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I was wondering if people could offer some advice on how to describe beginning a PhD program (I have a lot of anxiety around saying the wrong thing in social situations). In most programs you aren't awarded doctoral candidacy until after your 2nd or 3rd year, so is it inappropriate to say something like "I will be pursuing a PhD at ___ university starting in fall 2021", since you technically aren't at doctoral student status at that point?? If that is not the proper language, how else do you describe it?

Has anyone heard from Kent State, Case Western Reserve, or University of Cincinnati (all clinical)? Still crossing my fingers that I might get an interview with any of them