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What's up with your housing sich? Feel free to PM me, I think we are both applying social!

Yeah me either. I just submitted a list of publications with the app. Its so weird they wanted MLA format.

Ditto and ditto.

I have one more to turn in tomorrow, and one with a january due date I'll turn in in a few weeks. Now I just want to hear from schools (hopefully)!

I've applied to half Social half I/O programs, but I wanted to go ahead and give this thread a little bump. GRE: V: 162, Q: 158, W: 4.0 Research experience: 6 months volunteer in a federal human factors/personnel psychology lab, followed by 2 years of paid full-time experience. Since government work is much different than academics, I don't have has many pubs, but I have a lot of applied experience to speak of. I do however have one firs-authored thesis-length government technical report looking at training practices for an aviation field. Three second-author posters at APA, two second-author presentations at DOT funded conferences, and one DOD conference presentaiton. I/O schools applied to: University of Oklahoma, Penn State University, Colorado State University, St. Louis University, Portland State University Best of luck to all!

Hey there, did Northwestern have you mail in all of your previously published research projects? The information online was convoluted. When I spoke to psych department secretary she said that did not sound correct at all, but the website still has it there?

Not necessarily. Sometimes the Assistant Professors will be some of the only ones accepting students due to funding and needing to build their labs. Also, from speaking to colleagues in the field their advice was that while Assistant Professors might be new, they may be open to more suggestion in the projects you can take on. Not sure if that's the real case or not, but I applied to work with like 5 assistant professors out of the 12 schools I am applying to.

I did! And depending on length you can always send a portion of it. I sent in a report I had done that was basically thesis in length (like 70) pages. So I just sent the literature review with a cover page that said something along the lines of "this is an excerpt from a larger body of work, for the full report please see blank blank blank" and put a citation to follow.

I'm interested in stigma (especially towards disability/chronic illness), socioeconomic status and health disparities, attitude formation, stereotypes/prejudice, applied social.

I'm in the same boat! Well, I've submitted all but three of my applications. My S/O started to cry when he looked at the banking statement....so I had to push pause until next week LOL. I'm also applying to Northwestern (it's definitely my reach school)!

For those POIs I had already been in contact with, I let them know once my application was submitted.

Since other areas seem to have their own threads, I thought it would be nice to branch out into a Social Psychology applicant thread! Where is everyone applying? Have you submitted? Any questions, thoughts, opinions? Let's freak out together. It's totally fine...right?

Lol same.

I'm applying to 11!

Same! Do you mind sharing the initials of who you selected as a proposed mentor?

I did the same thing! But I had been working on them since like September. I was just so ready to send them in!

Well, 7 out of 10 applications are officially submitted. It would only make sense that I'm in panic mode. Would you all mind giving me feedback on my experience, I feel like any comment (positive or critique) would be super helpful. Interests: Social and I/O Psychology. Had previously been accepted to 3 I/O schools in 2017, but developed a couple autoimmune diseases that didn't get diagnosed early enough for me to find treatment before school. Took time off to find a good treatment plan. Now I'm stable, and having taken a "tester" graduate course am super motivated to go back for a PhD. Here's my stats: Undergrad GPA: 3.58. Research experience: 6 months volunteer for an federal government research lab, was then hired into a full-time paid position. Worked full-time for 1 year/8 months. First-authored a technical report using a social psych model to look at training practices in a safety-critical field (thesis size in length). Co authored on 2 APA accepted poster presentations. Co-presented at a Department of Defense conference and a agency-sponsored conference. First-author presentation to federal research division. Now I'm working full time clinical/behavioral lab for a NCI-designated cancer center looking at tobacco-cessation interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged adults. GRE: 162 V, 158Q, W 4.0 (taken once before and had made a 4.5 on this section) LOR: 2 professional government researchers with PhD in IO Psych who I have strong working and personal relationships with, 1 assistant dean of grad studies + social psych professor researcher who I have a strong relationship with (have not done research with him but have taken multiple classes and have great personal relationship). Schools/programs applied so far: Colorado State Univ - I/O Psych (reach school), Penn State Univ - IO Psych, Portland State - IO Psych, Univ of Oregon - Social/Personality, Univ of Washington - Social/Personality, Univ of Utah - Social (Health emphasis), Univ of Denver - Social I've made connections with 5 of the 7 schools so far, and held phone calls with 2 of the POIs. My main concern is that the fact I had to forfeit my scholarship and acceptance once before is going to be a big warning sign. On the other hand, I'm hoping they realized that I understand you need to be at 100% in order to fully perform in a PhD program. HELP!!

A glimpse at the competition! Who are you indicating as proposed mentor for DU? If you don't mind!

Anyone else already submit their applications, and are now wondering why they gave themselves the extra weeks of waiting????

If you can do a hook in 4-5 lines, I don't think that will hinder your SOP at all. However, If you have a lot of experience that would be a better use of your word limit that a hood, I would think that would serve a better purpose.

So, I'm not clinical but I'd applied and was accepting to University of Houston's IO psych program in the past. What the professor I spoke to said to me was that the first thing they do is look at GRE scores and anybody who scores less than around 69-70% on the quant section they take out. Then they review the leftover applications, and if necessary will dip back into the take out pile. Again, not clinical, but hope it helps.

Honestly, I did the same thing but only submitted mine maybe a week ago. Then I realized a typo! I contacted all the grad admissions offices and all of them let me replace it but one. SO, if you feel that strongly about it I don't think it would hurt to contact them to ask.