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  1. Hello everyone! Long-time lurker, sporadic contributor to the 2-year MSW thread of last year. Congrats to all those who have been accepted to various programs :) I have been accepted to a school, rejected from two schools, and waitlisted at two others - one of my waitlist schools being UofT (like so many of us, it seems). Honestly at this point in my life and my academic career, it doesn't make a huge difference to me which school I attend (I am fortunate in that I will be able to relocate anywhere in the country without it being super hard on my finances, and I have no caregiving responsibilities anymore), and I've only applied to CASWE-accredited schools. I've noticed a big emphasis on UofT in this thread. I understand that it's the number 1 social work grad school in Canada, has a good amount of focus on clinical work, and is close, for those of us who live in the GTA. But I am wondering if there's anything to recommend it beyond those factors. I don't want to take the wind out of anyone's sails if you're waiting on a response from UofT, or applying again next year, or to diminish your achievements if you got in (far be it from me to do so! I think it's an amazing achievement with such stiff competition), but I am wondering if you all know something I don't lol. I am genuinely curious: why is it that people apply year after year almost solely to get into UofT? Is there something very unique about the skills it equips you with? Does it offer more opportunities to its students or graduates? Is it easier to get a position as an MSW in the job market if they see you've gone to UofT? Yeah :) These are all the questions I can think of, but if you can also answer a question I haven't thought to ask, that would also be cool! Good luck to everyone, and don't let this process get you down <3
  2. Hello! Never posted on this forum before; been a lurker on this thread though for a long time. I have applied to clinical psych in the past and never heard back either, from anywhere (no interview, ridiculously protracted wait for an update only to get a rejection). I've applied in the past to several clinical psychology programs in southern Ontario. (Not specifying here because what I'm about to share doesn't sound good for any of these universities in terms of transparency or equity of process.) My application doesn't sound like it was as strong as yours (I didn't have a publication, and I had a very rocky period in my third year of undergrad that affected my grades), but I nonetheless wanted to give you a pointer because I think I've cracked the process after all those years of applying: you've almost certainly got to know the professor you're applying to. A person whose application was less competitive than mine was accepted to a Toronto school because she was already an RA in her prof's lab, and said prof had told her she could join the lab as a grad student as long as her GRE scores were good and she maintained her grades. Yet another person I know was virtually guaranteed a spot on the condition of her maintaining grades etc. In a similar vein, I've heard about profs asking for recommendations about whom to take on as a grad student. All in all, I suspect it is a largely an inside job in many cases. Due to the sheer volume of applications, and the competitiveness of many of them, they find a way to filter people out (without the trouble of interviewing them) and I think they do so in the most unsavoury way. That's to say, I think the process is rigged. Another way to think about this could be that you've got to know and have a good relationship with the professor you're applying to. They and they only are your route to getting in - they can choose to disregard more competitive applications on the basis of familiarity with a certain candidate. You sound very motivated, so you'd probably already do this anyway, but I would try to collaborate with a professor on a publication or get involved in a lab again if you are in fact determined to get into clinical psych above all else. It requires a little manoeuvring and subtlety (I do not have those skills lol) but this is the way I would try if I were to apply again. Hope this helps you, if not practically, then in coming to terms with why getting into clinical psych proved such a challenge (as it does for so many)!
  3. Still waiting to hear from Ryerson, but wasn't interviewed so...
  4. Hi everyone, Have been a lurker so far this application season. Thanks to everyone for constantly updating this page with news! Re: Ryerson. Does this still count as mid-March?? Lol. I was hoping to hear something by Monday at the latest, but haven't heard anything yet. Has anyone had news from Ryerson recently?
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