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I am going to be at CU Denver!

If you submit more documents after you have specifically been told not to, you are explicitly showing the program that you cannot follow simple directions and I'm pretty sure they aren't going to want someone like that in their program. Do not go against explicitly given instructions.

Yeah, I think if the funding is the same after the first year, you should go for the program that you think you will be happier at.

Do we have any other CU Denver doctoral students here? What programs are you guys in?

I would definitely go with your top choice in this case. It's better to be all in with a doctoral program than only somewhat passionate. It sounds like the funding is much more likely than not.

I am not applying this cycle. I actually applied last cycle and was accepted and decided to defer for a year, so I will be starting my School Psych PsyD program in Fall 2022!!

Thank you guys for your words and suggestions. I have reached out to the university and they have given me an admission deferral form to fill out, so I have sent that in and now I am just waiting to see if it will be approved or denied. If I can get the approval, then I can start in Fall 2022 instead of Fall 2021 and by then I will have had the operation.

Basically, I have been accepted to a doctoral degree program. It’s the right degree to get a job doing what I want to be doing. I’m extremely happy about it. It is in a different state than the one I currently live in, so accepting the offer would mean moving. Now, here come the issues. I currently work full time and I have health insurance. I am in the process of preparing to get a surgery done. For privacy reasons, I won’t go into detail about the exact surgery, but this surgery is not literally life or death, but would be extremely life improving for me. Right now, it feels like getting this surgery is like one of the most important things in my life. The tricky thing is that due to covid, I can't get the surgery right away. I have not been given an exact date, but it is looking like I wouldn’t be able to get the surgery until August. With that being the case, I would no longer have my current health insurance, as I would have left the job and started school by then. If I accept my offer and go to school and leave my job, then I will lose my insurance and therefore won’t be able to afford the surgery. On the other hand, if I stay where I am now at my current job and turn down the grad school offer in order to get the surgery, I am terrified I will never get the chance again. I mean, is it really worth it to turn down something as great as a doctoral opportunity for a surgery?? Will I be good enough to get in anywhere next year? I feel like I barely got in this year. I know this post is kind of jumbled and going nowhere. I guess my question is, does anyone have any advice or words of encouragement for dealing with an uncertain future. I am at a complete loss about what I should do right now and the deadline is approaching. If I turn down the offer, I know it doesn’t have to be forever and I could still apply next year, but I have a sinking feeling I wouldn’t be able to get in again. If I go to the program and forgo the surgery, I feel like I won’t really be able to live the type of life that I want.

Anyone else here considering deferring / wanting to defer for a year? I was accepted somewhere, but didn't get funding. I would ideally like to work for 1 more year full time to earn more money, so I won't have to really take out loans. I'm wondering if it's typically possible to defer a doctoral level program or if that's really only for undergraduates? And then of course there is the covid issue. I'm not sure if the school will be back in person by the time fall 2021 starts and i don't really want to pay full price for virtual college. lol.

School: NYU Type: PhD; Counseling Acceptance/Waitlist/Rejection: Rejection Of Course Type of Notification: Email to check portal Date Notified: March 4

Got my official rejection from the Counseling Psych PhD program at NYU. I knew it was coming, so it was good to finally have the confirmation!

Yeah, I got back in touch with UCR and they said they will be sending out decisions from March - May apparently.

Do you know if they are NASP accredited at all? If so, then it might be less of a huge 'gamble' in that, if they are NASP accredited and worst case scenario they didn't get the APA accreditation, you would still have a career as a regular school psychologist to fall back on, if that makes sense. For me, I would look into that as a deciding factor. When is their application deadline by the way.

I sent an email to ask about my status at a couple of programs. I am fairly certain I was rejected from both of them, but just wanted final confirmation. Here are the responses they sent back, in case anyone else still hasn't heard back from either of these schools. They both basically told me a whole lot of nothing. lol. UC Riverside (School Psychology): Thank you for contacting Graduate Admissions at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). To answer your question(s): Please note that during this time each academic program receives a large volume of applications and application materials. It takes time to process each application, and for electronic and paper documents, time to sort, scan and mark each document as received into our online application system. The program to which you applied is updating the information as quickly as possible. Please be patient during this process and allow your program at least 10 business days from receipt of your application and/or materials before following up with an additional email or phone inquiry. Boston College (Counseling Psychology): Thank you for checking in. Faculty are still in the midst of reviewing applications and conducting interviews. If they are interested in interviewing you for the program, you will be notified via email in the next few weeks. Final decisions will be sent out by early March - you will receive an email prompting you to login to your account and view your decision. If you have any questions in the meantime, please let us know.

I'm not 100% sure yet that i will accept it. Still waiting to hear from 1 more school. But I have to say, I was genuinely impressed with the other students that I interviewed with (maybe you were one of them). I would be excited to be classmates with any of them! Congrats to you as well.