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With the assumption/hope that by 4th year you will have the balls to tolerate the drastically different environment of SDN vs GC It's really an exercise to separate out the fluff on that site.

Great school/program, congrats!

I'm starting to feel like Rutgers is not in the cards for me, but I can't help still holding on to hope. Meanwhile, Springfield's interviews are either this Friday or next Friday and no one has heard back. Go figure.

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Springfield is kinda getting me worried. Their interview dates are 2/15 and 2/22 so they're kind of cutting it close.........

This is a mood. One of my programs: "You'll hear from us the first week of February". Well, here it is, and I still haven't heard! But there's two more days in the week so ehhh??

I've been wearing a blouse and slacks. No suits for me. Most folks tend to wear suits. I'm just at a point in my life where I feel much more comfortable without, and would prefer a program that isn't going to ding me on something as silly as whether I wore a suit vs a blouse

I was half of the posts about William James lol. I get a little defensive about people judging others' choices.

I haven't heard yet. The prof I contacted (2 weeks ago) told me we would hear back the first week of February (this week), so hopefully we'll know soon!!

That's exactly how I feel haha. I just wish some of my programs would go ahead and reject me already - at least then I would have some finality and stop hoping.

So. I know Drexel interviews are like, two days from now. And I know I am probably rejected with 99.999999% certainty (because duh, interviews in 2 days). But some dumb part of my brain is still thinking, "Wait but what if they just messed up and they really meant to invite you?!?!?!" Haha...... ?

This is completely unrelated, but DAMN your profile picture gives me such anxiety hahaha.

Refreshing GradCafe obsessively. Watching Netflix nonstop. Cleaning the house (!!!!!!)

Yikessss that blurb about UCF on the results page......

They sent out mass emails last week. I'm still crossing my fingers that mine just got lost...

Poster on the results page who said they got an invite to William Paterson - when was this? Did you really get it on Feb 4? I thought their invites were all sent out.

School: William James College Concentration: Clinical Type: PsyD Date of acceptance: 02/05/19 Notified by: email to check admissions portal

The POIs take care of their own interviews and make their own acceptance/rejection decisions. I'm not sure if the Skype interviews are the ONLY ones they do, or if some POIs ask for you to come in person. Either way, there is no one day where all candidates come to interview with a structured schedule.

I think as long as you're confident and clean, it should be fine. I had a person in my interview group who wore a neon orange suit jacket and she ROCKED it.

Harvard doesn't have official interview days.

Yeah but that poster was for Rutgers' School PsyD maybe that's where the misleading info came from - 2/18 must be Clinical and 2/21 must be School? EDIT: I just checked CUDCP's calendar, and that seems to be the case - 2/18 is Clinical and 2/21 is School: https://teamup.com/ks952632ef38687f3e

Yikes. Someone told me they had called and they were on 2/18 and 2/21. This was MONTHS ago though so maybe the info was wrong (or they called the wrong program hah). Boo. No interview for me then haha.

I replied right away to thank them, but also let them know I still had interviews and would get back to them as soon as they were done.

Saw someone got an interview to Rutgers PsyD ahhhh. I know they have 2 interview dates so I'm just crossing my fingers I'm in the second wave haha.

Has to do with level of training. For 7 Cups in particular, the "training" is literally clicking through a set of pages with information. Some folks don't even read it. There is no accurate test of knowledge (there's a fill in the blank quiz but it's nigh impossible to fail). There are no training sessions with live people. There's very little oversight and supervision. I used to be part of their "internship" program and most of my duties were spamming promotions on social media, posting random replies in the forum, etc. I've also been on the opposite end as someone seeking support and whew, the lack of training and oversight shows in the damaging responses I've received. It's not an isolated case either; I've spoken with several groups of colleagues about this and the verdict is clear: thank u next. 7 Cups is not the only platform which has this issue, but it is definitely the one that my colleagues and I agreed is damaging and we do not agree with it's model. NAMI's "support groups" used to be really bad too, but kudos to them - they increased their training requirements and are doing much better now, so I can support many of their initiatives. CTL is better in that they have much better training - it's longer and you have to do observations and mock conversations before they let you handle "real" people, I believe. That said, i personally feel powerless in true "crisis" situations. Like, I would love to give you a referral to a local shelter or tell you about an MCOT, but..... I can't. All I can do is nod and say, "It sounds like you're really having a tough time." I question whether venting is truly beneficial for folks who are in crisis and desperate enough to text an anonymous line.