[UMass Peace and Violence]

According to the grad secretary the Peace and Violence program is still reviewing apps, and will be taking students. Apparently, although it is a subsection, it has its own admission process.

[McGill Experimental]

Any news?

[UMass Peace and Violence]

Anyone heard anything?

[Additional letter to Admissions Committee?]

Since applying, I have been accepted to present my research at two national conferences. I thought about sending a letter to inform the adcoms. Thoughts?

[What do you call the place you are applying to?]

"I am eager to apply to the department of psychology at the University of X."

"I am eager to apply to the University of X."

"I am eager to apply to the the social area of the department of psychology at the the University of X."

Does anyone have any ideas on how to handle this?

[Please Evaluate Me]

Thanks, I appreciate the advice.

[Please Evaluate Me]

I did 5 years of physics (undergraduate + masters), no courses in Psychology, a few in linguistics. I got into a pretty decent Cognitive Psych program and am doing just fine (so far at least.. been just half a quarter!). IF you have relevant research experience and skills, and if you can get a professor interested in your application, that's what matters more than what courses you've done as you will have all the coursework you need in the first two years of your graduate experience in the program.

[Please Evaluate Me]

STATS

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• BA Anthropology (3.14)
  
• MA Anthropology (3.94)
  
• I also teach anthropology at a local state university
  
• 17 credit hours of psych beyond intro (mostly graduate credits)(4.0)
  
• Gre: V- 570, Q - 720 W - 5.0
  
• Research experience: Anthro masters thesis and one psych research project in which I designed and carried out the entire process (paper under review)
  
• 1 anthro pub
  
• 1 psych pub (under review)
  
• 1 psych pub (under revision)
  
• Good LOR's (Thesis chair, psych research adviser, current dean) all of them know me well
  
• SOP: Hopefully good
  

I just got off the phone with a graduate admissions person. After hearing about my stats, she asked if I had taken the typical battery of psych courses. This made me nervous because I really haven't. My psych course work is mainly graduate-level research and methods courses (1 advanced social psych course). I have never taken abnormal psych, adolescent psych, personality psych, clinical psych, cognitive psych etc. Is this a problem? I am applying to mainly mid-level PhD programs.

Thanks