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Is your Master's program connected to a school that has a PhD in clinical psych already? That would improve your chances (as long as the school doesn't have a policy against taking students from their own Master's program). If not, you should hopefully have a lot more publications and research experience if your Master's program has been research intensive, which would help. Have you also practiced your interviewing skills? If you were rejected after the interview phase, that might be why. If you were rejected at the outset, perhaps it was your letters or the quality of research involvement, both of which will hopefully be rectified by your time in your Master's program. Ultimately, I think your Master's program has more of a chance of helping than hindering you. Good luck!

Any Fall 2016'ers? I'm starting the MA in Clinical Psychology program then.

I'm moving from the east coast to close to the west coast! I understand your anxiety; I have a spouse and two kids as well. What we've found to be helpful is scouting out where we're going to live (based on which schools we wanted the kiddies to go to), and scoping out the houses on Zillow and Realtor.com. With Google maps, you can even look at all the neighborhoods and everything, which takes the unknown out of the equation (not completely, but still).

Accepted into the UCCS Masters in Clinical Psychology program for Fall 2016! Email came this morning from the program assistant. I'm ecstatic!! Good luck to all!

I'm doing the clinical track! I think it's 8-10 for the clinical track and 2-5 for the experimental track, so about 10-15 out of 80-100 applicants. I spoke to the admissions office yesterday and they said they're still deliberating. The program coordinator hopes to hear back in mid-Feb, after which he'll email everyone. Good luck to you!

If anyone else is waiting on the clinical psych Master's program at UCCS, I called them today. The program assistant said the department was still reviewing applications and would likely be finished with that in mid-February. He'll send out decision emails at that point. Hope that helps someone!

Depends on the program, I think. My program encouraged people to identify one POI, which is what I did (and reached out to before submitting an application). They also asked for an optional top 3 list of POIs, which I completed as well.

I'm waiting to hear from the Masters program at UCCS. (Glad to see someone else is as well, @cinderellacomplex!) Hopefully soon! The contact there said early February... ?