Hello everyone,
I know this might be a little late, but I was wondering whether anyone had any idea on how I should proceed.
One of the schools I applied to was uOttawa for clinical psychology, and I was interviewed. However, after the interview, I was rejected (about a week or so later in February), and I emailed my PI. They told me that it was due to the fact that the admissions committee decided that I did not have enough psychology courses...To give a back story, this is my second time applying to uOttawa (with the same amount of psychology courses but a different PI), and the reasoning behind the first rejection was just because it was too competitive, nothing to do with the amount of psychology courses. I talked to one of the members on the admissions committee because I thought it was a mistake, my undergraduate was in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour at McMaster University, how was it possible I did not have enough psychology course credits? The person on the admissions committee said I needed an extra 9 psychology courses and I was extremely confused. They said it was very difficult for them to transfer "PNB" courses and they also did not count any neuroscience courses as psychology courses. When I countered this, I was told that actually, I apparently only needed 5 more psychology courses... I was heartbroken and confused to hear all of this, and went to someone at McMaster who said they would review this with the chairs of PNB. That was over a month ago, and I haven't heard anything back.
I am unsure what to do. At this point, I accept that I was ultimately rejected from uOttawa, but I am still sad about the outcome and whether these schools will change their policies. It makes me nervous that if this happened at uOttawa, it might've happened at other schools too, where they don't accept some PNB courses as psychology courses? I hope this also helps anyone who went to McMaster as well. Should I just drop this matter? Has anyone has also been through this? I just feel really defeated this year, but this is my dream, so I will be taking another 5 more psychology credits just in case so I can reapply next year...
Also, feel free to personally message me about it