FinallyAccepted

parade around

Maybe they should take those application fees and hire some temporary extra help to send out those e-mails.

Reading your response above made me think of this: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/908-dear-student-no-i-won-t-change-the-grade-you-deserve I'm an educator, and it's things like this which make me want to pull my hair out.

hit bottom

I don't know about others, but I actually would prefer this. If I didn't get admitted because of luck, fine, I'll reapply next year. If it was a money issue that will be resolved next year, students who didn't graduate, etc. that would be great to know. If my research is not seen as fitting in with the lab, then that's not likely to change, and I could then focus on other schools I may have overlooked for fit in subsequent years of applications. I got shut out last year but applied to some of the same schools this year. If I had known they had no interest in me based on my research interests, etc., that would have been ~$150 I could have used to apply to a school that might have been more interested (or just pocketed to get a massage at about this time in the process - man, that sounds good).

rock bottom

crack shot

put off

Yeah, it's frustrating. At least with GradCafe I know not to have false hope (after my programs start sending out interview invites), but for all those people not on here to see that do they continue to think they have a chance? I hate false hope. And I already ranted in the Social Psych forum about how it would be nice for as much that we pay for applications that someone would give us some sort of feedback about our application. It would be nice to see if I should even try to reapply the next year, or I am just NOT what they are looking for...

round one

cash bonus

My POI at one of the schools I want to go to is married to another member of the same department. They met in high school, went to undergrad together, got masters together, got their PhDs together, and got TT positions at the same university together. They both had to be at the top of their game so that they would both be wanted wherever they went, but they made it work because it was important enough to both of them. Just a "See? Maybe it can work out" story. I hope everything works out for you two.

That's such a difficult question to answer because applications are made up of so many more things than just your GRE scores and GPA. I can't answer to engineering fields, but for programs I applied to, those more objective measures on the application serve to filter out potential applicants rather than as the primary criteria for judging them. As for the application decision, I'm glad that you're not rejected, but I would wait before contacting the professors directly. Good luck.

To the OP, I echo everyone else in getting your GRE scores up. That's a quantifiable and objective thing that you can change. You might see what kind of grants you can apply for as well. Since PhD programs in clinical psych should be fully funded, some of those funds may be available for American students only. If you came with your own money, at least that wouldn't be affecting your application adversely. I don't have further details as I only applied to American schools and am American myself. Finally, remember that, like others mentioned, clinical psych is pretty much the worst PhD program to try to get into, so it may also take multiple years to find the best fit research-wise, as well. Good luck to you.

petty theft

Public property

This is true, but also the reason that I graduated with a Masters in General Psychology without the best background in stats. The professor, because the majority of students were in the Counseling Psychology track (and unlikely to need in-depth stats), decided not to teach us SPSS or any stats program. We only went through the most basic of statistics and were given an easy take-home final exam. I ended up with 100% in the class but had to teach myself statistics when it came to running the data that I collected in my quantitative masters project. The other students were psyched, but I'm less grade-focused, and would have preferred to have learned something. Plus, is it too much to ask that my own psychologist take a course in statistics so they understand how to read and understand journal articles? Take a class that forces you to persevere in something that is difficult? I don't necessarily think testing situations are our enemy, but we could be using better strategies to help ourselves learn things so that we actually understand them. Assignments which force you to practice running stats and justify one analysis over another would seem to be helpful for that.

Nile River

Two tone

Smart mouth

girl talk

new girl

1. Not necessarily. It depends on whether your program does interviews. I also just got waitlisted at a school that does interviews, but did not interview me. 2. It depends on your program. Technically, it's not over until it's over, but if you see acceptances for your program on the Results page, it might be wise to temper false hope. 3. I would leave the POI alone, but up to you about e-mailing a grad coordinator about where they are in the process. Some are more forthcoming than others.

Small town

My husband is also waiting anxiousy to hear back about schools (after all, he'd have to move somewhere new, too). Every random e-mail I get from the program I also send to my husband. I call it "fake out squared." If I have to have a freak out moment, I might as well share the wealth with him, as well.