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  1. Have you contacted the PI you applied under? I hadn't heard anything either until I reached out to them (waitlist, btw) :). I got an inkling of suspicion that they're currently contacting waitlisted people this week to fill remaining spots.
  2. This was really helpful, thanks! I'm looking more into school psychology PhDs right now and not clinical psych ( btw, congrats on your acceptance! ), but everything you mentioned seems pretty applicable to most Ph.D. programs. I'll have 1.5 years of combined lab experience by the time I graduate, but I'm sticking with at least one of them for a little while longer. I PM'd you some further questions!
  3. @Hk328 @CgnNrs thanks for the advice!! One of the labs I'm working at right now might potentially lead to at least a poster + publication ( going to talk about it soon with the grad student I work with ); I'll be on the lookout for research positions though!
  4. Hi all, I know there are a plethora of these posts out there, but they've seemed pretty helpful and I am, as the title states, overwhelmed. The run-down: I'm a current undergrad (psychology major and linguistics minor) set to graduate this June at UCSD; my GPA isn't the most stellar (3.5 Cumulative, 3.6 Psych) and I've yet to take the GRE. I ended up finishing all my coursework a year early due to funds and I'm planning to use that "fourth" year as a gap year so I can continue working at the two labs I'm currently involved in and figure out if I want to pursue psycholinguistics/ applied psych or school psych. One is more clinical and I mostly just help monitor assessments on children at risk for autism, while the other is more research-based and is focused on psycholinguistics, but I haven't been involved in any presentations or publications as of current. Volunteer-wise, I help out at the LGBTQ center on campus and I'm on the board for an org that sends undergrad volunteers out to partners schools around the city to work in classrooms and after-school programs. The problem(s): I'd really like to go to grad school in the future, but I feel like my experience and whatnot is inadequate compared to what I've seen from other applicants. As I mentioned before, I'll be taking the 2018-2019 year to continue working at my UG labs, but other than that I'm kind of lost. I definitely have to find a full-time job to support myself since I'm not originally from the area and have to rely on my own funds to repay my loans and rent, but relevant jobs I have found in psychology or teaching have all required reliable transportation ( aka a car ), which I don't have right now. I definitely don't mind just taking any job to pay the bills and beefing up my resume with volunteer experience, though. What should I do in my gap year to spruce up my admission chances? Is it important for my FT job to be relevant to psychology- in other words, will it hurt my application if it isn't? I appreciate any suggestions, advice, or comments!
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