Novina

Hello! I'm a recent psychology graduate (Hon. B.A. Psych, minors in computer science and philosophy; 3.91 GPA, 90%+ percentile GRE scores; stats for reference) who applied to a handful of PhD programs this past year without luck. Other than a lack of research experience and publications, I have a pretty good grasp of psychology and what I want to research, so now I'm looking for ways to gain more research experience during my gap year. The only problem is that, by the time I realized that interview invites were all out and that I was not invited, COVID-19 had already reached its nasty little hands into my country and RA positions/internships were being pulled left and right. The only internship I landed got pulled. Potential MA funding got pulled. It's been a nightmare manifest. I've been trying to work on building my coding expertise (I'm fluent in Python and R) and running simple computational research projects, as well as building soft but useful skills like website design, but I still feel like I'm not *really* doing anything. My country has botched the COVID-19 response so the job market is shot too, and I'm terrified of being proverbially stuck on the couch for a year until next application season. For those of you in the same boat, or who came out of your B.A. suddenly deprived of a game plan, is there anything you found helpful? Any resources that you could recommend to me, and other individuals in this position?

Good luck to them!!!! ...but also, I'm thankful to hear it's still general radio silence from the social/personality department haha.

do you know what program they applied for (e.g. clin, social, etc.)?

Has anyone heard back from Illinois or Penn State yet? I feel like people are getting invites/rejections all over the place but I haven't heard a peep from any of the schools I applied to.