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University of Georgia, Social Psych PhD!

This happened to me and I got accepted the next day! So I would consider it a very good sign

University of Utah: 2/6-2/8 Florida State University: 1/30-2/2 Tulane: 2/9-2/10

Has anyone heard from the University of Hawaii? They're the last school that I'm really waiting to hear back from and I'm on pins and needles!

YAYYYY is your first interview with Utah, because they were my school A and were so so kind about helping me figure out those travel arrangements

Hey this literally just happened to me! I spoke to the coordinator at school A and told them about my situation and they said that it would be fine to fly me to school B instead of a return flight home. I informed school B that I would only need them to pay for my flight home because of the other school (which worked out well since school B had limited funds for my travel). It never hurts to ask!

If you want you could always just switch it out for a retainer for the interview season, that's what I did. I had a septum piercing for three years that closed overnight so I'd be careful about just pulling out the jewelry

Yeah I couldn't imagine wearing jeans, but for everything but clinical/counseling I've heard that business casual (leaning towards business formal) is perfectly ok! A grad student told me that you should wear conference appropriate clothes

I agree with andhowdoesthatmakeyoufeel, I get that it may be frustrating to push back your life plans by a couple of years but you're already way ahead of the game. I would seriously consider doing a postbacc research position in a lab with similar interests to yours for two years and really focus on increasing those hard skills and getting your name on some posters and presentations. I applied to PhD programs right out of undergrad and the question I continuously got was "why do you think you're ready when everyone else has put in more work than you" so put in the work and you'll be fine, applying beforehand is really just going to be a waste of money and time.

School: Florida State University Type: PhD Date of invite: 1/2 Type of invite: Email from POI Interview date(s): 1/30-2/2 School: University of Utah Type: PhD Date of invite: 1/4 Type of invite: Email from POI Interview date(s): 2/6-2/8 Feel free to DM for POI

I got an in person interview with FSU! DM me for POI

Hey I had a preliminary phone interview at UGA and got invited to their interview weekend, it's January 16-18

School: Tulane Type: PhD Date of invite: 12/23 Type of invite: Email from POI Interview date(s): 2/9-2/10 DM me for POI!

I definitely feel that, I'm also a racial minority and the child of immigrants. So when I decided to become a psych major there was this implicit understanding that I would go on to be a doctor in some way. In my first round of applications I was still in undergrad and thought I wanted to do clinical psych but I wasn't really sure and I think that the people who interviewed me realized that. Since then I've narrowed in on the work that I want to do and the population that I want to do it with and I'm pretty excited at the way things are going right now. I kind of feel like I had to fail before in order to get here, so I guess all that blood, sweat and tears were worth it. But the stress is definitely there, and the pressure is on, I really don't feel like I can disappoint my people twice.

School: UGA Type: PhD Date of invite: 12/18 Type of invite: Email from POI Interview date(s): 1/16-1/19 DM me if you're interested in POI's initials

Hey I actually work in a psychology lab at UMass, if you have any questions feel free to reach out!

Congrats! That's amazing

Finished 9/10 applications, and the last one isn't due until January, so calling it a day until after Thanksgiving. Best luck to everyone else in that final stretch ?

Hey yall, looonnng time lurker on thegradcafe, first time poster. I graduated from undergrad in 2018 and have been working full time since then as a project manager at a developmental neuroscience lab! Programs of Interest: Social psych PhDs Research Interests: intergroup relations, perception and categorization, with a particular focus on multiracial/multiethnic individuals School List: University of Utah, University of Hawai'i Manoa, Lehigh, Tulane, Tufts, Howard, Rutgers, UGA, FSU Background: BS in Psychology and Criminal Justice from a pretty competitive private university Things I'm Not Worried About: Strong letters of Recommendation: one from the PI who's lab I worked in in undergrad, one from my current PI, and one from a pretty well known social psych professor who I took a class with last spring while working Lots of research experience Posters: I have presented four posters, three of which I was first author on, one of which was at a major conference Fit with PIs Things I'm Worried About: My GPA is ehh: 3.57 my GRE is also ehh: 162/158/5.0 No relevant research experience: I have one middle author publication that's been submitted for publication but it's not in the field I want to pursue, furthermore my past research experiences aren't in the field I want to pursue. I have another publication in prep but I don't think it will be even close to ready by the time these applications are due. Wishing all of yall the best as we enter this mess, any advice/reassurance would be deeply appreciated