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    Interview Day Overlap

    in Psychology Forum

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    1 minute ago, SandpaperTongue said:

    Thanks for your reply! I figure this is a common occurrence, but I haven't seen any posts covering this topic.  I'll reach out to School A next week and inquire about this. Also, I'm in cognitive, but I'll be interviewing at Utah during the same weekend as you. 

    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 

    Interview Day Overlap

    in Psychology Forum

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    36 minutes ago, SandpaperTongue said:

    I recently accepted interview invites for two schools that fall on the same week. Luckily, School A is scheduled Thursday to Saturday, and School B is scheduled Sunday to Monday. These schools are located on completely opposite sides of the U.S., so I will be spending Saturday flying from School A to School B. Both schools are reimbursing me for flights. However, I’m not sure how the reimbursement process would work since I’m flying from one interview to another. Has anyone been in or will be in a similar situation where they fly from one interview to another? How did or will the reimbursement process work? I plan on speaking with the program coordinators of both schools and asking them about the best way to go about this, but I figured it may be worth a shot to post here and see if someone had ever been or will be in a similar situation. 

    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!

    Interview Attire

    in Psychology Forum

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    1 hour ago, justacigar said:

    Unfortunately I wear a closed, continuous clicker ring so I can't flip it, but I've had it for almost 10 years so I know it won't close on me!

    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 

    Interview Attire

    in Psychology Forum

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    4 hours ago, justacigar said:

    I have to assume jeans of any kinds would be a solid no-no, regardless of concentration, same with t-shirts. I would still think you'd want to wear slacks of some kind and maybe  a sweater but more likely a dress shirt. 

    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

    Chances of getting into a top program w/ a low-ranked undergraduate institution? (Social psych/OB)

    in Psychology Forum

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    11 minutes ago, andhowdoesthatmakeyoufeel said:

    To be honest, I personally don't. But I'm not an admissions committee. Research papers are pretty par for the course in undergrad and don't really count as research experience unless they're published in a journal. Honors thesis helps, but a lot of people are going to have that. It's very competitive. 

     

    The way to increase your chance of getting a job in academia is to publish once you are working towards your PhD. Publish or perish. And network. 

    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. 

    *I is stressed* venting thread for Fall 2020 Applicants

    in Psychology Forum

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    20 minutes ago, Justice4All said:

    2nd (and 3rd, 4th, 5th) time applicants- do you feel an added pressure?

     

    This is my second time applying. The first time I applied to clinical psych phd programs,  I thought I had a "good enough app" decent GRE (low quant), large amount of research experience, etc. I applied during the fall of my senior year to 3 programs but did not even receive an interview. It was possibly the worst feeling I've ever had. I had imagined myself in a program, didn't have a plan b, and felt like a failure. It was so hard watching friends get into med and law programs. Even though I knew those programs were statistically easier to get into than clinical programs, I felt so inadequate not having gotten into the program of my choice. UGH. I didn't even celebrate my graduation because I was so down. I took it really hard. My best friend is in a clinical psychology phd program which also stung, I compared myself constantly. I am also a racial minority, sometimes, there's an added stress of succeeding for my race. When I didn't get in, I felt like all the negative stereotypes of being a Black woman piled on top of me.

    This time, I'm feeling much better but I do wonder if the same thing will happen again. I did all the typical things someone does in their gap year like volunteer, research (I work for a large research company, not one lab), and up my scores. Still, I am SO STRESSED especially after knowing the bitter taste of rejection. The hardest part was believing in myself again. Rejection from dream schools can make you question yourself, your passions, and your ability to achieve your dreams. A gap year has done wonders for me, and I do not regret it necessarily. But as other posters mentioned- I miss learning and want to dive deep into my career already. It will all work out for all of us though, I'm very positive of that.

    Anyone relate?

    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. 

    Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD

    in Psychology Forum

    Posted · Edited by scared_and_a_freud

    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

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