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  1. Just had my first interview. I think it went well. Things I didn't expect: -How little time was interviewing. 2 1-on-1 interviews (30 minutes each) and the rest was talking to grad students, dinner social, round table discussions, a presentation, and campus tours. -The awkwardness of talking to the clinical director and other administrative staff. It was really hard to come up with questions for them (and this was after a presentation about the program that already answered any question I had). -How much I was grilled in one of my interviews. The prof was actually asking me about specific details from my POI's journal articles. -How casual and comfortable the interview with my POI was! -How honest and upfront the grad students were with me about funding, stipend, and my POI's positives and negatives. -How interesting it was to talk to the other applicants. Also, how much time I spent around/socializing with the other applicants. Suggestions: -Bring blister band aids, even if you think you won't need them. -Bring floss (you'll be eating and you don't want things stuck in your teeth after breakfast/lunch). -Plan out your bathroom visits. I'm serious. Look at your schedule and decide when would be good times to go. -If you have a break, plan to maybe call a loved one during that time. It will be a relief to talk to someone without having to worry about your image and the loved one can give you positive affirmation and words of support. So after your call, you can head back to the interview refreshed and in a better mood. -Have a prepared list of questions to ask your POI, written down, that you can pull out and take notes on as your POI responds. -Even if you've read them before, go over your POI's recent journal articles on your flight there so everything is fresh in your mind. -Bring Tylenol pm, so if you're too nervous to sleep before interview day, you can knock yourself out. -Have some prepared statements about hobbies. They shouldn't be rehearsed, but have a bullet list in your mind, because you will be surprised how often they become a talking point.
  2. School: University of North Dakota Program Type: Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Date of invite: January 30, 2020 Type of invite: Email Interview date(s): February 21st and 22nd 2020
  3. "Don't reinvent the wheel" was some of the best advice I got from my advisor when I started my independent research project. Basically, look at the literature. What's already been done? What sort of research methods (ie. theoretical frameworks, questionnaires, study design, etc.) have already been done with this topic/research area? Look at that and then determine what you can do to push the research further. You can use the same theory and framework, but take the research in a different direction.
  4. I know a prof who did admissions for a clinical psych PhD program for 15 years. He said that those numbers are inflated by students who aren't actually qualified in one way or another but submit applications anyway. He says the true number of actually qualified applicants is around 50. Which is still a big number and once you get down to it, those are the cream of the crop. So still impressive if you get an interview, or understandable if you don't. But the numbers aren't that big (in case anyone was getting intimidated).
  5. I can't give you any reasons, as I wasn't there obviously. It could be a matter of preference on the profs part (ie. something about your personality didn't fit his) or maybe he had other prelim phone interviews that went so well that you ended up cut just based on number of other qualified applicants. Maybe you got the prof on a bad day. Maybe it really was your answers to those questions. Who knows. The only thing I can offer you is some empathy. I also had a prelim phone interview that I thought went really well, only to not be offered an in-person interview. I did exactly what you're doing now - went over everything I said and asked myself, "was my response to this question what tanked me?". It's such a stressful process and we have so much riding on it. It becomes very easy to blame ourselves, I think because it gives us some modicum of control. Easier to tell yourself you did something wrong (and can improve), then to admit your future is a roll of the dice. I'm sorry if that's not very helpful. There really isn't much closure in the grad school process.
  6. Does anyone know what's going on with University of North Dakota? Neither their invite date or interview date are on the CUDCP Admission Timeline calendar. And I've only seen a single person post about getting an invite (it was for the counseling psych program - I'm clinical psych). Have their invites gone out and no one is talking about it? What's up?
  7. School: USUHS Program Type: Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Date of invite: January 22, 2020 Type of invite: Email Interview date(s): February 24th and 25th Edited to add that I applied military track.
  8. Cross-posting from sdn School: University of MississippiProgram Type: Clinical Psychology Ph.D.Date of Invite: December 11, 2019Type of Invite: Phone call + emailInterview Date: February 7th and 8th, 2020 (in-person) School: Eastern Tennessee State UniversityProgram Type: Clinical Psychology Ph.D.Date of invite: January 8, 2020Type of invite: Phone callInterview date(s): February 14th or February 17th School: Virginia ConsortiumProgram Type: Clinical Psychology Ph.D.Date of invite: January 10, 2020Type of invite: EmailInterview date(s): January 31st Feel free to PM for POI
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