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I don't think my HPA-axis will recover from this process for at least 6 months...

I'm going crazy refreshing my email as well as all of the forums and results pages on here..Have yet to hear from a single school officially. Anyone else in the same boat? Making me quite nervous for this round ? 

Hi everyone! I just wanted to offer some encouragement during this super stressful, ridiculous process.
This is my third time applying for programs. The first time, fresh out of undergrad but feeling lucky, I applied to 5 PhD programs. Got waitlisted at one (which I'm confident was an accident) and was rejected from all the others. On a whim and literally while in my Social Psych class, I applied to a Clinical Psych Masters program and got in with a full assistantship! I figured I'd get more experience and try again.
Second time, during my Masters, I was feeling super confident and prepared and awesome with all this experience I'd gotten, so I applied to 11 places to cast a wide net and waited for the invites to come flooding in. Spoiler alert: they didn't. I got one interview and was promptly rejected. Oof.
This time, I'm a research coordinator at Cincinnati Children's Hospital with even more experience, and basically have to get in this time if I don't want to retake the GRE again (I DO NOT). I applied to 10 schools and, as of right now, have 4 interviews, 3 of which are at my top 3 choices. I'm still waiting to hear back from one more school, so at this point I'm feelin' straight up okay.
All of this isn't to say that I'm some expert or anything because I obviously don't have any offers yet and for all I know I could be in for round 4 ? but I just want to say this:  let's be honest, your timeline may not be what you imagined it to be. Mine definitely wasn't; I turned 26 yesterday and I thought I'd be almost done with my PhD by now. But that doesn't mean that what we want won't happen for us. It just may mean that the path to get there takes a few unexpected turns. Let's keep our heads up, maybe have an extra glass of wine, and try to be as kind and encouraging to ourselves as we are to each other. ☺️
 
Edit: This came out VERY cheesy, my b. Basically: even if it doesn't happen this time, that doesn't mean it won't next time. We're all smart, qualified, freaking cool people.

I applied to VCU and haven’t heard anything yet ? I saw in the clinical thread that a few people have received interview invites, but nothing for social so far. 

School: University of Oregon
Type: PhD
Date of invite: 1/3
Type of invite: Email from POI
Interview date(s):  1/31-2/2
Feel free to DM for POI

I just had my first "unofficial rejection" (interview notification deadline passed and I didn't hear anything from them). Kinda bummed but oh well. I'm stressing more about the fact that I haven't heard anything from a school where the POI's research interests match with mine *extremely well*. A few people here have already heard back from that school, but I haven't heard anyone say they heard from my POI yet.

If 4-5 programs that you apply to have the same interview date, are you supposed to immediately accept the first invite and then request alternate dates if you get invites at the other places? Or is it safe to inquire at the place that you were first invited about alternate dates/Skype interviews?
I'm just not sure what the protocol is regarding all of this interview overlap, and while I know I won't be getting interviews to all of them, I just don't know how to navigate it when all of the dates have been posted. 

Most programs will give you a deadline for when you have to accept the interview so of course thank them for the invite and express your excitement but they KNOW people applied multiple places so you don’t need to agree right away. You can wait until closer to the deadline and then if you get other invites, go in person for the one you’re most interested in. This happened to me last year and the program I asked to skype interview for never even followed up with me (after I followed up multiple times) but now I’m a student where I did interview! It’s really important to go in person to your top choice, not just who invited you first. 
 
editing to add you should never schedule then cancel an interview but if you can wait to accept, that’s respectful as long as you give you decision by the deadline. 

Messaged you.

I also got an interview from Buffalo. I'll send you mine as well.

Would you mind messaging me your POI too?:) I also applied to Buffalo and didn't hear anything. Curious about developments! Thanks:)

Pmed you

WUSTL and UMass!!!