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    2017 Fall
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    Clinical Psychology

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  1. If you are looking at Clinical Program there is a faculty member at the University of Montana that studies Substance Use in the LGBTQ+ communities
  2. The University of North Carolina at Wilmington has a specific Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders Track. It also depends on what you are looking at doing within the field, i.e. personality and substance use disorders, stigma related to substance use disorders, treatment research, etc. Others that stand out as having strong substance use research are Arizona State, New Mexico, Texas Tech, Pittsburgh,Wayne State.... I hate to say it but the best way is to put some effort in and look the labs up. Just because someone is researching substance use doesn't mean that they are examining it in a way that you would be interested in. It takes reading past and current research. The best way to find that is to google the universities you are interested in and read through all of the faculty members research. It is time consuming but it can really narrow down what you are interested in doing.
  3. The earliest I started seeing it last year was early in the summer.The majority of them had websites updated around September when applications started opening up. A lot of the schools never even updated who was accepting students. I got the best results emailing individual faculty members I was interested in working with over the summer. Some never replied but a lot of them did.
  4. I agree with NeisserThanILook, when I received my phone acceptance I told them I would accept an offer as soon as the official letter was sent. And like the previous poster my official letter was sent through the application portal and I was never notified of it via email. I had to contact the Department Coordinator.
  5. School: Illinois Institute of Technology Program Clinical Psych (Rehab Track) Reason: Accepted into a program with funding. Would have loved to work with my POI at IIT but the lack of funding is too much for me.
  6. I kept all of my old stats books so I could brush up on the basic stuff. I also TAd for an undergrad stats course a year and a half after I took it. I didn't remember anything going in to it. Then after reviewing some material it was like riding a bike. It came back to me relatively quickly. If you kept any of your old books, go through them and find some problems. Try working them out, if you don't remember how to do them, reread the chapter. If you didn't keep your old books, look up problem sets online.
  7. Haha, nothing in particular, just looking back and reading through the results. I think sometimes it is just difficult to be perceived "not good enough," for a program. Different people handle it in different ways. Some I understand and others are extremely prideful.
  8. That worries me as well. It is pretty interesting to see Weiner's Attribution Theory at work on something as small as a result post though. I think the little things like that have taught me that I personally fit in in a much more laid back type of environment. One that of course pushes for success but isn't as cut throat competitive within the program.
  9. Some of these comments on the results page have me wondering if I have the hubris to make it in this field.
  10. The day after my last interview I already have a celebratory tattoo session scheduled. What perfect timing for a tax refund to come in this year!
  11. No, it does not look bad. If you know you are going to accept an offer somewhere else don't take up the space at another university. They may be able to interview another individual. It is the same as it being taboo to hold on to more than 2 offers at once. I think going to an interview at a university you know you don't want to attend looks bad on applicants.
  12. I may be way off here, or maybe it is just my outlook on life, but I think that where I obtain my PhD. will not determine where I end up in the long run. Maybe in the short term prestigious universities can help. My thinking is that no matter where I land my first job, if I have well thought out research that is relative to advancing knowledge and my field, obtain grants for said research, and publish, I will be able to obtain tenure track positions at great universities. I understand the it's not what you know it's who you know to a certain extent. I also understand that who I know has little to do with the work and effort I plan on putting in to my future. To me the best fitting school will be one that truly encourages growth. I would much work under someone at a "less prestigious," university that truly understands and pushes me than someone at a "higher rated," university that doesn't quite fit who I am
  13. Awesome, thanks for the advice. I know one is at a brewery so I am not thinking that will be very formal.
  14. Many of the schools have socials the night before. Are the guys wearing suits to the social or going more business casual? I only plan on bringing one suit to my upcoming interviews and don't want to wear two days in a row at each interview. I don't have the time to dry clean it between my interviews.
  15. There are a million different ways to rank a school. I think if you want to be purely analytical you could assign weights to each category, the higher the weight the more important the category. Then go through and rank each school by category and do a sum, average, etc. etc. It may be my inner hippie speaking but after all my interviews I plan on sitting alone for an hour or two and really get down to how I feel about each school. Of course different categories will come into play when internally weighing a decision but I feel that within my consciousness I will know my answer. Maybe your method is somewhere between a more "concrete" approach and a more "gut" feeling approach. There is a million ways to come up with it, I believe all of us will choose the school in which we are supposed to be at. Will they all be a perfect five years, no, but they I think we will turn up where we are supposed to be in that moment.
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