therapeutic turtle

I applied to 8 programs. I got 3 interviews, 1 waitlist, and 2 acceptances in clinical psych. I took the GRE before applying to MA programs and before applying to PhD programs. My scores stayed exactly the same both times, despite a rigorous study program the 2nd time. Verbal-163 92% Quant-146 25% AW-4 56% I had some poster presentations, a 3.77 UG GPA, and a 3.95 grad GPA for my MA when I applied this year. I think a strong research fit and good interviews helped me gain my acceptances, despite being somewhat underwhelming on paper. I also had a 3.9 in my psych stats course despite my poor quant score.

Thank you for all the feedback. I guess if my identification of POIs only in my essays was good enough then I may get in this year, if not then I choose to apply for a second round I will reach out to some via email prior to applying.

Submit them right now. I missed a "priority deadline" for a program due to being a perfectionist and having high anxiety so before the general deadline I went somewhere that wasn't my house, opened a work doc and said "I'm not leaving here until I submit whatever I have". I wrote, read it aloud, made some edits, read it through once more, and submitted it within 2 hours, and I got an interview at that program. Was it my best work, no but it was in. You can do it too, just tell yourself done is better than perfect. You may have a 3% chance with a late app but you have a 0% chance without one.

I thought I was very diligent to study the process before I applied to PhD programs, but I'm afraid I may have made a fatal mistake. I applied to 8 programs, have 2 interview, 1 rejection, and 0 POIs. I keep seeing everywhere that other students emailing back and forth and received invites from their POIs, but I never contacted one and my interview invites were from program directors. I did identify in my personal statements certain faculty I felt were a good research fit, but I never contacted them. I know several are taking students this year because that information was available online. Has anyone ever been as stupid as me and still gotten in or am I doomed?