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I'd love this info too. Could you pm me too? (If you don't just post the responses)

Would the two of you mind pming me your POIs as well? Thanks

My understanding from many PhD students is that a masters typically is used by people with lower undergrad gpas. This being said, yea, I have heard mixed feelings regarding getting a masters before PhD (separately and not simply along the way during your PhD program) - it seems to really vary from person to person, kind of like the importance of GRE - some professors use them a lot (or too much, depending on who you ask), and some find the notion of using them as a major deciding factor as being silly. There is probably no real good suggestion here, form what I have gathered at least.

I just finished my undergrad there. What I can tell you is that some of the clonic professors, one in particular, sends his invites and such out later than most of his colleagues. He once told me that it can be as much as a month after.

Anyone who got interview or contact from Carnegie Mellon for social psych, can you pm me the POI name?

Funding is a whole different animal. While I am not entirely sure of how it all works, I know that I would be totally ok not taking a stipend, but receiving admission, and almost wish that I could have said that or conveyed that in my personal statement, but hindsight is always 20/20 (and I am not sure if that is even appropriate to do). Though I would want the tuition wiaver haha just sayin'. I just have never really dealt with rejection of importance, so this hurts a lot haha. I basically had my year set up like, "Ok well in July/Aug I move to X for school and start grad studies." Now it becomes, "How serious of a job do I begin to look for right now (to prevent myself from being not only jobless but school-less come the end of admissions decisions)..what if I need to apply next year? Do I just go for masters and then PhD? Why don't they love me?" I applied to 9 schools, and I am wondering if that was to few, considering that I had like 3/4 top tier schools on that list. I have seen other people's lists, and noticed that they have various schools that I would never have even thought of - granted I know that things like specialty, interests, location, etc can be factors, but I feel like my list was kind of loaded from the get-go, with a few "safety" schools, but now I even wonder how safety they are, considering that all I have seen so far is rejection lol

Yea - SO MUCH THIS! I am at this point - I thought that I was all but guaranteed interviews at two schools that I apparently got rejected from (No official rejection, but have been contacted by people who have received invite for same mentor/school said that they sent out invites already). It hurts...BAD. I had been told what a great candidate I was by the Stony Brook faculty, so I had this like, not arrogance, but confidence that I would get interviews at the very least. So far, that has proven to be quite a disappointment, and makes me feel either inadequate or like I aimed too high with my school list.

You guys are amazing. I JUST found out today that I did not get into Temple (reasonable safe to conclude at this point) - I wanted to check up on when my schools (Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Temple, Boulder, New Mexico, SUNY Buffalo, Syracuse, URI) were beginning the invite process. I saw on Temple's website that the interviews were being conducted Jan 16 - and was like woah, that is in 10 days. Until today I was pretty sure that I would at least get an invite, coming from Stony Brook with a high gpa, lots of research and TA experience, and shining recommendations from well known psychologists - boy was that bubble burst haha. Until I found you guys, I was pretty butt-hurt, and started to be all, "well if I didn't get in to Temple, I can say goodbye to Georgetown, Princeton, Boulder, Carnegie, and maybe UNM)," but the wise grad student overseeing my current research project explained to me that she was rejected from St John's and other lower tier schools, yet got accepted to Stony Brook (clinical), and I mean I know that it is all about fit and such, but man, I def feel the salt. TLDR; Temple apparently did phone notifications over vacation break, and I did not get one :((((