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  1. Keyz
    @brighteyesThis, I would inquire as to whether they have a moving stipend.
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    Awesome! I look forward to it, it's such a great department overall.
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    School: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Concentration: Counseling Psychology Type: PhD Date of acceptance: 3/14/2019 Notified by: Email from POI that I've been accepted off of the waitlist!
  4. Keyz
    Congrats! Florida has a fantastic counseling program.
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    The BEST part about all of it is that the process can take up to April 15th!!!
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    Feel you so hard. I'm waitlisted and my top two counseling psych programs (and wish I would have applied to UNL's clinical program now that I know what one of the faculty's research interests are).
  7. Keyz
    In my experience, no. At one program my PI emailed back in a couple days (they were sick, so it's understandable) but for another I didn't get a response at all. I was waitlisted at both.
  8. Keyz
    Understandable, it's hard not to second guess yourself when there are so many different options and opinions. You'll do great though regardless!
  9. Keyz
    Was about to say this. If you are really worried about "formality," black is a good default and would match your slacks. But just ask yourself, is it work the extra money? If so then don't get a super expensive pair. For example, my cheap shoes were literally $30 same with my cheap pad folio, which was $12, but people literally thought they were expensive.
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    In line with interviews being bizzare, I hated the fact that multiple professors said they absolutely “loved me” and hoped that I would “attend” because I feel like it just gave me too much false hope when I ultimately was waitlisted with no other information. And then like you said you have to play nice with people WHO YOU ARE COMPETING WITH like lol great.
  11. Keyz
    Exactly. It’s hard for me to not think “what didn’t I do right? Was I not good enough? Did I say something wrong?” I try my best not to get into that thought process but it’s hard when you did everything you could and were as genuine as possible. Plus the reality is you will never know because most programs will just say “large pool of highly qualified applicants/very competitive applicants this year!” I think the best part of these forums is that there are other people going through the exact same thing and can empathize and actually understand what the process is like. Hopefully everything works out for you and @yeahsouh though, I’ll be wishing you guys as much luck as I can!
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    Same though, there were repeat applicants at some of my interviews so I’m like “well maybe they’ll go to the other one or elsewhere and I’ll get in!” So I totally understand where you’re coming from. Did you at least get acknowledgement of where you are on the waitlist or did they just leave you in the wind like me?
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    I’m not very religious but I just pray everyday that someone will inevitably go to another school and that I’ll be accepted off of the waitlist. But it’s still driving me crazy because I want it so bad and have done so much up to this point if that makes sense.
  14. Keyz
    Literally have my appointment today and get to express just how dead inside this process has made me and how I have become obsessive and anxious (even more than my diagnoses portray lol). I feel you so much right now.
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    No, you aren't crazy. When I started out this process, the interviews that I got for schools were ranked, in my mind, from which one is in the best city, most prestigious, and has a high stipend. I then discovered that that is a great way to hate your entire time at a school during your doctorate work if you don't have a good fit with the program compared to another one (one of my grad students I work with directly in my lab expressed this and later on so did other graduate students I met with at interviews). A lot of them decided to go to what would be considered a "less prestigious school" with a lower stipend (for example, the one I had ranked #1 is one of the best programs in the country and has an $18k/9mo. stipend that comes with both health and dental insurance) versus one that has a much better PI that I would absolutely love to work with that only has about a $9k/9mo. stipend with only discounted insurance. I would much rather be happier with what I am doing with my time than worry about the ranking or stipend I'd be getting because I would have to be doing this for 5-6 years of my life.
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    Lol I get so jealous of you guys that are told what position you are at on the waitlist. My schools didn't tell any of us what position we were at.
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    I literally refresh this as well as my application portals to see if I've been rejected or accepted off of the waitlist instead of paying attention to class half the time, so I totally feel you. (Also I saw you're supposed to hear back from your top choice today, I wish you the best of luck!)
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    Honestly, whether you get a degree in clinical/counseling is less important than if you become a licensed psychologist. Now, that being said, there will be differences that @sassyyetclassyhas mentioned, but that's not to say that you can't work with the clinical population in the future. Practicum sites and internships for clinical also tend to be at community mental health clinics and hospitals, as well as places like VAs, and counseling centers at other universities. Edit: I should mention that you can usually find these internship sites and whatnot on the Student Admissions, Outcomes, and Other Data PDFs of different programs (for example, UNL has their clinical psych internship sites baked into it from 2010-2018.)
  19. Keyz
    Where all did you get accepted to/waitlisted for counseling psych?
  20. Keyz
    I think that if you have a good connection with that PI and a good fit with their research interests, maybe go for it. The only thing is that obviously you don't have anything to go off of as far as grad students under them to vouch for them so that kind of can make it a hard decision.
  21. Keyz
    That’s so odd, I don’t know how I would feel about that personally lol, but I am hoping it works out for you guys!
  22. Keyz
    I feel you. It's such a stressful and emotional time, and being waitlisted is like another hurdle to get over because you never know if anyone will decline their acceptance or not. I get tempted to reach out to my POIs for information like whether anyone has accepted yet or where I am on the waitlist, but I never do because I'm always afraid that I'll ruin something.
  23. Keyz
    Congrats! What is Iowa State like? (I know you're social and I'm counseling but still am wondering what the campus and whatnot are like).
  24. Keyz
    Yes, I have this happen all the time even though I don't like to talk about it. It was even worse when in one of my interviews I was told by multiple professors that they loved me and my personality and really wanted me to be accepted.... Just to get an email saying that I won't be extended an offer and most likely won't even in the future if people decline acceptance. It's really hard to stomach rejection especially when you have an interview somewhere and feel some grasp of success just to have it all taken away from you.
  25. Keyz
    I really hope this doesn't happen to you, I'm sure it will all work out, but also congrats on the acceptance!
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