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1 official and 2 unoffical rejections. I still have to hear back from my last 2 schools, one of which I interviewed at last week and the other doesn't do interviews. I'm pretty pessimistic about the outcomes now.

Interview invite: X State University Clinical Health Straight forward but vague at the same time.

My interviews (developmental and clinical) have been faculty and current students dressed down but applicants are expected to be dressed up. I've been on both sides interviewer and interviewee.

When I interviewed at experimental programs, everyone was just as dressed up as the clinical applicants in suits.

I agree, it may depend on how close you are with your letter writers. I am letting mine know about interviews (and hopefully acceptances) as they roll in, but they all wanted to be kept up to date.

Same with me. 5 doctoral programs only heard from 1. The silence is distressing!

Does anyone know if the Ohio U Clinical (health) invites are going as mass or individual invites?

I'll be glad when I hear from or see others have heard from my schools. Refreshing my browser and checking my email has dropped my productivity considerably.

I do believe this is field dependent. Getting a GTA to write for an internship or scholarship is okay, but grad student letters (at least what I've heard from mentors on admissions committees) hold little but usually NO weight on decisions in to grad programs. I don't professors should write letters for students they may have just had in class. They have nothing to tell the admissions committee except that they passed and showed up. I think there has to be actual interaction between the student and professor. And a transcript will not tell a professor anything when being asked to write a letter without supporting materials like Andsowego asks for. Professors aren't required to write letters when there is nothing to say. There seems to be a sense of entitlement people have that since they *gasp* attended class they should get a letter.

Can the person who got the developmental/clinical program let me know if invites are going out for ALL joint programs,if you know?

Just checked the Ohio U psych department site and this was posted: "Invitation-only interview dates for prospective clinical and experimental graduate student applicants are Friday, February 3rd and Friday, February 10th, 2012." http://www.ohioupsychology.com/2012-...nterviews.html No info on interview invites though.

I don't know specifically about I/O programs, but you're going to want to take the GRE in at least September. Many due dates,in psych generally, are in December, some in January. You can only retake the GRE once a month, so if you don't do as well as you would like, you would not have the time to retake and get scores in by deadline. Also, it can take weeks for scores to get to schools, so keep that in mind as well.

Whoever got the interview/interview invite for Cognitive Psych at WUSTL, are the programs deciding on invites at separate times or collectively ?

Some schools only do phone interviews, others use the phone interview as a pre-screening. It's hard to tell.

No, Clinical Health. I'm actually a2nd year and am leaving my current program for clinical. I somehow managed to sear how stressful this waiting time was from 2 years ago!

Congrats!

Has any one heard any thing from Pitt or WUSTL clinical programs?

I received the interview invite from POI via email for the Ohio State Clinical Health Program.

You can look through the NIH websites. They have the BRFSS(?) . I know some people who do child research look specifically at NICHD. Depending on the organization or dataset it can be free (the BRFSS is) or cost money to gain access. I hope this helps.

May I ask why your adviser thinks you can't have a comprehensive self-designed study? It's entirely possible to have one even with "surveys". Also, have you looked at any national datasets that are available for secondary data analysis depending on your research area/interests? Does your advisor have any older data that never got completely fleshed out?

It's really program dependent. Some do informal interviews to figure out who to invite to the formal one and some do interviews over the web. I know a couple of people who had skype interviews because of the professor's schedule (traveling, etc) and feasibility. So neither good or bad really.

Skype may also be of use. I know a couple of people from my program skyped from China and Thailand.

They do interviews. I had one last year.

Just wanted to add that psychologists may also look at social factors but at an individual level(e.g. SES of the individual, social support network, family structure) instead of the community level.