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Hi everyone! I hope you guys are doing well. UofT was my last hope and I heard back from UofT a few days ago with a rejection. Those who got offers, congratulations!! You guys worked hard to deserve it and those who are in same situation as me, I hope this will become a useful experience for our future success! At least, the painful waiting game is over. Since now I heard back from all the schools I applied to this year, I'm wanting to send emails to the professors who wrote me reference letters. I want to thank them for the letters, tell them however I didn't get any offer and ask if I can contact them after 2 years to ask for new reference letters. I need help on how to start the emails. Does anyone have any advice for this?

any updates from UBC M.Ed program?

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Hi @lmw1496! Thank you for your kind reply to my post! I received an email from my school saying that there is a opening for RA position at one of their research labs. I applied and got an interview invite! (which I am surprised because they never even replied to my application in the past). The interview is scheduled for this Friday. I have no experience on a RA position interview (I worked as an RA before but it wasn't empirical) so I've been googling some tips on how to prepare for it. If you (or anyone on this forum!!) have any tips that might help me with my preparation, it would be very thankful!!

ahh I see!!! thank you!!! ... another 2 weeks of this mental torture :0

Hi @MSW2020lm! Regarding "end of March or early April", do they mean it in terms of rolling out the results?

I still haven't heard back from any school and I'm assuming I will have to give it another try next year. I've started planning how I want to spend this year, preparing for the next round and wanted to ask for some advice. I'm really wanting to have more experience at a research lab but I find it hard to get an opportunity to do so. For those who have research experience and who wouldn't mind sharing, through what route did you guys find the RA position at where? Are there any tips? (I'm graduating from my undergrad this coming April). Another question is, I had my references this year from professors in classes I was taking at the time I applied. I will have to ask for new ones for my next application. What are the tips to find academic references after getting out of school? Thank you in advance

Thanks for checking and letting me know! I think what you were looking at is the status of your applying process! When you click "manage", it shows status of review process as well! Mine shows "in progress". Maybe your's has already changed there? The letter with instructions must be more accurate but just in case you might be already able to accept the offer!

Hi! Just checked my junk and i didn’t get anything i guess it’s a sign of a rejection.... Did your application status change on CWL after you received your letter?

anyone else heard back from UBC?? I know @counspsycappapplied for MA program. I wonder if UBC sends out results for both M.Ed and MA at the same time.

OMG!!! congratulations!!!!!!!

Is this regarding SFU or UBC?

just out of curiosity: do you think grad schools' decisions can be influenced by whether the applicant has completed their undergrad degree at their school?

hi guys, I'm looking for some advice. I found out that I checked a wrong box, stating that I have not requested for the prerequisite equivalency test (which I did). It could be obvious since I submitted an approval letter with my application, but do you think it would be a good idea to contact them to let them know about this?

shit.. are they done rolling out results for accepted candidates..........

just wondering since people are talking about Yorkville U. Would pursuing masters/doctoral degree online be considered as qualified as on-campus programs when searching for jobs in the future?

anyone heard back today?

Hi guys, It's March already. Schools started rolling out their results and some of us have already heard back from schools with good or bad news. I know many people here including myself suffered from anxiety and stress about this waiting game in the past couple of months. During this time, my anxiety got really bad and it kinda led to self-blaming and low self-confidence, especially after finding out the mistakes I've made on my application and my interviews (ruminating what I've should have said but didn't). I believe not all people here are going through this same experience with me, some of you might have done really well and boosted your self-confidence as a result. But for those who are experiencing same anxiety, depressive moods or self-blaming, I wanted to share an episode of a podcast that really helped me to alternate these negative thoughts into more realistic and positive ones. Some may be already familiar with this podcast but it's called "The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos". On January 3rd they talk about the topic of self-blaming and self-compassion. Hoping everyone here can manage this anxious time in our life in a healthier way, I recommend trying listening to this on your spare time! it's only 40 minutes long

Omg!!!!!!!!! Congratulations ?!! i would love to hear your gpa/work experience too!!!!

I saw it from the website where they upload admissions statistics!

agreed. I'm assuming a lot of those people who chose to apply after losing jobs have compatible work experience etc. # of first choice candidates is very high - 480. This will be a competitive game.

last year was around 510 applicants. 2017 was 480. So I guess it's been somewhere around there in the previous years.

Found out the total number of candidates for UofT OISE M.Ed Counselling Psyc this year is 781.. UofT told me that they accepted 35 students last year and will be the same this year. 35 from 781 is around 4.54%....acceptance rate of Harvard is 4.6%....haha...idk what to say

Thank you so much!!!!