jhanson28

Hello everyone! I am beginning my grad studies at UBC this Winter term and am moving to Vancouver from Chicago on my own. Anyone else out there in need of a roommate!?

I'm pretty interested in Tufts myself at the moment. Would individuals who are *ccepted be willing to post their GRE scores? I'd be interested to find out what they may be looking for (though I'm aware that a lot of other factors go into the application process too). Anyone else applying for the MA/PhD through the Eliot-Pearson department of child development?

Hello! I too am hoping to get into a Psych related MA program but am having some serious reservations (and flashbacks from applying in 2008) about the application process. I feel I'd be happy in a Human Development and Family Studies/Sciences program or Applied Developmental Psych, as I'm very interested in social-emotional development. When I applied in 2008, it was predominantly to HDFS Ph.D. programs. Obviously they are very far and few between and are very selective as a Ph.D. program. At that stage, I had taken my GRE (V: 550 Q:620 AWA: 4.5....I'm a bit of an anxious test taker) and had a really strong GPA (3.95/4.0) at a small private school in Chicago, had a year of research experience, spent a summer working with Juvenile Sex Offenders, and was in the midst of completing a certificate in Child & Family Studies. I thought my application was strong enough and assumed I would get into at least one of the 5 programs I applied to. Sadly, I didn't get into any. I was devastated and felt pretty unintelligent. I feel my application would be much stronger today. I've since completed an honors senior thesis on fostering empathy in children, spent another year as a research assistant at Boston College, have worked at a Montessori school for nearly a year as a teacher's aid (if you're not familiar with the Montessori philosophy, it's predominantly about building children's independent learning, social skills, and positive emotional development). I may soon be working in a governmental program in Australia assisting under-privileged children and intend to retake the GRE very soon. But because of my previous experience, I'm now terrified to apply again! It was expensive. It was an exhausting process. One of the individuals I had writing a letter of recommendation was giving me a hard time about how many schools I applied to (and it was only 5 as mentioned!). Anyone else feeling a bit anxious here!? And why are you guys intending to pursue an MA versus a PhD? Time? Because of its focus on applied more so than research psych? Thanks in advance!