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Can't you recognize a purposeful misspelling when it's right in front of you? I guess not. It's really not necessary to be a grammar hound simply because you disagree with me. You're entitled to your own opinion. Did you go to Hunter? Being that I do go to Hunter I'm entitled to speak truthfully about my experience, the good bad and the ugly aaaaaaaaaaalllll the ugly. Its good for undergrads as it is very much structured as a community college. There are research institutions and there are teaching institutions. Bottom line Hunter is not a "known" as a research institution and funding is not something it has or is known for. That's just the way it is.

You're going to grad school you shouldn't have to pay for it. If there's no funding for you then they aren't worth your time. If you go with CUNY them only worth while programs are through the CUNY Graduate Center and that's where all the funding is at. Anywhere else in CUNY is lower quality than a community college. I'm not dissing CC's lots of courses are higher quality at CC's than universities. However the research and university resources necessary to complete research does not exist at CUNY. I had to use my alumni status with my undergrad school just to access journal articles because CUNY has access to dittley squat. Then there's data analysis CUNY doesn't have programs for that either. SERIOUSLY STEER CLEAR OF CUNY ITS LIKE DUMPSTER DIVING FOR A GRADUATE DEGREE.

CUNY is a severely scroooooood up system and they are far from having their shit together. Its not surprising that Brooklyn just simply held onto your application. That's just how they work unfortunately, severely dysfunctional CUNY schools!!!! Its unfortunate, but it is what it is in crazy CUNY.

Last, in developing your CV be sure to list relevant coursework such as stats calculus and other life science and physical science. Display your foundational courses in science so that you show you can think critically about findings in scientific endeavors.

OK so you live in Lost Angeles, UCLA and USC psych research is in many medical areas. Medical Psych research is generally in the Department of Internal Medicine. Look at the psych dept of universities near by especially those I mentioned (I'm from LA so I'm very familiar with them area). Look through all there faculty pages just like the grad school pre-application process. Read through all there faculty pages and what their research interests are. Send them an email and your CV (in development) as you gain research experience. Write what seems to be like a cover letter but as an email explaining your interest in their lab. Many faculty will have a lab page and often a special page for "prospective students". now your aren't a PhD applicant but YOU ARE someone interested in JOINING THEIR LAB. So follow they process that any prospective student would, to become part of a research lab. As an internship it won't be paid. You're gaining experience and hopefully a letter of Recommendation. Need to gain research experience, that's how!

HTTP://www.indeed.com its like the google search engine of job postings. It also includes university jobs higher ed jobs and aaaaaaall sorts of untapped job postings. Most require a rigourous application process.

As I am in your field as well (Animal Personality/Psychology). I would have to agree!

BTW for those rejected applying to hunter college and not the CUNY Graduate Center...... Count your blessings. Community Colleges are structured better than Hunter College. Community Colleges have more science journal access than Hunter which is essential to any thesis/dissertation project. This school is a fricken joke and as a graduate student you wouldn't get funding anyways at hunter. They do not fund their graduate students, no program. BE GLAD YOU WERE REJECTED FROM HUNTER. That school isn't worth your time or money. If affordability is in your list of pros and cons TOSS out those cheap tuition schools because there's a statistically significant chance that your cheaper tuition comes at the price of low quality education, services, research equipment etc.

First application round i applied to 3 PhD programs and 3 Masters programs. Now im in the shittiestasters program ever where neither the faculty nor students do researcj even though a project/thesis is required. Its the shittiest thing ever and more than 50% of the stidents leave the program after the first year. so i recently applied to 3 PhD programs while finishing my thesis. In a total of 2 application periods I've applied to a total of 9 (1 was reapply) I have ended up in a masters that has been purely a hinderance academically and professionally for a number of reasons. I fear my application package with just my BS in psychobiology would have been a better application than the one that includes my MA where it is like taking a step backwards. So now I must PUBLISH, retake the GRE to simply get a better than great score, hunt down more biology field research IM NOW MOVING TO AFRICA FOR A YEAR with 12 hour days living and breathing research then come back and present at MORE conferences to get published.

Policies and Procedures also known as P&P's: They dictate bureaucracy. I've found myself in many hairy bureaucratic situations for reasons beyond my control due to my demographic membership. I've seen it ALL, almost. As others stated be secretive with new research and keep them to yourself pursuing them under cover, so to speak. Find a new place of research to call home first and THEN file a complaint. DEFINITELY make noise make sure there's a record of the misconduct with the school because she's only going to do it to everyone who crosses her path after you. Play nice and get your good reference letter exiting on good terms as someone mentioned but once you have a new place do what you can to hold accountability as high as possible. I feel like I could write a book on policies and procedures in the university system. I'm too familiar with this stuff. Some universities are all too eager to shove it underbthe rug and forget about it. Some universities have an impartial investigation by HR and not by the all to biased dept chair favoring their tenure faculty. Some (even HR, and then office of the university president) will be quick to threat to fire you if you "rock the boat." When filing a formal complaint, always include recommended action that you are requesting. As a tenure she is required to sit on committees and then sort putting in a certain number of administrative hours to contribute to. These hours also can be accounted for when faculty attend "professional development" courses and seminars. This can take the form of sensitivity training, ethics in research ethics in academia. Its like traffic school for academia lol. it sounds like she needs to learn ethical conduct.

Keep in mind, based on your description of the situation it sounds like the data belongs to your adviser. Since you analyzed and wrote up what sounds to be your adviser s "intellectual property" you will either have to include him in authorship or get his approval to move forward and include him in the acknowledgements since your hypotheses and analyses were "piggy backed" off of his intellectual property. I had what would have been 2 undergrad publications but the data was not my intellectual property. The PI did not want to pursue publication of what was my own independent hypotheses and analyses. His energy was focused on other topics. As a result I used them as writing samples for prospective PhD advisers in the pre-application process. EVERYONE kept asking me why I wasn't getting the amazing stuff published. Alas the data was not my "intellectual property." This is quite an important consideration moving forward. I certainly hope you can get it published but be careful and be sure to inquire with your adviser via email on the subject of permission to attempt publishing solo. You want to be sure to get it in writing so you always have an email that gave you consent to use his intellectual property.

Generally since papers written during research tend to cover numerous topics and/or aspects of a subject (assuming there is more than one analysis that was a significant finding) you may want to take certain parts and then focus on one aspect. Elaborate on it the research questions that had the most significant result. then repeat this for maybe another publication. Secondly, conferences conferences conferences, publishers journals and then sort are looking for new research at conferences. Present posters or give talks. Posters allow more one on one so you can get better feedback. Have copies of the proposed publication to give to publishers before formalizing your submission to a journal. If they like it atvthe conference they'll most likely publish it. Conferences conferences conferences. go go go!!!

Mentioning something of this kind is really an all or nothing type of thing. If you mention it, then its worse to be ambiguous. the ambiguity of your brief statements leave their imagination wandering all over. That results in rejection. However, contact program coordinators individually and request to provide an additional letter of explanation for extenuating circumstances that are reflected on your transcript.

I encountered something similar, where you need to mention something but dont want to be excluded on the basis of mentioning it. My first round of apps on 2010 i did half where i mention it and half where i did not. Some schools refused to take my payment for the application fee and returned my application with an email that said "Dont apply here. we didnt charge you your application fee either" The other half i was wait listed and accepted when i omitted these details from my SOP. The ones I mentioned it was politely worded such as the example above making brief mention and moving onto the rest of the statement.

If you start a degree at a school youve already completed or near completed a degree at, this is often referred to as "Academic Incest" It sounds like they wanted you to spread your wings and fly to another program where you can expand your breadth of perspectives rather than continuing in a perspective on topics where you've already learned that perspective from which your professors provided you. And yes, if you conveyed that much love for the school it sounds like the healthy choice is to go somewhere else and see how great other schools are which rejecting you would help you to do. In turn, they were helping you to move forward and diversify your background in your subject.It may not feel good now, but down the road you will look back and will be grateful to have diversified your breadth of perspectives about your subject. As far as whose on top and which schools are not, there is more to schools that some numbers that some editor published about. Don't put so much weight on those numbers. #63 is still damn good out of 2100 schools. Try not to focus on the little things. If you were accepted to a school you applied to then you should consider them. If they were really such a crappy school at #63 then try to get yourself back into remembering why you chose that school to apply to in the first place. What drew you to that program at the school that did accept you?

While I have a GPA far above 3.0 I know many people who are accepted to PhD programs with 2.5 GPA GPA doesn't mean dittley squat as long as you have awesome GREs This is precisely one major reason why GRE's are required, to assess one's abilities beyond their transcripts. You can ENTER graduate school without a 3.0 but once you are in a program you MUST maintain 3.0. Maintaining 3.0 and is not the same as needing one before you start grad school and you DO NOT need a 3.0 to get in. Tell your story, explain why you didn't have a 3.0+ as an undergrad and hit the ground running to master the GRE.

No you do not have to use your 3 NSF funding yers right away. I looked into this very closely and spoke with NSF GRFP specificlly about this. You do have to fill something out as a formality, but you are not required to use the fellowship immediately, regardless of the reason for not wanting to. There are several reasons not to make use of it right away. Some programs always have funding for your first 2 years and so of course one might delay utilizing their fellowship in the scenarios where those individuals did get a NSF GR Fellowship.

On some level you have to pick and choose your battles. Timing is everything. If its all turned in, just ask the profesor about the grade. Dont make an issue or bring it to the attention of the professor if you have a good grade out of it. What i mean is, when u pick and choose your battles, dont pick a battle that is somewhat of a dead horse. It would have been good to confront them a bit earlier on in the process walking right up to each one separately and telling them how you feel ...before it got to be too late. This would have been better earlier on in the whole thing. But at this stage in that its turned in, focus your energy where it needs to go and focus on moving forward. Think about what youve lerned from this awful experrience and how you would respond differently if it happens in the future. ie. be more quick to confront and more responsive in communnicating so to prevent this type of behavior in the future, moving forward. Of course if it impacted your grade negatively then something should be said and in that case most definitely let the professor know. In that case its not a dead horse yet.

Now those schools that accepted yoou recognized you are an asset and were smart enough to accept you. THAT is not what makes them less than quality of a choice. What may make a school less than optimal is if they stunt your educational and intellectual growth as a result of being in their program. If not, then its robably a pretty good school, because YOU are a pretty damn good choice.

This is what is known as "Over-Attribution Theory" Dont over attibute your rejection to somethng personally linked to you. ITS NOT PERSONAL. Rejection is about steep competition. You are among many many MANY amazing candidates. Maybe your research topics of interest aligned with faculty to a lesser degree compared to those admitted. There are a number of factors and it doesnt make you any less of an awesome choice. They had their chance and it's their loss, not yours!!!

These are great! Only half of the joke applies to me though (i think). I'm too humble to be arrogant but pretty dang self-confident. On the one hand I prepare for all rejections. However, when I get those rejections, my thought is "yeah thts right im too too good for your school/program" Unlike the joke, and many of the thoughts posted in this forum, I never question my accesptance to my current program. I was like "Damn straight you should accept me! GOOD CHOICE!" However this was a bad move as the prrogram turns out to be such a piece of crap program (beaurocratically speaking) that I end up saying, "what the hell did i get myself into? This place barely desrves accredation. What hole did these faculty crawl out of?" This meaning they are extremely outdated and really need to go back to school themselves and crawl out of their 1960's mentality and outdatedness. So unlike the joke "I don't want to belong to any University that will accept people like me as a member" I, myself dont want to belong in a club/university that accepts me due to ME being the only asset to their program (and one other person). This is because they need to except people with less research experience and people who are a blank slate and people who will blindly accept and not question their outdated information, which is something only the blank slate can do with ease. "I don't want to belong to any University that will accept ...................." ...outdated faculty like THAT and disregard the changing landscape of research in their field which is counter-productive for...... " .................people like me as a member" On the flip side those who rejeced me, I was waaay good enough for and on par and its their loss which sucks for them. Am I arrogant? I think not, as I am humble and openly accepting and admitting of the flaws in my application package for which i was not standardized enough and frankly stood out too much for the comfort zone of conventionalism in the programs that rejected me.

Dont forget publication may be great but presenting at conferences are also EXTREMELY important. It also show cases your verbal skills, atleast conveying them on paper as you add them to your CV.

The bottom line here and what the common trend is when you read through the thread is this: Your GPA may suck, but your GRE's rock!!! You may have been out of school a while, but your GRE's rock! My GPA a 3.35 undergrad and 3.29 masters coursework coupled with my 69 percentile GRE's have gotten me rejected 30 times. thats across 3 application periods. Im in a masters program and finishing up my thesis. - No publications despite my 3 straight years of undergrad research. Side note to those who hope to publish - If the data is not your "intellectual property" but rather someone elses (ie P.I.) then you cannot publish without their consent or without putting them on the article also even if you write the whole thing and even if they were your hypotheses and not theirs. I have publication worthy materials of scientific journal formatted write ups of my own hypotheses but CANNOT publish it due to a disinterest in putting forth the effort by the PI who the data belongs to. Your data is your intellectual property and therefore you can publish what you write up from your masters degree. For MASTERS STUDENTS or those to be: Always do YOUR OWN PROJECT, unless your faculty promises to share in their publication wth you. Your data=YOUR publication NOW I have to wait at least 2 years before I can start a PhD. (1) I have to publish before I apply to compensate for scores and GPA (2) I cant apply til at earliest 2015 so that i have time to publish which means i cant start a phd til 2016. If you have an undergrad AND grad GPA from a masters IT IS FROWNED UPON if your undergrad GPA is lower than your graduate GPA You are going into YOUR specialize field and are expected to be soooo interested in the subject that you are suppose to have a higher GPA in grad school than you got as an undergrad. 30 REJECTS Those GRE's wil MAKE or BREAK you. so i have to become a certifiable master of the GRE's as well before I'l ever get into a PhD $60,000.00 later in debt of my masters.

I have glowing letters of rec thank you. Is this where you go to try and bully people when you feel insecure with yourself?

No kidding! I listed topics covered NOT "sections" to be filled out in the NSF application. Try to read more carefuly next time. What YOU need to do is STOP TWISTING MY WORDS and stop claiming that I said something that I never did. Go get your rocks off somewhere else! Of course broader impact runs throughout. DUH!!! Thats why I didnt refer to them as "sections" but rather topics that need to be covered within and/or throughout depending on which youre talking about. Was that too abstract for you? Is this you making assumptions again? Or no? Take some advice: When in doubt, or when you do not concretely know something, ask more questions instead of speculating. Gather more info, don't spit clouds of assumptions about things you do not know, and read more carefully.