I am a rising senior and will be applying to health psychology programs in the fall. I hope to study behavioral intervention and preventative health behaviors surrounding obesity.
I am double-majoring in Exercise Science and Psychology. My GPA is 3.68 (psychology GPA-4.0). I got mostly B's in my chemistry and physiology courses
I am taking the GRE in mid July. Based off of my previous standardized test performances, I think I will be fine.
I am a captain of the women's rowing team at my university and will be a 4-year D1 athlete upon graduation. Also, I rowed on U23 national team last summer. I am hoping that this will strengthen my application.
Because I have dedicated so much time to rowing, I have somewhat limited research experience. I do not have any presentations or publications.
I joined an I/O lab at my university this past January. Thus far, I have worked on data cleaning and analysis of data. Right now, I am working on analysis for a huge dataset for this lab.
I am also working on a motivational interviewing project at the local hospital with diabetic patients. This is my main project for the summer and I am heavily involved with it. Sadly, I do not think that we'll have anything published for this project by the time I submit applications.
I am also a member of two journal clubs and am taking a grad class in robust statistics to keep me busy this summer.
I intend to primarily apply to PhD programs. Do you think any health programs will take me seriously despite my lack of research experience?
