Yep

Your not going to get red-flagged for asking a question lol

Go to EMU. You clearly made your decision, maybe you just need to feel like it is a valid choice and it IS! ?

Honestly, and this is just my opinion, if you were interviewed then that is indication that the program doesn’t care about your history at all. every applicant, student in a doc program, and faculty constantly reiterate that obtaining an interview at this high of a level (avg doc program stats 100-250 applicants, 15-25 interviews offers, 4-8 applicants accepted) means you are competitive enough and it’s all about fit/ match. If programs had an issue, trust me, they wouldn’t offer an interview invite. You sound like your a good applicant did you apply to lower tier programs, partial funded programs, or non-funded programs? side note: I work for a background check due diligence company and no way the program can obtain that information. Zero chance! (Unless it was criminal)

Varying honestly. Depends on place in the wait list and whether it’s a cumulative waitlist or POI focused. how a lot of people on here treat it is: if you only have waitlist answers, prep for the worst outcome and move on. If you are lucky enough to get in that’s GREAT but prep for the worst now. For example, I honestly just treat waitlists as rejections. I don’t want to play the waiting game. Faculty won’t care if I decide not to email them biweekly on status. They have a set list and if I am next up they will let me know. It’s mentally easier to have that mindset. Time will go faster and if it happens then it might feel better. Don’t sit around, don’t update the results section daily and deal with sadness if someone got in. April 15 deadline is fast approaching and the decision will be made by then.

While some of this stuff is somewhat true. The distinction between the two now is basically the cultural competence aspect and severity of disorders. Research production and ability to be in faculty position now is equal between both counseling and clinical psychology.

Minimal honestly. R1 or R2 Status represent the entire School, not the program itself

The best advice I can give is don’t look particularly at schools. You won’t get interviews that way. i highly suggest focusing on finding faculty in various programs and finding match. Your research fit is VERY Important. You have to refine it and get it to a detailed focus and find faculty that match well are have ket features that you can adapt to your research interest. you sound new to this and that’s exciting. Please take time figuring out what programs are looking for in a applicant. If you need further help, just let me know. I’m glad to help while I’m waiting to move to my new program (counseling psych PHD)

University of Kansas-PH.D in Counseling Psychology ?

NOT AT ALL! If you are motivated go for that PHD it’s worth it!

Yeah idk where you saw that stat but idk if that is true. Most high level programs get their first choices and most psyd programs go into waitlist batch of students and so does low tier programs. Just for example, my program offer 5 offers and all first choices took it so quickly that waitlist people got a waitlist email one day and a rejection email a week later. I wish you the best, waitlist absolutely suck especially the fact that they waitlist multiple people for the same POI.

Personal experience so take it with a grain of salt. I applied to counseling and clinical programs last year and this. I interviewed with 3 programs last year. Didn’t get in to two and one the POI lost funding to another faculty. During the off season, I obtained a new RA position, obtained a better LOR and had a manuscript published. I was a completely different student and got multiple offers that proved that. However, those same 3 schools did not even interview me despite my improvements. if I was to do my application over again, I should have not applied again to those programs. Because I interviewed there, my stats and improvements didn’t matter. they didn’t choose me based on fit and prob felt “no point to interview him again” That’s just my situation.

did you ask the POI why?

I saw on results someone got accepted!

I agree with everyone that replied. The biggest difference between my cycle last year and this was the RA position I got and was able to publish in a journal. I think that helped get me over the hump and I got offers from multiple fully funded counseling PhD programs in comparison to a shitty masters offer when I was rejected from the PHD last year.

From my experience, I noticed a gap of time between acceptances being sent out and waitlist being sent out. I would wait a month and then contact the head of the program (not the POI) for information about waitlist.

Hey, so typically (not 100% of the time) if you don’t get an interview invite you should treat it as a rejection from a PhD program. So For the programs you are waiting on, go to the results page on this site and search the school and the program you applied to. If someone notes they got an interview in January for example, you should treat that as you are rejected. Some people on here may reply and give you false hopes but take it from someone that has experience. It’s almost March, so I believe most clinical PhD programs have sent out interview invites already. Double check on the results page

Objectively, I disagree with almost everything you said lol ? But I think you are looking at it from a clinical Psychology Ph.D outlook rather than a counseling psychology outlook like the original writer was requesting insight in. from my experience, I noticed many applicants in my interviews for counseling psych PHD were from counseling masters and most of the faculty came from a variety of masters level programs, none of which were counseling education (no offense to the writer who mentioned that). If I was to go back in time and redo a masters, I would focus on counseling psych masters at big universities (U of Missouri, KU, UGA, UofKentucky, etc). These type of programs have funding opportunities, research lab opportunities, and train you to be a masters level clinician. In addition, you have higher chances to interview in the programs Doctoral level program and you could have additional advantage since you might know some of the faculty. That’s just my perspective. I believe the faculty that wrote on here really gave all the insight needed to pick a program that will help you succeed. Also! Avoid all for profit schools. Don’t get sucked in

O that’s true. But you also have personal prestige. How you view the school and what you think it will provide in professional settings matters

Don’t hate to say it lol. Prestige is IMPORTANT. Now I don’t agree that you need to go a school in an area you want to be in professional. New York programs Could be considered lower tier programs in comparison to R1 giant programs. Regardless, I respect the prestige factor as something to look at

So much detail already givens I’ll give my personal experience with deciding: I pre rank programs based on research fit, advisor productivity, funding, and area of living. During interviews I focused on environment, feel from the students, and how the faculty interacted with each other. That helped give a sense of what going on. In addition, attitude of faculty with students and vise versa. This is actually quite important. So most students are very nice and supportive. However in actual interviews and interactions with students and the faculty, student typically show their true personality. I had an bad experience with a student in the interview with my POI belittling my mindset going into a program. I held my ground but it ultimately rubbed me the wrong way. After receiving offers, I noticed I naturally already made my decision and I just triple check with my wife that she was happy location wise and BOOM! I picked a program!

That’s fair to do. For me, once I got a high level offer, I took my name off all remaining interviews and considerations just because I thought, I wouldn’t want a POI to consider me and notify another student that he/she is on the wait list.

Personally, I would just focus on speaking to them and their students at the conference. I always feel awkward emailing people I don’t know and especially if the poi doesn’t answer then I feel like I can’t talk to him or her

Seriously!? Give some details. What program would do that. I thought it was guaranteed an offer. I’m surprised the POI had to in the schedule to even call you to reject you. No waitlist either?

Hi, it is totally fine to accept a offer if you did your research on the previous cohorts funding offers and it’s practically guaranteed (but they won’t say it) I was in the same situation as you, I got into my top choice and then got accepted to my #2 and #11 choices. I thought about it and since all were full funded would I even consider the other programs if they offered higher stipends. I decided no and made sure to message the other programs I was pulling my application. The caveat for my situation is my top choice is a big Division 1 R1 program and all students I talked to had full funding and no issues with assistantships I know this is a big conversation on these forums, but my personal opinion is you know more times than not your preferred choice. Is an extra 200 a month in stipend gonna change your mind? If it’s no, then finalize the decision and reject your other offers. I feel this way because our research communities are small and I can make a poor impression on my advisor or the other POIs if I hold my offer for a month or two. Also, I believe faculty talk across programs and so they could know that they both sent offers to the same person. Overall, take some time but try not to wait to April. I know people have outlier experiences but in general don’t hold offers for months.

It’s kind of long. If you want to know you can message me