[Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD]

3 hours ago, SocialPsych2018 said:

My sense is that NYU sent out all of their invites (at least for cognition & perception).

I applied to the social psych track at NYU and I'm freaking out right now, it was one of my safest bets (my LORs carried a lot of weight there). I hope they're still sending invites for the social program. If anyone got an interview for the NYU social program I'll appreciate if you could PMme POI initials.

[Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD]

17 hours ago, SocialPsych2018 said:

Just got invited for a skype informal interview @ NYU. Feeling nervous! I still need to submit 2 more applications ?

Awesome news! Kudos

I'm also applying to the Social Psych program at NYU. Out of curiosity, which POIs you are interested in?

[Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD]

15 hours ago, imemine said:

How common is it (especially in this subfield) to have skyped with POIs pre-application? I keep reading about those calls on other threads. I haven't had any, and I can't help but wonder if it'll do me in...

I didn't have the chance to do this with any of the POIs except from one (at Johns Hopkins), unfortunately after some emails I realized it wasn't a good fit so we never skyped. I did exchange several emails with most of them though.

[Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD]

8 hours ago, PianoPsych said:

Completed 6/7 apps on time, and I have a good feeling about the last one being let through even though it was late.

For anyone applying in the future- I would not recommend leaving apps till the last minute, especially if the 1st of December is on a weekend! ?

To send the apps on time, I had to pull an all-nighter throughout Friday-Saturday. Due to the lack of sleep, I was in a quasi-psychotic state while completing the last apps. Fortunately, I think I didn't make any mistakes. The most stressful thing I've done and as an international student (it's my first time applying), everything seems more obscure and complicated.