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They sent out acceptances the third week of February. I released a fully funded acceptance + merit fellowship in mid-March. They seemed to have used a different strategy this year in that they sent out 12 acceptances, with the goal of having an incoming class of 8 (they have a very large graduating class). I'm guessing that means that they don't have a waitlist this year, but I don't know that for sure.

My sense is that as far as FSPPs they are okay, but essentially the school is not very good, and you will have a shit time getting an internship coming from Adler. This is especially true if you go to the Chicago campus where practicum placements are also hard to obtain due to the high density of high calibre schools in the area. I understand why it would be tempting, but $200,000 is a lot of money to shell out for a degree you might not be able to complete due to competition for accredited internships.

The funding is for graduate school so you can't accept it before you are actually enrolled in school.

I would call the department. It's pretty poor for them to make decisions and not let people know ASAP. Also, if you're holding on to offers because you're waiting to hear from a school, then that school is putting the other departments in a shitty position. Long story short, give them a call and don't feel bad about it.

Oh that makes sense! I hadn't thought about it too thoroughly.

I don't think it was on the Auburn website. I think it was on the A&M website embedded in students' descriptions.

I decided not to apply to Auburn after seeing on their website that a number of their students transferred to Texas A&M.

Thanks for this. I've been accepted to two fully-funded PhDs at good schools, but at the end of the day I don't feel like either of them fit well, so I am seriously considering waiting another year and applying again. It's a bit terrifying but it seems like a better option than spending 5 years at a place I don't really want to be. I'm not sure I would have seriously considered that option if you hadn't posted this.

It's just the top-up amount is incorrect. You get the amount of your scholarship plus $8,000 (or this may have changed to $10,000 recently). If you get a scholarship it is not topped up by at least $10,000. If you get CGS-D there is no top-up.

I don't know who added the Ryerson entry but it is wrong.

I've heard a few not so great things about some of their clinical faculty, but the program is supposed to be pretty good if you aren't in one of those labs.

Those are fine programs but no one reviewing your application for clinical programs will care. They might for counselling programs. I know a lot of people in clinical phd programs in Canada (and was in one myself) and not a single one had completed a college certificate. I also don't think you should apply to the PhD programs but to the masters programs. In psych in Canada you generally apply to the MA and then are admitted to the PhD directly from the MA. You are only admitted to the MA if you intend to pursue the PhD. Occasionally students with MAs are admitted straight to the PhD, but that's pretty rare. Those spots are also more limited. Quite a few people will already have MAs when they enter the clinical psych MA stream.

York is often very late with their rejections. They also keep an internal short list which contains ~50 people. I got a letter from them in June of my clinical application season saying that I had made the short list but they wouldn't be able to offer me admission.

A degree from UofT is always worth more than a degree from York. The York clinical program is a good program. I definitely would not say that it is the best program bar none. Having spoken to a number of students there, it definitely has it's rough spots. The way they do the first practicum is pretty terrible.

I would absolutely choose OISE over York, especially with UofT starting a clinical program last year. York's clinical program is still selective because it is a clinical program, but they have been so tied to the Les Greenberg model that they've definitely declined relative to other evidence based programs. A degree from U of T is worth more than a degree from York, and U of Ts practicum network is considerably larger. I know people who have gone through each program, and the OISE one is much more rigorous. Also, living in downtown toronto is way better than richmondhill

Has anyone heard anything positive from Waterloo?

I am! PMed you.

I'm pretty sure it's St John's university in the US. MUN has/had a program, but it had issues with funding.

I'm pretty sure that all the interviews were setup more like recruitment sessions than formal interviews.

The OU Interviews were last week, and acceptances were sent this morning.

*All first round offers are out. If you interviewed and haven't heard that you are out of consideration, it might be worth contacting your POI to find out if you are on their waiting list, and how many people are a head of you. At Ryerson DCT interviews are not always interviews to get into the program. They are often used as recruitment interviews. And again, first round offers have been made, but a professor might have taken a risk on a student (e.g., very highly sought after student who is 50/50 on accepting the RU offer and accepting another offer) and thus is still somewhat continuing the interview process to determine which of the next students would be the second choice.

Hi Sujie, I have never applied to Guelph Clinical, but I have done the interview circuit for clinical programs in both Canada and the USA. I thought I would chime in because this seems to be a pretty common question on the forums. Essentially, this process is so competitive that absolutely no part of it should be considered a formality until you receive an official acceptance. That doesn't mean that you should be incredibly formal at each step as building rapport with potential supervisors is integral to success. It does, however, mean that each aspect of the application should be taken seriously, because at each step you could be removed consideration.

You might want to email them. They say right on their FAQ that they aren't accepting applications for direct entry to the PhD, and that it is an MA/PhD program. https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/psych/clinical-faq#1b

Ultimately, yes. But you apply to the MA and then in most cases get automatically moved into the PhD upon completion of the MA component.

What? All of these clinical programs are masters, and all of them have POIs.