rubberduck
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My mentor left my institution, three months after I spent a $1000 moving my stuff across the country. I got reassigned a new mentor (who was a faculty member in a different program, but I could remain a student in my current program). She is the most lovely person I have ever met. I couldn't be happier that she's my new mentor. But the process showed me how little my program in general cared about its students. The first suggestion I received from the director of the clinical program was to leave institutions. Faculty members were sorry for me but none of them did anything to actually help. I'm sorry that this happened to you and I am interested to know if you were able to recover from your issue without leaving your current institution.
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Hi! Anyone else going to Ohio State for Fall 2020? I'll be joining the psychology program ?
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School: The Ohio State University
Type of Program: Clinical
Acceptance Date: 1/15/2020
- PianoPsych and -Resilience-
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Does anyone have advice on what to wear for "business casual"? UMass Amherst's clinical weekend has one day with a business casual dress code and one day with a professional dress code. I'm wondering (for women applicants) if a nice sweater is business casual-y enough or if I should wear a colored blazer and dark jeans.
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1 hour ago, clinicalpsychologist!!! said:
Do you guys think after a phone interview, PIs will always follow up? I had about a 30 minute call with a PI a little over a week ago, and I haven't heard anything since. Wait it out, or is this a rejection?
The longest time I waited for a follow-up after a phone interview was ~25 days (it was over the holiday break so I knew it would be a while), it was really tempting to email them back but I ended up waiting it out -- I would only reach out if you had to (e.g. to resolve interview date conflicts).
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4 hours ago, springxsummer said:
Does anyone have any tips for skype interviews?
My general Skype advice:
- Make sure that you give them your Skype username or the email that you used to make your Skype account before the interview takes place (esp if you're like me and you have multiple Skype accounts), and make sure that they can find your account easily on Skype if they search by your username/email
- Give the interviewer your cell phone number as a backup
- If you wear glasses, turn your screen brightness as low as you're comfortable with; this will reduce glare in your glasses
- Try to have a neutral/non-reflective background, wear something nice including pants
- Look into the camera (not at the screen) while speaking
- Wear headphones to reduce background noise
In my experience, you'll be asked questions similarly to a real interview, so most interview advice should be applicable to Skype interviews too!
Edit: Also my general interview tips/experience:
- You will be expected to ask more questions than answer them; make sure to have many questions on a variety of topics (teaching requirements, clinical work, lab workflows, coursework, general living in the area, etc.)
- If additional faculty interview you that you didn't apply to, they probably won't ask you a lot of detailed questions; they're there to answer your non-PI-specific questions that only a faculty member can answer
- Don't get drunk at the pre-interview social events
- I brought ~10 copies of my CV and this was definitely overkill (you should bring a few though)
- springxsummer and PsyHike
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1 hour ago, Dr.MOM said:
Can you explain what you mean by this or how you know this?
I think they mean that, as long as you submit your application before the deadline (usually Dec 1), timing doesn't impact your application. An application submitted on September 30th has the same impact as one submitted on November 30th; things may get dicey if materials are submitted after the deadline though.
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3 hours ago, Dr.MOM said:
So far - no dice. For people who got interviews in any of these programs - what did your stats look like? Feeling at a loss
I got an interview at Temple (assumed rejection from Fordham though, sadly) and I think it came down to fit with the PI; my undergrad and postbacc experience matched up well with the PI's research interests. I also emphasized statistics/data science in my applications: minored in stats in undergrad, worked a lot with data as postbacc, in my SOPs I mentioned specific techniques that PIs used (dyadic data analysis, Bayesian stuff, behaviorally-coded data, etc.); I think this helped PIs overlook my remarkably average GRE quant score.
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20 hours ago, r7a1e1 said:
Hi! Wondering about clinical interview invites for
University of Hawaii
University of New Mexico
University of Las Vegas
Duquesne University
Miami University (Ohio)
Auburn University (I think Auburn went out already)
Miami's Ohio interview days are either Feb 3 or Feb 7; I think most have gone out by now.
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2 minutes ago, Stressed&CoffeeObsessed said:
Would the poster from Georgia State (if they’re on here) mind DMing me the name of their POI and if the phone call they got to inform them of an interview came from the POI or the department? Thanks and congrats!
Me too! (Also when GSU’s interview weekend will be) Thanks!
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25 minutes ago, diaphanous said:
Hi, minor question here. I have an interview on Jan 23-24 and still haven't received information about housing, even though the initial invite (extended in December) said the faculty that invited me would make those arrangements. Is it too soon to contact the admissions office and ask about this? In the case that someone forgot to make my arrangements, I don't want to wait too much longer and make them scramble to make super last minute accommodations. Should I contact them now, or maybe wait until Wednesday so it's just a week until my visit?
Thanks!
For one school I interviewed at, they sent me info on who I would be staying with on Tuesday when they knew I was flying in on Thursday. I would try to wait if you can.
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Has anyone heard from Georgia State for clinical interviews?
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If you don’t want to wear a pant suit, what about a dress with a blazer?
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To the poster on the Results page, unfortunately yes, the invite email for South Florida's clinical program seemed to be a mass email (or individual emails sent en masse); it came from the admissions coordinator.
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FYI: Invites for Indiana Bloomington's clinical science program should be all out by the end of next week; their interview weekend will take place Feb 21st.
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Congrats to the poster who got a Skype interview at South Florida! Would you mind messaging me your POI? Thanks!
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The University of Rhode Island doesn't require the general GRE.
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School: Temple University
Type: Clinical Psychology PhD
Date of Invite: 12/22/19
Type of Invite: Email from chair
Interview date(s): 01/13/20
I received the email at 8:30AM on a Sunday ... happy holidays y'all!
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To the Temple University poster, would you mind DMing me your POI and letting me know if the email was sent by the POI or the director/admin? Thanks!
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5 minutes ago, Modulus said:
School: University of Missouri
Type: Clinical Psychology PhD
Date of invite: 12/19/19
Type of Invite: Email from PI setting up skype interview
Interview date(s): TBD
Is that Columbia or Kansas City? Thanks!
Three years post-application
in Psychology Forum
Posted · Edited by rubberduck
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It has been three years since I religiously used this website when I applied to clinical psychology programs and I thought I would revisit it. Here are some lessons I learned after three years into a clinical psychology PhD: