LostSoulInPsychology
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Yeah exactly. Anecdotally, (though I won't give too many details to still have my real identity hidden), my dad is a professor at uni, and he often comments that he wishes he had a PhD that allowed him to work in industry more and not be stuck with academia only. I think I'd feel the same, having seen what being a professor is like behind the scenes and everything like it just doesn't spark my interest at all
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@HopefulPsyc2020 what is a POI school? ahaha but no worries and @Mickey26 thank you for posting!
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I attached an image of a list I was keeping track of - for every program that says yes that GRE is required right now, I emailed them to make sure, and the ones who have replied I include extra info in the brackets beside the "yes" to "Emailed?". Every program that I listed as No = they don't require it confirmed Edit: the ones where I have no brackets beside the "yes" to "Emailed?" means they didnt reply to my email yet, and when I say "GRE Required?" is "No" it means their website says it or their email reply to me said it
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Yeah that's true. I hope I'm faced with the conundrum of actually choosing which type of schooling to accept the offer from in 12ish months' time - not a bad dilemma to have by any standards. Medicine was what I thought I was going to pursue for the past 10 years of my life but this past year really opened my eyes up to how cooler clinical psyc is in terms of that integrated therapeutic perspective and not a purely biomedical one
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I've heard the same thing and that's why I will not be talking about it in applications. Another thing to keep in mind is that these programs are long (6-7 years is the norm) so everyone changes a lot as a person over that time period. Who knows, someone like me might do a full 180 and end up solely in academia. But as of rn I'm defo leaning heavy towards clinical only, I'm even applying to med school alongside all these PhD's i.e. that's my level of commitment to clinical things as of today. But yeah sadly you can't be open about it unless you're applying to like a PsyD probably. And only one of those in Canada is accredited
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This might be the key detail - I aim to use the PhD to work as a clinician rather than in academia so the research fit aspect is something I'm willing to be flexible with somewhat (within reason obviously)
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I feel like 10-12 might be around what I end up applying to as well, but finding profs with research fits is the biggest thing for me first and foremost. Anecdotally, I know people in previous years from my uni who apply to just one program and get in, but that also might be because they're really strong applicants. Personally I'm going with that higher value because I need to shoot my shots to as many places as possible since I'm not as strong of an applicant (86ish GPA, haven't even done my honours yet (doing it this upcoming year), but really strong volunteering and professional experience). Unlike what most people seem to think about the place, I would actually love to go to a program like Lakehead - Thunder Bay is pretty much the same vibe of city as where I'm from (it's a bit bigger but yeah). So I think I'll focus most heavily on that one but try the other ones too because living in a bigger city and going to a bigger uni would be a nice experience
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Seems like the right person to contact, thank you for tracking this down!
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Does anyone know where I would look to find out if OISE is going to require GREs this cycle? I can't even find an email address for someone to ask directly
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Thanks for the replies @higaisha and @Clinpsyc01, it makes more sense now. @NeuroLim3, I have no concrete knowledge but I feel like programs waiving GRE for this cycle will understand that those who entered their Masters in the waived-GRE-era will also understand that these students may have not taken the GRE at all and it'll be like a special-case thing where we won't need to. Ideal scenario is just deleting the GRE from existence for good but that's not happening anytime soon I don't think lol
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Hey all I was wondering if you guys had any insight on something So this is going to be my first cycle applying to grad programs in clinical psyc (I'm a fourth yr undergrad), and typically admission statistics tables show about a 3 to 10 percent acceptance rate. But then I looked at Lakehead's tables and the rates reached upwards of 30 percent some years (in terms of the ratio of offered admission to total applicants). Not a huge number of students actually end up accepting their offer from Lakehead though and that's why their enrolled number is much less than the number of those offered admission. (I've confirmed that this is true by emailing Lakehead.) Why is this true? Why are a lot of people treating Lakehead as a backup?