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In case it's useful for any others in limbo, I heard back last week; coordinator mentioned most invites had been sent that week (Jan 9-13). They mentioned I'd get a status update this week (Jan 16-20) - thus far no update.

Do you know what day UC Davis is interviewing?

Not sure who this may pertain to but I reached out to the UC Davis psych grad coordinator, to see if the strike affected admissions/interview timelines. For a variety of reasons I suspect some interview invites haven't been sent, but I will give an update when/if I hear back.

Just thought I'd start a section for Quantitative Psychology applicants to possibly connect. I am applying to Psychology PhD programs in Canada/USA (specializing in quantitative psychology). I have a background in psychology/statistics, curious as to other's background and how they got interested in quantitative psychology?

Likewise. Haven't received any updates/emails

I have not. I don't know much about the department in terms of how responsive they are to emails

I think this all depends on the structure of the program (field of study, location to some extent). Could share my process if given more info One thing to look into might be whether the university or program posts their admissions data somewhere on their website.

Has anyone heard back this week? Just trying to gauge whether they ahhered to their posted timeline, suspect they haven't.

Any word? Seems late in the day for an email

Anybody receive invites today?

This is something I often think about as a prospective graduate student in psychology. My impression is that the PhD-institution can sometimes matter when applying for certain tenure-track positions at extremely reputable or prestigious universities (i.e. some private Ivys). I think other universities care less about this (maybe the "prestigious" universities have some incentive to affirm the primacy or relevance of a school's reputation...). I suppose an especially low-ranked school might hurt you a bit, but as long as a university isn't notorious for being awful I think rank or prestige is less important. Granting this, I generally think the quality/volume of work as a graduate student would probably would be more of a determining factor in getting those tenure-track positions at most schools - quality researchers in a field tend to recognize other quality researchers in that field (key word "tend"). I also think the role of your PhD institution diminishes over time in the sense that, assuming you sought out great training in your area as a student/were successful in your graduate research, your status or success as a researcher is in the quality/volume of your work (as well as ability to obtain grants) and not where you trained. I would even argue who you trained with is probably more important than where - I suppose some might then posit that prestigious universities are "better" at recruiting phenomenal PhD researchers or mentors. I'm not entirely convinced of that but I am open to hearing evidence of this. Anecdotally, most of the hyper-productive/successful researchers I know did not go to schools known for their prestige (i.e. Harvard, University of Toronto, etc.). I should maybe specify in that by "successful" I mean tenure-tracked, publishing high-quality/favourably-reviewed work, obtaining grants, etc. I would of course grant that metrics can be skewed or slightly misleading in some contexts (i.e. some TT faculty may publish fewer but more meaningful or field-defining articles, others may be co-authors on many many publications; comparing their respective 'worth' can be tricky depending on your priors regarding what matters, what field they are in, etc.) I do know there's some data on prestige and outcomes like publications/grant funding but I don't know it very well unfortunately - wouldn't want to mischaracterize it, it may speak to what I am speaking to. Finally, I think what I speak to probably extends to most areas of psychology. One salient exception might be quantitative psychology, my area of interest - I think universities/companies need quant people so badly they probably prioritize aptitude/productivity even more than the prestige of the PhD institution. Granted, this is just my superficial impression, I am not a faculty member.

I'm applying for Quantitative Psychology. I had prelim meetings/interviews with a prof or two but no formal invitations yet. I believe they'll be sent out on December 22nd or 23rd, for an interview in January

Officially rejected from UTSC this morning. Received email with attached letter

Not yet!

Yeah I saw that. Just curious if anyone has accepted as that could help me infer how many spots may remain undecided