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Sounds pretty cool! Social psych is really competitive, though. Especially in the above mentioned top-notch schools. So you might want to apply to a wide range of programs. Good luck to you next year

No unfortunately...I got rejected by both. But my POI at Penn told me before the application that he would very likely go on sabbatical this year, so I wasn't surprised that I got rejected. As for Princeton, I think I was just not qualified... Good luck! What area are you applying to study?

Undergrad Institution: Small top 50 liberal arts college. No reputation in psych... Major(s): Psychology, German Minor(s): Math GPA in Major: 3.85 (Psych), 3.93 (German) Overall GPA: 3.85 Position in Class: 5%, will graduate Magna Cum Laude Type of Student: International male GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 162 V:158 W:4.5 TOEFL Total: Waived at most places since I have been studying in the US for almost four years Research Experience: One summer at my school in color perception (psychophysics) Two projects on narcissism and self-esteem at my school(social psych) One summer at Harvard studying executive function and sentence processing (psycholinguistics) One semester at a Language Cognition lab in Heidelberg University doing cross-linguistic differences in sentence processing when I was studying abroad (psycholinguistics) One summer at Stanford doing experimental pragmatics (also psycholinguistics) One senior thesis (equivalent to an honor thesis) continuing the project I did at Stanford Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several grants from my school Psi Chi undergraduate research grant Pertinent Activities or Jobs:President of Psi Chi, Chinese tutor, one conference abstract, multiple presentations Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Two grad classes in computational neuroscience that might potentially have helped Special Bonus Points: I had both of my PIs from the summer research from Harvard and Stanford write me rec letters--both of them were fairly well-known in the field, and both letters are presumably very strong. International student but since I'm Asian, I don't think I'm considered minority in the science community... Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Applying to Where: 1 linguistics: Northwestern 3 cognitive sciences: MIT, Brown and Rochester 9 Psychology: Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, UCSD, Michigan 1 Speech and Hearing: Maryland Results Interview: CMU, Brown, Rochester, UCSD, Cornell Accepted: CMU, Brown Waitlist: Cornell Rejected from some places but withdrew my apps to other places as soon as I was accepted to CMU Attending: Carnegie Mellon psychology, studying auditory neuroscience of speech! Weaknesses: I do very badly in exams (due to intense fear), especially big exams. So my GRE scores were not great. Looking back on it, my PS was very similar for the diverse programs that I applied to, so my interests didn't align well with some of the departments The first couple interviews were not good because of inexperience Being international makes it somewhat a disadvantage because I don't have outside funding Strengths: My research experience definitely helped judging from responses I got before I applied and the interviews My last couple interviews went really well--I did great preparation and the conversations went very smoothly. For future applicants: read as many papers of your potential POIs as possible, and be sure to talk about them at your interview, focusing on one or two. Don't be too abrupt though, see where the conversation goes, and appropriately insert it into your conversation. I think taking math, computer science and comp neuro classes also helped considering the technical skills that are favored in the field.

So excited to see another CMU incoming student

I will be attending Carnegie Mellon and studying cognitive neuroscience!

Yes I am looking for off-campus housing right now and would love to have a housemate!

Thanks a bunch

Oh that sounds awesome! I haven't looked at housing yet. How much is the rent, if you don't mind me asking?

Congrats! I heard the school of drama is excellent!

I just confirmed my decision today and will be joining CMU in the Psychology Department and Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, so I just thought it'd be great to connect with people. For the psych people, we have a facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/622526354514622/ Anyone is welcome to join! Excited to see you all in the fall!

Just got my first acceptance today! I was completely surprised. When I got the email to check the website, I was like "oh what's the pointing of reading a rejection letter..." Then when I saw the "Congratulations" in the first line, I got so excited and restless that I was yelled at and told to close my laptop by my professor in class (I checked it in my differential equations class this morning, which I really shouldn't have!). Even though I might not go to that school, it was still one of the happiest moments of my life! PhD admissions is extremely hard for international students who don't have any outside funding sources, so this is really a relief for me!

It's very interesting to know that UCLA is pro-UG...I was expecting the opposite!

Sorry to hear that. Fit with your adviser is important, but I think collaboration with other people in the department is also extremely important. In general, I just don't think it's a good idea to work with just one person in the department for all five years...So I'd definitely think twice if I wanted to go to UCLA... This is a tough decision, especially when your boyfriend is there Good luck!

Congrats

Totally agree with Isilya, I really really enjoyed mine too

Interesting! So I wonder if a violation of the order would cause a P600 or N400 in ERP? I guess this is more a question of whether it's syntactic violation or semantic, or neither since it's more idiomatic?

I'm also interested in language but I'm leaning more toward language acquisition and in general developmental psycholinguistics. Specifically, I'm interested how children's multiple levels of language comprehension abilities develop overtime, particularly the phonological and pragmatic level. Speech perception is an area that I will very likely be involved in for grad school. I'm curious about how children's knowledge of segmental and suprasegmental structures changes overtime and to what extent is this knowledge language-specific. Also, I'm concerned about how these perceptual abilities are related to language production, from the earliest forms of production such as babbling to more sophisticated and fluent productions, as well as social feedback from the speakers. At the pragmatic level, I'm interested in children's implicature computation and how information at this level can interact with other levels of language such as phonology (my senior thesis is looking at how prosody helps implicature understanding). Otherwise, I'm also interested what cognitive abilities affect language comprehension, particularly at the syntactic and pragmatic level!

Thanks

Hi. I've gotten an email about two weeks ago from my POI at the Cognition, perception and development division. From the email he said that they've invited several people. But I assume that they are talking about just their division--Cornell has several divisions within the psych department I think. So if you haven't heard from your POI, it might be that they are still reviewing apps! Hope this helps Also, if the person who got an interview from Upenn could PM me your POI, I'd really appreciate it!

Her work is really cool! But it's mostly neurolinguistics stuff though. So are you doing neurolinguistics? Just curious

Yup! At CMU my POI is more cognitive neuroscience and Cornell is more cog/developmental. So your POI might still be reviewing apps! Good luck

International student here as well! But I'm at a US undergrad institution though so my situation might be very different. But I have heard schools who invite international students from very far to interview. I think generally international students are put in a different pool than domestic students but I'm curious about international students in the US...Anyone have an idea?

I'm curious about the two posts about UIUC psychology: would you mind sharing you guys' areas? Thanks

I'm applying to study acquisition! I would say most language acquisition programs are under the psychology department, particularly developmental psychology (language development). And a lot of people doing cognitive development would also have their hands in language acquisition as well! Other than that, as mentioned in the previous posts, language acquisition could also be in the cognitive sciences program. I have also found some ling programs that do acquisition as well! Good luck!

I'm applying to mostly top programs like Harvard, Stanford, which I have no idea whether I can get into... Then I'm also applying to UMich and possibly Maryland and Rochester for developmental ones..What about you?