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I can so relate to this! Only 7 more days for any grad program to give me the best Christmas present ever - starting to give up on that one though. I know it’s still early to lose all hope since social depts just started reviewing apps but I’m second guessing everything in my app like what if X wasn’t good enough?? I hate this waiting game!!

YES. But it hasn’t stopped me from obsessively checking my email in hopes I get a formal invite for Christmas ?

Ahh, I'm stressing because I didn't get the email and you're stressing because you did. The joys of application season. Hopefully that's not the case for you! ? Also just very strange as I checked both the results page for UNL last year and their program website and it says the interview invites are sent out early- to mid-January. So it would be super early if they were able to do it now. 

I was wondering what are the poi initials for those who got interviews at the University of Nevada, Reno?

I'm pretty sure this is the first time in my life I've ever looked forward to a Monday. At least once it's a weekday there's a chance I'll hear back from some schools. Hope y'all are hanging in there! ? 

Seconding what everyone has expressed already, the waiting game truly is worse than pre-submission. I really hate refreshing my inbox every 10 minutes and feeling powerless.
My main thing (after finishing my my last exam of undergrad yesterday, yay!) since submission has been more necessary than crazy/funny: packing up my whole place in preparation for a move tomorrow! I actually have noticed that I had less opportunity to check my phone obsessively and it took my mind off things. During the process, my mom and my boyfriend's mom have both come to help us pack everything and met for the first time (we've been dating for three years), which was a little stressful! They hit it off really well though. ? 

Seconding what everyone has expressed already, the waiting game truly is worse than pre-submission. I really hate refreshing my inbox every 10 minutes and feeling powerless.
My main thing (after finishing my my last exam of undergrad yesterday, yay!) since submission has been more necessary than crazy/funny: packing up my whole place in preparation for a move tomorrow! I actually have noticed that I had less opportunity to check my phone obsessively and it took my mind off things. During the process, my mom and my boyfriend's mom have both come to help us pack everything and met for the first time (we've been dating for three years), which was a little stressful! They hit it off really well though. ? 

Hopefully some invite sending happens on friday. But i think more likely next friday than this friday hahaha

I wouldn't worry! I'm currently finishing up my undergrad at a Canadian university that I'm applying back to for the doctoral program, and when talking with a supervisor she said that they don't even look at applications here until the new year. I think some universities in the states move really fast!

Do y'all have advice for additional questions to ask in an initial video interview besides the standard ones about mentorship style, future directions of research, and current projects? 

Congratulations! I have interviewed with the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa for their Clinical Psych PhD with a Psych-Law. In my case, during the initial phone interview I was asked to further elaborate on my research interests (when doing this it is important to show your ability to form original thought and come up with your own ideas, i.e., I am interested in continuing research related to X because there are a number of questions I still have. For example does X blah blah blah? And, is what we know about X in population Y generalizable to population Z?" or something like this, you get the idea... just demonstrate that you are able to form your own hypotheses relevant to the research the PI does - this will help show that you truly have an interest in the research being done by the lab and want to contribute in a meaningful way.)
I was also asked questions about where I see myself in the future (academia, practice etc.), I was provided with more in depth information about the types of projects the PI/the lab are doing/tend to do, and given the opportunity to ask questions. We also talked very briefly about what type of mentorship style I am hoping for and what I like to do for fun. The phone interview was only about 15-20 minutes long and it was with a student that was on internship at the time and wouldn't be there on interview day. She was very sweet and helpful and she even told me that one of the main things the PI likes the student to focus on while conducting the initial phone interview is ensuring the applicant truly understands the research going on in the lab. Alabama is a fantastic program with excellent students and faculty, and the program provides great opportunities so congratulations on your interview invite and I wish you the best of luck. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions or want to hear more about my experience interviewing there. Congratulations again!

Email invites on the weekend... OK I’M JEALOUS ?

School: University of Alabama
Type: PhD
Date of invite: Dec. 8., 2018
Type of invite: Email from current graduate student of PI inviting me to phone interview with them 
Interview date(s): Sometime this week
Can’t believe I have something to add here so early! Equal parts excited/terrified. 

I just baked four dozen! They're for my undergraduate PI... gotta say thank you for the reference letter writing somehow ?

Hey @ResilientDreams, I totally know how you feel as I'm applying directly from undergrad, for clinical psychology doctorate programs, as well. I've seen your posts over on the Clinical Psychology Fall 2019 applications thread! I think the only difference between us is that I completed my Honours thesis last year and am just about to finish up a last "half" year to finish up outstanding course credits. It's sometimes pretty scary being on these forums as everyone seems way more qualified than I do. Hopefully it works out for us!! I'd love to chat more about the process, I'm pretty sure everyone around me tired of hearing about the clinical psych application process about two months ago, haha. 

Self-monitoring is a good idea, maybe I'll put a time limit or check limit on myself. I've also been going for walks without my phone or trying to read physical/books magazines to avoid being tied to my email and feeling my heart rate jump every time I get a notification! Good luck with finishing off the semester  

I feel this - I debated for a long time whether I even wanted to start an account on here, it felt like a slippery slope! I try to "monitor" myself and if I feel like I am getting anxious, I completely remove myself off the forums for a bit by going for a run or reading a book with my phone far out of reach, etc. However, I am finishing up my last undergrad semester right now so I also feel like that's a good distraction - when I'm done next week, the temptation to lurk on here will be even stronger!