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If outside of California is a deal breaker, so be it, but you might also consider looking outside California if it's a possibility. PhD programs with 1) professors who have your same interests who are 2) also accepting students at the time you apply at 3) institutions that will offer you the funding package that you want may not be all that abundant. If your interests don't line up well with the professors teaching in California schools, it might not be a great fit for you or them. Otherwise what everyone else has said has been right on. Research. Letter writers (who are also connections to professors at other schools). Earn high GPA and GRE scores, although it seems as though fit with the school is going to be most important.

For me, I actually didn't initially go into psychology because I didn't want to treat people. I didn't know what else to do with psychology, and I don't think early advising in college did me any favors. My undergrad is in social studies education with a special endorsement (like a minor) to teach psychology. After 8 years of teaching AP Psychology in high school and a masters in general psychology, I've been accepted into a social psychology PhD program. It was a very roundabout way of doing it, but for the first time in awhile, I'm really happy. Optimistic even (which isn't normally my style). I got into psychology because the studies we learned about were so fascinating, and when I took the implicit association test and realized there were unconscious biases that affected my behavior, I was hooked. I just didn't know what to do with psychology until it was too late. I want to help people, I just don't want to do it on a one-on-one therapy scale. If I can add to the existing literature about eliminating bias, increasing prosocial behavior, etc. and come up a with a technique or something that is practical to use in many settings, that would be pretty great.

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Winters are cold, but if you're from New York, you'll probably be fine. For safety, I would make sure that there is a basement. It doesn't necessarily have to be yours. When my husband and I lived together, we lived in a small little 2-bedroom apartment that was right behind campus (off 9th and Mississippi) and we spent around 600 for rent (this was 2006-2007). We were on the second floor, but if there was a tornado warning, we could go downstairs to the communal laundry room area. If you're looking to rent a house, rather than an apartment, most probably have basements anyway, but it would be good to have one. Tornado watches and warnings are pretty common, but I've lived in Kansas for 30 years and have never seen a tornado (besides people's amateur footage that gets sent to the news station). I've been hustled into basements while out doing stuff (including seeing Brand New at a show at Liberty Hall), but have never been in an actual tornado. So there definitely are tornadoes, but being in the wrong place at the wrong time to be in one is less common. I wouldn't be too concerned about them. As for when you should start looking, you could probably start looking around now, but many leases go through July 31st with people subletting their places over the summer if they go home for the summer or graduated in May. We sublet a place one summer that we ended up staying in and renting when the school year started. The fraternities and sororities are distributed throughout campus (Tennessee St., West Campus Road, and Indiana St. as they get close to campus). They might be something to avoid if you're needing more quiet. There are a couple of bars on 14th street right next to campus that (when I lived there) got pretty loud on the weekends and when students didn't have class the next day. So there are some areas to avoid, but you can easily be within walking or biking distance from campus if you don't have or want to bring a car with you.

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I think that just depends on what you're willing to spend. As an undergrad, I always lived with roommates, but they were people I already knew. I never had to find a stranger for a roommate.

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Craigslist is a website where you can search for any of a number of things, including available housing. You can message each person who posts a listing individually. Here are Lawrence apartments. http://lawrence.craigslist.org/search/apa The closer you are to campus and the dorms, the louder it will be and the more undergrads there will be. Rent is pretty reasonable in Lawrence. I went there for undergrad, and as I search for apartments in Boulder (moving for PhD program), I only WISH I was paying Lawrence prices. Plus it's a fun place to live with some of my favorite places to eat. Kansas City is only a 30 minute drive away (so we go back to Lawrence frequently).

My husband may not be able to transition out of his job until later this year, so I may move there on my own to start as well. I'll have custody of the dogs, though. I agree that as much as we want to figure out the logistics of moving, it's a bit early to know what will actually be available since we're not ready to move right now.

Thank you. We're really looking forward to moving. My SO is more excited about the Boulder aspect of it than I am. I'm excited to get started with research. It took a couple of times, but that's why I really wanted to be there. That's so sweet of you to say. Thanks so much. Yay! Thanks!

Social Psych PhD at CU-Boulder.

Yeah, that's where we're at by now. I see a dog in your profile pic, so is it just you two moving?

I'll be there in the Fall for Social Psychology. Trying to figure out the living situation for me and my SO, currently.

I have no details about that program, but if it's a PhD program and you still haven't heard, I think it's appropriate to pester them. If applicants only have until 4/15 to make decisions, they should have let you know something by now.

I got my UT Austin rejection awhile ago, and I wasn't the only one. (Mar 16.) Maybe e-mail them.

I've met some band members before and after events to snag pictures, but for someone I've actually met, talked to, and knows my name: Victor Raider-Wexler (the actor who plays the landlord who evicts Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"). Not the most famous, but he's been in a bunch of random stuff. I taught both of his daughters and met with him for parent-teacher conferences. After I no longer had his kids, he'd still stop and say hi to me when he came for conferences with other teachers.

Yeah that's true. Got mine as well. Not like I'm shocked in the slightest. I got Indiana's today too. At least I already knew to expect them.

Not great so far, honestly. I graduated from undergrad in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in social studies and psychology education and secured a job teaching AP Psychology to high school juniors and seniors. In 2011, I entered a part-time non-funded master's program (which maybe won't have been worth it) which I graduated from in 2014 with a Master of Science in General Psychology. This is my second round of PhD applications, and I look to be shut out once again. I'm finally quitting my teaching job (maybe the net was holding me back from putting myself fully out there and giving it all I have) and am looking for research assistant jobs, but it looks like I'm getting shut out of those just as much as PhD programs. I'm a bit jaded about the process, and while my husband is convincing me to try YET again next year if I truly get rejected from everywhere, I just don't know. I imagine I probably will, but if I can't get a research assistant position or something to beef up my application between now and then, I just don't know that there would be much point to reapplying. I don't know what subfield you're interested in, but I applied to Social Psychology programs which are some of the most competitive (when UW rejected me last week, they mentioned 700 applicants and 20 spots available, which is less than a 3% acceptance rate overall for their psych PhD). So this is not the most optimistic response, but a very honest one. Make sure you have something that makes you shine, because I feel like places might be looking for those young, scrappy out-of-undergrad types. I never really felt like my non-traditional background was all that helpful. Life experience doesn't publish journal articles. (I swear I started out this 2nd application season much more hopeful than I am right now...)

Seriously! I get that I'm probably going to be rejected and I've made my peace with it, but they could send a freaking notification! I have a handful of schools which have sent me NOTHING yet, and as far as I've seen on the Results Page, others haven't been rejected either: Miami U of Ohio, Stony Brook U, UCSB, Indiana-Bloomington. It's two weeks out from having to officially decide and they haven't sent anything, yet. From my signature, it's obvious that I'm not needing this information to pick between schools, but that doesn't mean others aren't waiting for that info.

Quote: They wrote: "Your application was absolutely excellent, you were the best applicant ever. But, we were not able to go through your mediocre GREs. Try to retake them and apply next year." OMG They wrote blahblah, I say: "Fuck that shit..." Hey men, wasted money, wasted time, wasted everything!!!