sowhat59

Thank you for the advice. What's your opinion on research experience? I spoke with someone at one of the high ranked program, who told me research experience is far more important than completing prereq and extra psy courses. Do you agree or disagree? I've always been interested in research but couldn't get a position as I don't have any science related educational background. It's pretty frustrating for me. Do you think if I take enough psy courses, that would somewhat balance out my lack of research experience?

Hello! Sounds like we're in the same boat. I live in LA and am trying to change my career into Psy. Much like you, I don't have any pre-req done and I actually just posted a question on this forum about taking pre-req at community college. I don't know if it'd hurt the change of acceptance, but due to CA's budget cut, it seems almost impossible to go back to 4yr school to take psy pre req, unless you go to private school.... Have you found any info on this since you posted? Any help will be very much appreciated!

I earned my master's degree from a well known graduate school in 2010. After working in my field since then, I realized that pursuing a career in psychology is really what I want. Although I have a master's degree, I don't think it's possible for me to get into a psy doctoral program. So I looked at several graduate level programs and their application requirement, which include some pre-requisite. Since I've always been interested in psy, I read some books but was able to take only 1 psy course in my undergrad which was about "substance abuse." - not on the pre-req list. My goal is to earn a doctoral degree and continue researching and writing. I love interacting with people and listen to their issues but I'm a bit stronger on the scholastic side. Do I need to go back to undergrad and take Introductory Psychology, basic Statistics class and such? I looked at undergrad psy programs in my area but due to the CA budget cuts, most schools don't accept post-bacc student, which leaves me with pretty much one option to take the pre-req at community college. In a case that I do need pre-req, would classes from community college hurt my chance of admission to a grad program? What if my GRE and Psy subject test score is pretty high? Would community college still look bad? And how about online course? My GRE from undergrad is 3.6/4.0 and grad is 3.9/4.0 btw

I earned my master's degree from a well known graduate school in 2010. After working in my field since then, I realized that pursuing a career in psychology is really what I want. Although I have a master's degree, I don't think it's possible for me to get into a psy doctoral program. So I looked at several graduate level programs and their application requirement, which include some pre-requisite. Since I've always been interested in psy, I read some books but was able to take only 1 psy course in my undergrad which was about "substance abuse." - not on the pre-req list. My goal is to earn a doctoral degree and continue researching and writing. I love interacting with people and listen to their issues but I'm a bit stronger on the scholastic side. Do I need to go back to undergrad and take Introductory Psychology, basic Statistics class and such? I looked at undergrad psy programs in my area but due to the CA budget cuts, most schools don't accept post-bacc student, which leaves me with pretty much one option to take the pre-req at community college. In a case that I do need pre-req, would classes from community college hurt my chance of admission to a grad program? What if my GRE and Psy subject test score is pretty high? Would community college still look bad? And how about online course? My GRE from undergrad is 3.6/4.0 and grad is 3.9/4.0 btw