moralresearcher

Do you have a different offer with more funding? See if you can get your salary increased.

Private/Public also makes a big difference. I know UT's HDFS program runs just under 17k (9 mo), but Duke's social psych program offers 27k for the year. Both places have relatively equal cost of living.

Wake, William and Mary, Vandy. Wake and William and Mary fight over the title of best MA program in the country. If you go to one of them and don't seriously fuck up, you will likely get an offer to a top phd program. I know that most of the people who have come out of one of those programs in the last couple of years have almost all gotten into their top choice (or one of their top choice) programs. It isn't a waste of time.

You can see the people who add them to the list here.

Thanks!

UCLA (Social): January 10-12 Notre Dame (CBB/Dev/Quant): February 7-9, 2013 UBC (Social): Feb 7-10 Vanderbilt (Quant): Feb 14-16 UNC (Quant): Feb 15 UT Austin (Social): Feb 22-23 UT Austin (HDFS): Jan 24-26 Duke (Social): Jan 24-26 Phone/Skype/Conferences Notre Dame (CBB): December 7, 2012 Washington University in St. Louis (Social): December 12, 2012 Notre Dame (Dev): December 22, 2012 UNC, Chapel Hill (Social): November 1, 2012 (Unofficial chat) UT, Austin (Social): January 10, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 4, 2013 UC Riverside (Social): January 7, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 3, 2013 UNC (Social): December 18, 2012 Penn State (Social): January 14, 2013 University of Alabama (Social): January 18, 2013

I realize this probably makes me incredibly stupid, but I cannot seem to be able to check my status. I tried logging into the application (like for other schools, and it's saying "Access Denied-you can only submit one app per year". Can anyone help a girl out?

It used to be like that, but a few crazy people made it so that most places choose to interview first.

Nope, they still fund you for 5 years. The main point of getting an MA is that you then have 2 extra years to get published (so people coming in with an MA have 7 years of grad school instead of 5). Theoretically, you'll be almost as competitive as someone with a 2-year post doc in that situation, but you don't have to do the post doc.

It's the opposite. Also, your percentile rank is at least as, if not more important than, your actual number score.

Wake Forest (NC) and William and Mary (VA) both have funded MA programs in experimental psych. Also, ASU West's campus has a semi-funded MA program. I don't know what the whole deal is, but I think most people are at least partially funded.

For what it's worth, 4/6 of the students who are applying to PhD programs from my MA program have heard about interviews already--3 of us have official invites, one is unofficial, but zer POI said ze'd be getting the official invitation to interview weekend in January when the department sends them out. 2 of the 4 are for clinical programs, but I believe the interviews are department-wide. It's early but not unheard of that you can start hearing already, especially for schools that have interviews in January. UCLA, for example, has theirs the weekend before SPSP. I'm pretty sure they need to get that all sorted out before break. However, I also heard about interviews in mid-to-late February when I applied before, so there's quite a range, and half of the schools that I'm applying to aren't even at the deadline yet. Also, the two students that probably have the strongest apps are the two that haven't heard anything yet, fwiw.

It's pricey, but Mac is good. And I'm allergic to pretty much everything. Clinique is also good, but similarly pricey. Plus, both hold up better than most regular brands (i.e. Loreal, Revlon, etc) over the day and lead to less break-outs (although my conclusions about the breakouts are spurious because I didn't start wearing expensive make-up until after I was 20).

Also, they shouldn't be able to force a decision out of you before April 15th unless they aren't part of the Council or whatever it's called. Talk to the school where you're waitlisted.

Did you interview? If not, I'm pretty sure it's bad news you're waiting on--from what I could tell during the visit, they were only taking students who interviewed. And I do know for sure that Mary Murphy isn't taking students--she either has 2 1st years and a 2nd year or 2 2nd years and a 1st year and so will be waiting a year or two before adding anyone.