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School: University of Notre Dame Type of Program: Phd in Quantitative Psychology Acceptance Date: 2/12/2020

Congrats on your admission! Thank you so much for pointing me in a direction in this preparation process! I do have one follow up question on the 4th advice you provided -- my POI has so many publications that there are almost 10 of them are published in 2019, should I go through all of them? Or should I just maybe pick three papers that seemed the most interesting and focus on just these three papers?

Thanks for the advice! I will definitely go and read a bit on SEM.

I was invited to an interview for a quant psych program, and I started to prepare for the interview from answering some common Ph.D. interview questions that I found online. I am wondering what else I could do to prepare for the interview and what to expect from quantitative psychology interviews. One thing that worries me the most about the interview is that I don't understand very much about the techniques that are used in the research of my professor of interest. His research contains uses of factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and item response theory under the context of educational testing. I know some factor analysis, but I am unfamiliar with almost all the other techniques, and I could not make a lot of sense of his recent publications. If I were asked about how my research interest aligns with his, then I will only be able to expand on why I am interested in investigating educational testing, and that I would love to learn the quantitative methods that are associated with educational testing. I did have some research experience that utilizes multiple regression, but it is nowhere near the complexity of the research that the professor is doing. Should I spend some time to learn structural equation modeling and item response theory, given that I will have maybe a week to prepare for this interview? Should I just focus on be prepared to talk about my own research instead? Please help!

Thank you so very much! I have just talked to my advisor and have decided to withdraw from the course.

Another concern is that if I withdraw from the this analysis class, then I might have too many Ws on my transcript because then I will have 3 Ws and 2 of which happens in my junior year. If this is the case, is it still best to withdraw from real analysis?

I am a junior double majoring in math and psych, thinking to apply for masters in stat or Ph.D. in quantitative psych. I am currently struggling in real analysis - I handwritten the class notes two times, and still cannot do a single homework problem. I just cannot do proofs no matter how hard I try. I spent days trying to understand the definitions, but I just cannot use them. To the point where I know what the problem is asking and I can write down the relevant definitions word by word, but I just cannot formulate rigorous proofs. I don't know what else I could do except withdrawing from the class. But I had one withdraw from freshmen year (an econ class), and another from last semester (a philosophy class) - I wonder how bad does it look if I have another W on my transcript. By memorizing the HW solutions, I could probably get a C in this analysis class. I am currently having a 3.61 GPA. All my other classes are fine. Should I withdraw from the course?

I am a junior double majoring in math and psych, thinking to apply for masters in stat or Ph.D. in quantitative psych. I am currently struggling in real analysis - I handwritten the class notes two times, and still cannot do a single homework problem. I just cannot do proofs no matter how hard I try. I spent days trying to understand the definitions, but I just cannot use them. To the point where I know what the problem is asking and I can write down the relevant definitions word by word, but I just cannot formulate rigorous proofs. I don't know what else I could do except withdrawing from the class. But I had one withdraw from freshmen year (an econ class), and another from last semester (a philosophy class) - I wonder how bad does it look if I have another W on my transcript. By memorizing the HW solutions, I could probably get a C in this analysis class. I am currently having a 3.61 GPA. All my other classes are fine. Should I withdraw from the course?

Thank you! This is daunting to hear, but it is necessary to know!

Thank you! This is exactly what I need to know!

Thanks for the warning! The professor with whom I talked last semester just informed me that I might have to move to undesirable places if I wish to continue my study, but I will investigate further with other professors next semester.

I was thinking about your suggestion that it is obligatory to not go into academic philosophy. I want to know more about this - what is the current situation in academic philosophy?

I’ll definitely look into it! Thank you!

Thank you! This is very help!

Thanks for this advice! This is really helpful!