PsychApplicantFall2019
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VG/G, E/E, E/VG - awarded
I feel a little undeserving of the award after reading the feedback of the reviewers.
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@notthatkindofpsychology I agree with what @Psyhopeful has said. The PI will update you if there is any information to share. They definitely won't just forget about making offers to potential graduate students. I want to add that the PI is likely also anxious about getting a student to accept their offer. Asking for an update will likely not be helpful for you, and it will also likely be stressful for the PI.
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How do other people feel about going to work with a brand new PI? I am deciding between different alternatives.
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I keep checking this website as if it will make the next few weeks pass by more quickly...
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I feel incredibly fortunate. I have been accepted to a program that I would be happy to attend. I also just submitted a manuscript that I have been working on forever. But, the process is not going to be over for at least a month, and I am dreading everything. I am so ready for this to be over.
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@Sophie Su I haven’t seen anything in the results page, but I also got an email saying my GRE had been received.
I am not sure what people have meant by mass email. All of the invites I have gotten have been personally addressed. Does it just mean that it isn’t from the PI? My gut says that when the graduate program coordinator emails about travel arrangements that is when all interview invites have been made.
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7 minutes ago, hopefulgrad2019 said:
Our government is shutdown so that means TSA employees aren’t being paid (and all government employees except congress and the executive branch essentially) sooo in theory they could go on strike.
This not actually what’s going on. The US is currently in a partial government shutdown. Over 60% of government employees are not furloughed or working without paychecks. That is because the DOD (by far the largest federal employer) is funded for fiscal year 2019.
To to the point, though, the problem with the TSA right now is that the employees are required to work during the shutdown (most government employees are just not currently working). A lot of TSA agents are calling out sick, so it is causing airports to close TSA check points are dramatically increasing the wait time to get through the checkpoints.
I also want to point out that the TSA employees are not exactly working without pay. They will get paid retroactively when the government reopens. It can definitely be hard on families who do not have a lot in savings, but they aren’t working for free.
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@NeuroNerd101 I didn't apply to UCLA, but there has been some discussion about it in the Developmental Psychology thread.
@HAC @Hk328 @InfiniteLoop Thank you for your tips!
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How much does everyone plan on reading before the interviews? I kind of feel that the ideal would be to have read every paper/book written within my area of interest. Obviously, that is not the expectation! So, how much is the "good enough" to sound knowledgable about the PI's work and the field?
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@junior313 Similar to what @1996kayden has said, I am under the impression (I don't actually know for sure) that different schools handle rejections differently. It seems that a few have sent the rejections around the time that they extended interview invites. My guess is that the ones that don't do this are going to wait until the official admissions offers are made and send the rejections then.
My personal opinion is that you should not ask about your application status at any point unless there is a really good reason to do so.
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@paraent I am only going to address a small part of your concern, but I would not put to much stock in how you feel the interview went. I understand that it can feel really bad, but the faculty may have a totally different impression than you have.
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@wrongpathos I think that is good advice.
Although I do wish that I had known way sooner, it is really exciting to see the modeling and computational methods in our field.
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@MingjiaPsych It sounds like you have a great rational for applying to the cognitive science department, and I really hope that I get to see you at the interview. It seems that we have related interests. If you wanted to chat more, you are welcome to PM me.
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@theremixtocognition I have heard back from Emory, but I didn't apply to Northwestern.
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@neuroinformagical I think Cognitive Science programs are pretty uncommon. The reason JHU has it is for a funny historical reason that I didn't fully follow when it was explained to me. I think it has something to do with linguistics, but I don't really know. At JHU, from what I understand, the admissions process for cog sci and psych work fairly similar. The timelines are just different.
On whether you should be worrying: Different schools have different timelines, and the particular schools you applied to may not have sent out interview invites yet. You can look at the results page to see if your programs have, but I would even be a little wary about that. I saw that one of my schools had sent out invites from the results page, so I had figured that I was rejected, but I did get one a week or so later!
@round2_ I think you are right that for the most part the track (social/developmental/cognitive/whatever other name the department chooses) doesn't matter, but I think that for a lot of programs the clinical decisions are completely separate and on a separate timeline.
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@neuroinformagical Yeah, I applied to cog sci just because of the PI although the computational track seems a little cool.
I think that the psychology department is like a month ahead of the cog sci department, so you should be hearing soon. Best of luck!
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@neuroinformagical Did you apply to the psychology or the cognitive science program at Johns Hopkins?
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@theremixtocognition I am also applying Cognitive Psychology. I also have noticed that there are very few people talking about it in on the forum. Why is it making you nervous?
I have been following the developmental, social, and the neuroscience threads because it seems far more relevant than clinical/counseling. This forum sometimes makes me wish that clincial/counseling was an entirely separate discipline.
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I have begun thinking about what I should be wearing to interview. I am specifying non- Clinical/Counseling because I think that dress for those interviews may be more formal though I am not sure. In the neuroscience program invites, they specified that the interview dress was "business casual." Is that also true for experimental psychology programs? I am a bit worried about the shoes given that there will be campus tours, and it may be cold. I really don't want to wear flats in the snow. I also really don't want to purchase different outfits for different climates.
Thoughts and advice are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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3 minutes ago, maya123z said:
From the results page it looks like most of the people who've received unofficial or official invites are international. I wonder if domestic applicants are reviewed later.
Maybe. I am not international, and I didn't receive an unofficial invite. I just received the official invite today.
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24 minutes ago, neuronerd95 said:
Is anyone receiving official invites from MIT that didn't receive unofficial emails a few weeks back? Thanks!
I did. The official interview invite came by email from the graduate program assistant.
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@Yiyu Liu I am not applying developmental but have been following the thread because it is more relevant to me than social or clinical. Even though I don't know you or your whole application, I have confidence that you are going to get in somewhere because you have already received an interview! Getting an interview is a great sign. There is a good chance that you will be accepted to a program if you have been invited for an in-person interview.
Also, the neuroscience programs seem to be in a race to send out interview invites first, while the psych ones are going to trickle in more slowly, so keep your head up. You got this!
Also, did you get the email from MIT? I think it was sent to everyone. Don't count yourself out for anything until it is official.
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Question: I have been invited to an interview at UC Berkeley (neuroscience, not psych). I live on the east coast and flying to the west coast is a bit rough. Stanford Psych has not released their interview invites yet, and likely won't until mid-January. Stanford Psych's interview date is right after Berkeley. Berkeley wants me to book the flight before the new year, but I want to wait until I know whether I will be invited to Stanford. Should I ask Berkeley if I can wait until a few weeks later to book the flight? Should I call Stanford and say "I will be in the area... "? Thoughts?
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26 minutes ago, DevelopingThoughts said:
UCSD: “Don’t worry, the other UCs are much faster than us (I referenced how other UCs are sending invites already)”
I had a Skype call with a UCSD faculty earlier today, and she told me that the faculty are able to make recommendations to the admissions committee, but the admissions committee makes the ultimate decision. They will not meet to make the decision of who to invite for interviews until January. Then the interview weekend is the last weekend in January.
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Just curios as others have said that their last updated date is pretty recent. Mine shows as 11/16. Does this mean I did something wrong in my app to be made it discarded so early? Not really a big deal. Just curious if anyone has any ideas.