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Rejected. Good luck all!

I emailed earlier this week and all they said was: "Notifications will be sent electronically this week to all applicants. The NRC Fellowships Office Ford Program Staff" This was on the 2nd.

I too am waiting to hear back. Good luck everyone!

Has everyone moved and gotten settled? I can't believe classes will be starting so soon!

I tried to work in a variety of different labs in order to figure out what I would like. A clinical health lab, developmental lab focusing on adolescents development as well as decision making research, another developmental lab focusing on successful aging. I attempted to get into a behavior analysis lab, but couldn't find any opening. My point is trying different types of research can be very helpful in figuring out what excites you and bores you to tears.

I wanted to say at one university I was at taxes were automatically taken out. For my fellowship,however, taxes are not taken out but they are taxable (this was stressed by the director that not reporting the stipend as income is fraud) and like SeriousSillyPutty, we're supposed to pay estimated taxes to keep from owing a lot come April 15. I'm guessing as mentioned above if all funds are solely for academics then it is not taxable, however living stipends are.

Some programs let you waive a few course credits and sometimes your master's thesis (if you did one), so you may shave a year off. I am currently doing this come Fall. I'm leaving my current PhD program for another and will be getting my masters and I am hoping to shave a year off and be done in 3 years for my next program. It's all really program specific as well as case-by-case I would imagine.

Thanks! I hope all goes well for you too (in the warmer weather).

I'll be moving in August. I look forward to this next step, but not to getting my cat to drive 3 1/2 hours in my car for the trip..

Hopefully more of us come out of the wood works and maybe we can start a Facebook group or some thing so we can all connect. I'm still looking for a place to live. I don't know if I'm looking too early or all the good places are taken, but I'm having little luck.

I have no answer but I can sympathize. Me and my SO of 7 years are uncertain about living arrangements because he currently works the majority of the week out of state (since about Nov), but we aren't sure if he will still have the job in the Fall. If he gets a job in our current town, he plans on staying, if he keeps his current job then he'll move his stuff with mine and stay on weekends with me like now. But we haven't discussed if he ends up jobless (besides him being in real estate) in our current town, though. I'm guessing we would do a LDR, but we haven't actually discussed this in depth. =\

I meant that it's becoming more common, so it's not as much as a leg up in the past.

I am receiving my MS in May, I'm leaving my current PhD program, and I got rejected from 4 of my 5 schools. I think a masters only really helps if you don't have a background in psych or did subpar in undergrad and want to prove that you can handle the course work. Also at the one school I interviewed at, a large portion of the applicants had masters or will have them in May, making having a masters not all that beneficial in admissions.

I emailed my POI to tell her directly that I would be accepting the offer. She called me to chat right after she got the email.

Hopefully some of those don't occur simulatenously.

This applies to the OP's field, psych. Which is why I brought up 'fit' because people get rejected from lack of fit alone (e.g. too vague of research interests, willingness to work with ANY professor).If faculty and grad students perceive that the applicant,during interviews, is giving out the vibe that 'any program or POI will do as long as it's in the area' they get rejected. It shows a lack of commitment to the faculty and grad students. I've been the interviewer, and will be again next weekend, and they are the first that get cut.

I just accepted my offer for the Biobehavioral Health Phd program! Anyone else going to be in State College come fall?

I just wanted to note that 'fit' is an essential component to the application process because you can get into a program and hate the research, collegiality/people, and/or clinical experiences. Just be careful in terms of those things.

You could go to APA's website and look through each accredited clinical or counseling program. Though I'm betting you would probably find more about sexual disorders in clinical. If you just want to do therapy, I would suggest a masters in counseling, marriage & family therapy, etc depending on your state. If you don't want to do research, a doctorate is not for you. Hope this helps a bit!

You might want to check what the department has to say about it. Many programs/departments won't allow for outside employment.

Mine still says "In Review". Hoping that's not a bad sign..

I agree! I'm a second year developmental psych grad student and my mcnair project was brought up during interviews at places I got accepted.So I think it's a great program to get research experience as well as a lot of help and support when applying to grad.

I will be getting another tattoo or a kitten or puppy once I move. I was so sure I wasn't getting in anywhere I never seriously considered these things!

In my current program I'm in developmental psych and have 6 tattoos that are relatively easy to hide. As long as you can hide the piercing/tattoo during professional occasions, it shouldn't be a problem. My current advisor nor my mentor cared about my tattoos, as long as I was professional, and a good bit of the grad students have tattoos in easy to hide locations. Now that I have an acceptance, I am considering another tattoo as a present to myself. Not sure what just yet. I have a few ideas, but no designs.

I was told that I have an offer on the way for Penn State's Biobehavioral Health Program! I could seriously cry, considering how I was striking out elsewhere.