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My god waiting is hard. My nerves are absolutely fried right now. At this point outright rejections would be welcome, because then at least I'd know.

To the best of my knowledge, most programs in Canada are like this, but then you'd have to pay more in tuition if you're not Canadian. Although the guaranteed amount of funding for most is quite low, only about $20000 CAD, which isn't very much.

Apparently Dal did interviews ages ago, in December, and the first round of offers were sent out in the second week of January. It's in the thread earlier on, about page 6. Still not over that one, ha. Don't know anything about UNB.

Thank you ❤️

Thank you, this made me tear up haha. Feeling pretty emotional lately.

I love that way of thinking so much - "I'm going to age anyways. I would rather age doing something fulfilling and meaningful". I'm going to try to keep that in mind! I applied to both PhD and Master's programs - although I have an experimental psych Master's, I obviously didn't take any clinical courses and some of the universities I applied to require a Master's in clinical before doing a PhD. Ideally I would have applied to only PhD programs, but one of the POIs I would love to work with is at a university that won't admit anyone to a clinical PhD without a Master's degree in clinical (and they usually only take students who did their Master's at that university).

I love this, thanks for writing your comment. The one thing I worry about is that I already feel like I'm so behind. At 27, I expect I'm older than a lot of people on this forum because I already have a Master's degree (in experimental psych) and I will always wonder if I did the wrong thing by getting a degree I didn't want in the hopes that it would boost my chances in getting into a clinical psych program. I might have been wrong about that, it's certainly looking that way now. The thought of starting another Master's degree when I'm 28, almost 29, is super disheartening. But I can't take back any of my past decisions, it is what it is.

Thank you for the info!

I'm not convinced York has sent out invites yet, not for general clinical psych anyway. I am basing this off of last year's thread, but people started to get rejections in the application portal near the end of the 3rd week of January. My application still says "no decision yet". Or am I just clinging to false hope???? If someone hears from York in any way please PM me or post here! It's pretty much my last hope at this point

We were talking about York FYI, not Windsor!

Meaning that only individuals on the short list received emails? Was it from POIs or the school?

Congratulations, I hope your chat goes well!!

The start of another week... I am so hoping for some good news this week for all of us! If you're feeling frustrated, down on yourself, swirling in self-doubt, and constantly wondering if you're "good enough" - you're not alone.

SO MUCH THIS. One of my favourite sayings to keep in mind (not just for this process, but in general) is "Comparison is the thief of joy".

I haven't heard anything either. I spoke with my POI really early on (September) but haven't corresponded with them since applications were due. I was looking at the thread from last year and I think I remember reading that interview invites went out quite late, either the second last or last week of January.

OMG THANK YOU this gives me some hope haha

Same boat here. I just feel sick thinking about it and yet it's all I think about.

I have very similar stats, plus a Master's degree in experimental psychology, near perfect research interest matches, and I haven't gotten a single interview. I understand it's frustrating but at least you have interviews, and you only need one to say yes to get into a program.

If you're comfortable can you let met know yours? I wasn't invited and thought I had a pretty good chance but I guess not lololol.

Nope, and I can't figure out how to log back into Quest to check my application status. Every time I try it wants me to use a uwaterloo email, which I don't have. If anyone has figured this out let me know!

I used to get terrible performance anxiety, especially for presentations. Even if I was 100% confident in my presentation and my knowledge, my sympathetic nervous system would betray me. I would get hives, my heart would race, I would sweat profusely, my mouth was bone dry. I went to my doctor and they prescribed me beta blockers for this reason. And they work incredibly well for me! All of my physiological symptoms disappear. It might be worth checking with your doctor about.

I didn't apply to Calgary but have connections there (sorry to be vague, I'll PM you how I know). But they may have been talking about the Experimental programs, not the Clinical programs, although the open house date is the same for both programs. Maybe there's still hope for Dal? I really don't want to give up hope yet. I'll post if I hear anything!

Okay, what? Dal has already contacted their first choice students?! If so I'm absolutely gutted, it was by far my best shot... EDIT: Was wrong about the Calgary open house invites, so ignore me