. ETS is seriously from the 7th circle of Hell.
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My roommate didn't know that her new academic adviser had a PhD since some don't. I think she was erring on the side of caution. By bringing up this anecdote I didn't mean to justify my roommate's actions but rather bring the perspective of the naive student. My roommate now (whether warranted or not) prefers to meet with other advisers for one reason or another.
Wouldn't erring on the side of caution mean going with "Professor" or "Dr." until the adviser said otherwise? I mean, it seems like a lot worse to just assume someone who doesn't have a PhD has one than it is to assume someone who does have a PhD doesn't.
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Well, that's awkward.
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Realizing you managed to apply to a completely different school than the one you thought you were. Two days before deadline, and you finally notice that logo isn't right. You already have transcripts in, the LORs are uploaded.
At that point you just curse, completely throw out the section on POI's in your personal statement, rewrite it with POIs for the school your application is actually for, change the school names, order GRE score reports to the school, and submit it. Because hey, at that point you might as well, right?
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I'm applying. I have 3 in so far, finishing up 4 more for deadlines on the 15th, and have one that's weirdly not due until mid-January. And I like the lack of competition I have here. Only school I'm applying to that I've seen come up in this thread is John Hopkins.
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Just logged into my CU Boulder account for the first time to check my application, saw
Announcement for Admitted Students OnlyIf you would like to accept your offer of admission and confirm your intent to enroll by paying your
And freaked out for all of a few seconds until I realized that this it was just a standard blurb. When I clicked the actual status check button I just got "your application is complete and being reviewed by the admissions committee".
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Just submitted to OHSU here. My next deadlines are December 15th. I feel so weirdly liberated now.
Total illusion, I know, but it's nice not having a deadline looming hideously overhead while I work on stuff.
Importance of attending social function?
in Psychology Forum
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From what I've heard, the social functions in the evening, whether it's dinner or drinks with a professor, or hitting the bars with some current grad students is literally another interview. As in, that is when they see if you're socially well-adjusted, friendly, someone they'd like to spend years working with, and not obviously insane. Attendance is basically mandatory.