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I found a funny youtube series when I was looking for help called The Lab. There's only 6 episodes and it was never finished, but oh man is it funny. It's not psych but still totally relatable. Watch this to help destress after your apps are submitted!

Oh my god thats so real. All my apps are submitted and my last letter was uploaded yesterday. It's funny- we can sit back and relax now, so it should be less stressful since apps are done. But, now I'm just more anxious than before (although excited at the same time)

Haha! I already started. UCSB sends out their first wave of interview invites in December! So any day or week now. The anxiety man

To contribute to the support train, we've got this guys! We've cried many tears, grown many grey hairs from the stress, and have written and rewritten so many versions of our personal statements and statements of purpose. To those who have had to submit more than one essay in your application(s), kudos to you! We've grown so much from this experience and have prepared the best we could! Now we can sit back and wait it out! Stressful, yes, but in a different way ?. Fingers crossed for interview invites ? If any of you are interested, I would love to form a group where we can practice out some mock interviews!

I would only submit them if you seriously think they will help your chances of admission. If they're average, they probably wont help you and will just cost you money

Thanks for starting this thread! I haven't heard anything from my schools just yet, but I assume they will definitely be conducting interviews online. However, in person interviews are so much more than just the interviews itself - we get to tour the campus, attend some info sessions, meet with faculty, meet with doctoral students, eat free food, and more. The interviews will probably be really easy to transition to an online format. I'm curious to see what they will do for the rest of the regularly scheduled things if not completely just getting rid of them completely for this cycle.

I'm going to TC right now for my masters in clinical psych! I can't speak for the organizational psych program, but I can definitely say that your GPA and GRE scores are great! If you have any questions about TC and the psych program in general, feel free to send me a message

Thanks for this post! I've definitely been wondering how interviews will be going for this application cycle. I've applied before for Fall 2019 admission and was invited for two interviews (rejected from one, waitlisted on the other) and was unfortunately not given an offer. However, when I was attending those interviews, there was so much more than just the interviews that were important - such as attending info sessions, meeting departmental faculty and doctoral students, going on tours of the campus, lunches, and so much more. It's easy to see them just conducting the actual interviews online over Zoom, but how are they going to conduct the other aspects of the visit online? I'm curious to see what will happen, haha! I haven't heard anything from my schools this cycle yet.

Wow, thanks - that's super cool! Also, good luck on your PsyD applications! If you don't mind me asking, what was your experience like going to UCSB? Also, is the Gevirtz Grad School of Education really as wonderful as it seems (such as its support of diverse students and passion for social justice, for example) or is it more on paper only? ?

December 1st! We should be hearing about first round interviews pretty soon ? fingers crossed! ?

Hi everyone! Try not to panic too much regarding the influx of applications this year. More applications doesn't necessary mean more competitive applications. A lot goes into preparing doctoral applications (securing great letters of rec, taking time to prepare your personal statements and cater them to each program, and finding professors with the greatest fit for you)! I know that I spent a huge amount of time researching so many programs and have attended many sessions advising on how to best apply to doctoral programs. I assume that many of you have done the same. People that have chosen to apply this year only because of the waived GREs for example may not have been as serious in the past, so they may not have prepared as much as we have or known what to do or what not to do when writing personal statements. We've got this! Just breathe and submit the best applications that you can

Hi everyone! I just submitted my last application and I am so relieved now. Now it's time to wait and feel all that anxiety and excitement, haha!

I don't think this will ruin your app - especially since this is listed on the very bottom. There are many parts to an application, and frankly, considering that both you and your recommender missed it when proofreading, the person looking at your CV might not notice either. If there's still a substantial amount of time before your applications are due (like 2+ weeks), you can reach out to admissions/your department and request them to update the CV on your application with a new one if you already applied and can no longer edit your application. Don't fret - you'll be okay.

Hey everyone! I'm applying this cycle too and am relieved that all but one of my schools waived the GRE requirement! I'm applying to both counseling and clinical programs because my interests overlap in both fields. I plan to work with the transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive community to study gender euphoria, resilience, intersectionality, and the impacts of gender based discrimination on mental health. Hopefully my work will one day help impact social policy (especially since I also plan to work with advocacy groups). ? nice to meet you all!

I'm starting this thread so that we can get to know each other and (hopefully) see each other on interview day! The application deadline was due today and I am so relieved that my letters of recommendation were able to be submitted on time. Now, all we have to do is wait it out! I read online that we should be hearing about interviews in December or January, so best of luck to all of us!

I'd say that it wont be used against you if you don't send it in - they'll probably just weigh another aspect of your application more to make up for it (like GPA/letters of recommendation/personal statement). If you have great gre scores, go ahead and send them in if you can financially afford to do so and really think it will boost your application and help your chances. If you don't send it in, and all other parts of your application are great, then you shouldn't worry about it hurting your chances of admission.

Hello everyone! I'm looking into doctoral programs and found PAU online. I'm interested in their clinical psychology phd program with a LGBTQ focus of interest, however, I cant find any information about their funding online. Do they provide you a stipend? Or is this a school someone should avoid (finance wise). Thanks!

Hello everyone! I'm getting ready to apply for doctoral programs in counseling and clinical psychology (my interests overlap in both fields and is explained in my personal statement) and I'm starting to think about who to ask for my letters of recommendation! I've been a research assistant for about 4 years now and can think of four professors to ask who will be able to provide strong letters of recommendation. However, most applications state to list three recommenders. Would it help to list a fourth? Or should I only submit three? If you would only recommend three, could you help me eliminate someone? I have listed the people I'm thinking about below: The people I'm thinking of asking are: 1) The professor I was a Lab Coordinator for in Undergrad. He was also my supervisor for my honors thesis. Although I am not published yet, I will be listed as an author on future publications coming from a doctoral student's dissertation. 2) The professor who is currently mentoring my masters thesis. I know him on a really good level and have taken classes with him as well and I am confident he will be able to write a strong letter. 3) A professor who I am a research assistant in a lab with currently. He is famous in his field and offered to write me a letter already 4) The director of the McNair scholars program from my undergraduate institution. I know her on a really good level as well (she mentored my summer research internship project, allowed me to travel to research conferences, and is honestly just a saint) Thank you so much everyone! I wish you all the best of luck on your upcoming applications, or if you're already in a program, success in your classes and projects!

Hi everyone!During the 2018 application cycle for Fall 2019 admission, I applied to clinical psychology PhD programs and was interviewed by two schools. After being rejected from both schools, I decided to pursue my masters and decided to get more research experience in my field of interest. I really want to reapply to one of these programs in the upcoming cycle because the program and professor strongly match my research interests. Frankly, I also feel a lot more prepared for a doctoral program now that I was then. However, I'm not exactly sure how to approach this? Do you guys have any advice?I think it might be a good idea to reach out and email the professor again to 1) reintroduce myself and show that I have taken steps to better prepare myself this time around and to 2) see if they're taking applicants for the upcoming cycle (especially due to the covid pandemic). But at the same time, I don't know how this will be perceived, considering I was rejected previously.Thanks a bunch!

Hello everyone! I'm planning to apply to doctoral programs in counseling psychology in the fall and am currently looking into some programs. I noticed on UCSB's website that they have a writing sample requirement. But, when I looked more into it, all they say regarding this requirement is: The writing sample is based on your research experience; either research on the job, a research project, or a class paper. There is no length limit, but should be substantial enough to show yourself to be competitive. Faculty are looking for strong writing skills and place more emphasis on the context of the paper than the content. Applicants are not exempt from submitting a writing sample if they do not have one that is related to research in some way. All applicants must submit a sample. Your application will not be reviewed without one. Would anyone be able to tell me what exactly this means? This description itself is vague and I doubt they want me to submit an autobiography of my research and lab experience. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi guys! Thanks for your responses! I'm still torn, however, for a variety of reasons. First, I think that my research interests align more with Columbia's program since there is a professor on the campus that studies exactly what I want to study in my future doctoral studies. I know what I want to study already, but didn't feel ready entering a PhD program just yet in my college career. I'm hoping that if I work with him during my masters program, that it would help my chances of getting accepted to work with him in the future as a doc student since he will know me and my work ethic more on a personal basis, if that makes any sense. I'm not saying that my research interests don't match with the mentor's I would be working with at the University that I already accepted: it's just that it matches more at Columbia. Also, Columbia is a lot closer to my family. It would be nice to just take a train ride to see my family every once in a while without having to pay a fortune to travel. What would be the repercussions of deciding to not go to the school I already accepted an offer from to attend Columbia instead? At the time, I picked a school that was the best option for me research-interests wise, and was genuinely happy with my decision. This offer from Columbia definitely threw a curveball at me, since I genuinely didn't think that I would get accepted to the program. It was a reach school for me and my top choice. I know it's pretty late in the game right now. If I decided to leave this program, I'd feel immense guilt for taking a spot away from someone who wanted it. If I had both of these offers at the same time, I genuinely would have picked Columbia. However, I'm also concerned about jeopardizing my academic/professional reputation and potentially getting blacklisted. Like, would this impact my chances at getting into future doctoral programs? Thanks!

Hello everyone! I think that I am in a very strange situation? I applied to psychology masters programs and got accepted to a couple of them, but rejected from most. I picked a pretty good school that I would be really happy attending on the deadline, not expecting to hear back from any other schools after this deadline. However, I literally just got an email YESTERDAY from another school I thought I was rejected from because I haven't heard anything from them. I got accepted to Columbia University! I don't know what to do, because I would have picked to attend Columbia if I had received that offer EARLIER. Why would they send me this acceptance so late? I don't want to burn any academic bridges, because my goal is to earn a PhD in Clinical Psychology and work towards getting a tenure-tracked position. However, the idea of rejecting this offer from an ivy-league school makes me sick to my stomach. Do you have any advice? Thanks!