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U-Heights rent has gone up over time. The cheapest they have currently is about $900 + electricity and internet for a 1bed/1bath. It is the cheapest apartment complex 1 bedroom in Cville as far as I know. I lived there and it's fine. Kitchen is pretty small and not the nicest but living room actually pretty decent sized imo. They take pets and are walking distance to campus. Used to have a bus to campus but since COVID that route has been cancelled. IDK if it will ever come back (I hope it will...). Most other Cville apartment complexes the lowest rent is $1250/month. That being said they're pretty nice imo if you can pay north of $1300/month for a 1 bedroom. You might find cheaper rent with an individual landlord, but also more difficult in pandemic times.

From a clinical prof at the University of Virginia: "If you're considering applying to the clinical psychology program at @UVAPsyc this year, please note that our program may not recruit a class for the 2021-2022 academic year. Please check back on the program website in October before you apply. https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/research-areas/clinical-psychology " From the department (twitter account): "To all potential applicants: please reach out to individual PIs before applying! @UVAPsyc will be recruiting at the graduate level, but due to COVID-19, not all labs/specializations will be admitting graduate students"

I will update this in case it helps anyone in the future. Told my PI that I would be taking a calendar year off and he was concerned for my wellbeing but very supportive. Got the leave officially approved by the Dean. Apparently the policy changed so grad students can take up to 2 years off without having to reapply (and then reapplying is apparently more of a formality). So yay. Still not sure how it impacts something like the NSF GRFP, but I'm a lot less worried now.

I am going in knowing that I will have to take the first summer and the first semester of my second year off (maybe more...) to recover from major surgery. And possibly have a few smaller surgeries after that. The grad policy gives me one semester of medical leave and I am definitely worried about how this time off will impact my learning, my work, and applying for things like the NSF GRFP. Also worried what happens if I have complications and/or need more time to heal than the one-semester the grad policy gives me. I'm not sure how to tell my advisor that surprise! his new student is going to be MIA for the first summer and half of his second year... Anyone else had to take time off (a semester or more) and how did that go for you?

Developmental Psychology!

I'll be attending the University of Virginia for their developmental psychology PhD Self-imposed a torturous decision process after getting off a waitlist last minute, but think UVa will offer me the best personal support, opportunities to explore teaching, and ability to influence the lab's research directions.

I was offered a spot to a program last cycle. A combo of research interests, a poor funding offer, and a commute from hell led me to turn it down. I took a job as a lab manager studying vision development in children with eye tracking. Not exactly my main interests, but it helped me build programming and eye tracking skills and strengthened my application. It was hard to turn down an offer when I had been told "all you need is one yes", but I am SO glad I did. Even though over the year I realized the research interests of the offer I turned down were more on point than I thought, I am still glad. This cycle I had many interviews and multiple offers. It's a hard choice, but if you are set on a population and/or a method, and the PhD offer doesn't offer that, then I would consider turning it down and taking a job that will strengthen your application. Also, after the year working, I applied to different schools my second cycle because my research interests changed some. Two schools who rejected me last time accepted me this time under a different PI.

School: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Concentration: Cognitive Type: Ph.D. Date of Acceptance: April 12th Notified: Email, accepted off the waitlist. $20,200 stipend (TA-ship) with $2,000 summer funding. Health insurance covered by funding package. ~$950 fees/semester Trying to decide between here and UVa tomorrow (4/13) to free up a waitlist spot.

If you were waitlisted for an interview (and thus have not interviewed, I assume), then it is pretty much over for that school. Especially if you've not heard any other response. I would move on, unfortunately.

Pretty common in my experience. If the POI told you that, it's pretty much over, unfortunately.

Very cool. Curious who you'll be working with, if you care to share.

POI at Penn State emailed today that she tried everything she could but isn't able to get me off the waitlist. Nothing I could've done or wrong with me as a candidate, funding and resource issues out of her control. We're both very disappointed. Feeling a bit devastated as this was my top choice and POI had called me very excited the day after the interview. Sounded like an acceptance over the phone. Teaches me to get my hopes up ? Still have (some? I guess) hope of getting off UNC's waitlist. I have two solid options but still, just feel very disappointed.

No I don't know, sorry.

My PI is a reviewer for NSF GRFPs and was just given a new stack to go through, so it sounds like reviews are ongoing.

I'm having a similar debate. One of the schools/departments I'm considering is ranked in the 100s, another is 17. I'm hoping to go into academia. So many factors...