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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.

Just wait until you get the follow up email. It will have more details. Mine came about 2 days after the portal update.

Wondering if anyone has heard anything from the St. John's University PsyD program? I was invited for the interview, but haven't gotten an admissions decision yet. It's still very early, I know. Just wondering if decisions are going out yet.

Accepted into University of Colorado PsyD!

In all honesty, if I were in your position, I would just wait it out. I would not contact the program about it because I feel like it would come off a bit wrong. Things get misinterpreted over email and I wouldn't want to take the chance. Chances are, you WILL hear from the other programs by March 15.

If it's not mentioned on the school's website at all, I wouldn't send it because they probably don't want it. If it says on the website that it's optional, then I would definitely send it because I think it will be taken into account and your score is not a bad score. What school are you applying to?

I have some questions regarding the NASP convention from those who have been before. I did not attend last year, but I'm thinking of going this year. Anyway, one question I have is how beneficial is the convention for students? Those who have attended, did you feel like there was a lot there for you or was it really more about those who are already practicing? Is there a lot of opportunity to look for internships / jobs at the convention? Do they have tables there for it (sort of like a job fair situation)? One of the main reasons I would like to go is so that I can network with some people (hopefully from other states) to try and land an internship in a location that I want.

Your credentials are perfectly fine. The Quant could definitely be higher. That is one weak point. Having teaching experience is very good. You don't really need research experience. It would be nice if you had at least taken an undergraduate course with a research focus (like an experimental psychology type of course), but even so, you seem to be a good candidate. Also, keep in mind that with the EdS, you can really do your internship just about anywhere in the country. I know in my program, we get emails all the time about internships in Colorado and Washington (most of them are paid), and our program is in Texas. South Florida certainly isn't the only place with paid internships for school psych students. Not by a long shot.

I was able to find this information on the Maryland website. "Note to Those with Completed Specialist Training in School Psychology: Although individual circumstances vary, students who have previously completed specialist-level preparation as a school psychologist may expect programs that require four years of full-time study at Maryland (including internship); in unusual cases the program for such students can be completed in three years total. The internship year does not, necessarily, require the student to remain in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area." So, that is helpful. It at least states to me that they have had students go this route before, enough that they added that to their website.

Is this really something that people are allowed to do? I did not know that! I am currently in my second year of my program, so all I have left is one more semester and then I go out for my full time internship next year.

So, I am currently in a specialist level program in school psychology (69 hours, SSP | MA/CAGS level). When I went into the program, I was uncertain about ever getting my doctoral degree, for various reasons, so I decided to go into the specialist level. Now, I am more sure of what I want. My ultimate goal is to go back to school after this program and get my doctorate in psychology (PhD/PsyD). I am hoping to get it in either school psychology or counseling psychology. I am leaning heavily toward school psychology, obviously. So, my question is, how many of you guys have gone this route (getting the specialist or masters degree first and then going on to a PhD in school psych)? Do you have any advice for someone looking to go this route? I have seen / spoken to a few programs (such as UNC-Chapel Hill, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, St. John's University, and a few others) where they have said that having the specialist degree will give me advanced standing and I will be able to complete the program in a shorter amount of time. The program at UNC-Chapel Hill is designed for students who already have the specialist degree, so it is a shorter program to begin with. Do you guys know of other schools like this? Any help is appreciated.