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  1. bdeck
    Hi Jasbee, I work at UPENN and I am close to people in the department. Told me all interviews have gone out. I also received an email from the admissions coordinator. If you want to ask yourself, email Clay: http://www.med.upenn.edu/ngg/NGGExecutiveStaff.shtml Ben
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    Has anyone received rejections from either NYU neural science or Brown NGG? Still waiting for UPENN psych (if anyone has info here or has been rejected let me know) Interviews: UM Baltimore, UM College Park, Icahn School of Med (Mt. Sinai), Georgetown, Drexel, Thomas Jefferson, CUNY Rejected: Penn NGG
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    Just heard from UPENN NGG directly, the last of the interviews will be going out within a week! hoping for another from my top choice!!
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    Agreed, I wouldn't give up hope. I know people on the admissions committee and told me that they are still reviewing. Their process is to review in teams of two and if those two cannot determine it goes to a tie-breaker third. Apparently this process isn't done at the same speed for all people on the committee. We still have hope! Applied (11): UM Baltimore, UM College Park, Mt. Sinai, UPENN, Brown, NYU, Penn State Hershey, Georgetown, CUNY, Thomas Jefferson, Drexel Interviews (4/11): UM College Park, Mt. Sinai, Georgetown, Thomas Jefferson Rejected (0/11):
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    Same please!!
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    So have all the interview for BU been dished out?
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    Unless I'm incorrect i believe the previous poster was incorrect and correct themselves, I don't believe BU has put out invitations yet.
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    Same track and same reasoning.
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    Past month has been anxiety ridden
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    NOPE
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    Very similar situation for myself also, I just chose not to report my psych gre. My neuro/bio percentile score was like 90th percentile or something like that but my social was around 20-30th
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    I just received a message from McGill that invitations will go out between now and mid-February, sorry no more clarification
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    Could anyone who received a drexel interview private message me with their poi?
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    Could Drexel interviewers pm me with poi's??? Also any word on BU or Fordham?
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    Has anyone gotten formal rejection letters? I have only gotten one rejection from my POI but haven't received any formal rejection emails or letters. Is this abnormal?
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    Anyone here back from Boston U or Fordham?
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    This is giving me hope to hold out for a week or so longer before I start feeling more miserable! Thank you
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    Has anybody heard back from UI Chicago?
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    When did you hear back from Drexel?
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    I applied to 13 programs, because Phd in clinical psych is tremendously competitive (approx. 3% acceptance rate at the lesser competitive schools). With GRE scores =$216, taking the GRE (took it twice) = $450ish, GRE subject test= $200, average application cost is about $100 for each school. So quick math here say about $2,166. Obviously this is a product of how competitive grad school in Psych has recently become. Also this doesn't take into account the schools with which I will need to fly to for interviews, granted I get some of course. Schools applying to: BU, UCONN, Yale, Drexel, WashU, Fordham, Penn State, UToronto, McGill, Kent State, UI-Urbana Champaign, UI Chicago. Hope this helps!
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    I appreciate you thinking my profile fairs well. It's nice to hear, considering that I am highly critical of myself. I am not applying to top ranked programs for a number of reasons. 1). I was originally applying to Yale but the professor I want to work with retired :(. 2) most ivy league universities do not have neuropsychology staff ( from the faculty I have talked to at Penn they believe it is because the research doesn't bring in enough money and that their method to making money is highly experimental while neuropsych is observational in many facets. I would love to go to Penn and stay in Philly both of which I love and have made a home of. Also the CAMB program that you were accepted into is fantastic. I have friends in that program and they love it. Also if your'e interested in neurodegeneration Penn is the place to be with the likes of Trojanowski and Lee! Though it looks like you're into cancer bio which Penn has the Wistar institute which is nothing to snuff at!
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    University of Toronto I believe requires the GRE. http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/psych/maphd-degree-counselling-and-clinical-psychology-field-clinical-psychology For clinical psych that is^^^^^^^
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    Most of my course work was molecular biology etc including bio/chem courses. Molecular biology is my background and at Temple, where I attended my undergrad it was a similar situation. Bio/Chem courses had no curve on any tests, nor did my neuro courses. Funny enough, the easier courses in Psych had curves. Don't really understand that one but okay. I know that the GRE is by far my weakest point and I have actually been doing everything that you just suggested before coming here and posting. I take the GRE again on the 30th so I'm hoping to score 160 or above on each. I think it would be horrid if the GRE holds me back from a school I believe I would otherwise be admitted to. Thanks for the help!
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    I am retaking the GRE at the end of this month and have been studying rigorously for 3 months. Past two have been 4-5 hours every day. Keep in mind I work 50+ hours a week at Penn. I also was thinking that my gpa wasn't so low if you take into consideration the type of courses I had to take as a bio/neuroscience major compared to a normal psychology degree. Thanks for the advice!
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    I have a low gre score for quant 152 and 157 on comp, analytical is 4.5. I have obtained a 3.61 gpa in neuroscience and I have submitted two papers for publishing (haven't been accepted yet) and I have presented at 6 different international conferences. I Work at the University of Pennsylvania with a clinical population in neuropsych (the field I plan to work in) but I am worried that my gre scores will hold me back from getting into a good phd program in psychology. I have good letters of recommendation from prolific well respected authors of their fields. I have worked so hard to make my application as strong as possible so that lower gre scores aren't a problem. I'm still concerned about my scores though. Any thoughts would be helpful! Schools I am applying to: UCONN BU Drexel Fordham Kent State Penn State Washington U in St. Louis University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign University of Toronto and McGill
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