cautiouslyoptimistic

To the people who got the invites at Stanford (affective sciences) and Berkeley (social) can you please PM me with your POI? Thanks and congrats!

To the person who posted an interview invite at Stanford for affective sciences would you mind telling me who your POI is? Feel free to PM me. Thanks and congratulations!

I do know that Virginia is still in the process of sending out interview invitations, however, I believe Haidt is going to be a visiting professor at NYU's business school next year and thus is most likely not taking on any new students. Sorry to be the one to tell you that...

I think I'm officially going crazy now. I held it together last week, but now I'm at the point of thinking...come on already!!

The "full experience" of interview weekend is not all that spectacular. I mean it's nice to get to know lots of people in the department and see if you are a good fit socially, however, you also have to spend all day with people you just met in what is kind of a marathon interview. I think your relationships and reputation mean a lot in this field and the last thing you want to do is start off your career by going back on your word with something. Also, keep in mind that if you pass up on WUStL, you may alienate them, AND you still might not get into Boulder. You could potentially shoot yourself in the foot by switching to Boulder, however, what you could potentially gain from being in Colorado on the exact interview day may not be much. I STRONGLY recommend you stick with WUStL, and tell Boulder that while they are your first choice, you simply couldn't go back on your word, however you are really looking forward to visiting and appreciate that they are flexible with your visit date. That is just my opinion though, and I am only one person.

Get in touch with professors whom you used to work with and ask if they have any suggestions and/or contacts. I got my current paid RA positions that way.

Just called WUSTL psych and apparently they are in the process of sending out interview invites (for the social program).

To whomever received the interview at Stanford for social psych, would you mind sharing who your POI is? Feel free to PM me if you'd like. And congratulations!

I don't think Stanford has sent out their social invites actually. I saw that post from the Stanford person about invites going out on Wednesday or Thursday, but did you notice that that is the day all of these cognitive people posted interview invites for Stanford? AND an actual grad student at Stanford in the social program said that they were just getting to reviewing the applications this week. So I wouldn't give up on Stanford just yet.

To the person who got the interview invite at Virginia--was it a phone interview or an in-person interview? And if it is the latter, can you please share what the interview date is? Thank you and congratulations!

Most of the really top programs have a 3 or 4% acceptance rate, so it becomes an issue of whether you are the top 1 or 2 people for your POI, not just do you have a great application. If you have a fantastic application then it's not terribly hard to be in the top 10%, but it's a whole other ballgame when you are talking about needing to be the best or second best person who applied to work with a particular prof. In addition to that, there has to be funding available for you, which can be dictated by so many different factors and has been a particularly pressing issue the past few years. But like someone already said, most programs still haven't notified people, so don't get too discouraged just yet.

The C&P people at NYU conduct a separate interview process from those in Social. And this is typical of most psych departments.

To the person who posted the UNC invite, could you please let me know who your POI is? Feel free to PM me if you feel more comfortable with that. Thanks!

I did receive a confirmation email from Columbia, however, if it says online that your application was submitted, then I wouldn't worry about it. If you want to double check though, I would just call up the administrative assistant for the management program (or the entire doctoral program), explain your issue, and ask for him/her to confirm that your application was submitted.

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Overall, it seems like you had a good conversation and that just by having the conversation at all means you are on a short list. But she probably called 5 other people and is narrowing it down to 2-4. If you have a shot at a particular fellowship, then you have a leg up on everyone else and will probably get an interview regardless of how the other phone calls go. I know of someone who got into a top 10 program last year without any research experience because she qualified for a fellowship. So it definitely helps. Best of luck!

Hi guys, I couldn't find a thread for management/OB phd programs so I thought I would start one. I applied to a handful of social psych programs as well as a handful of management/OB programs and I was just wondering if anyone else on this site applied to management or organizational behavior programs in business schools. Also, do you happen to know when interview invites are sent out or any other insider information? The business programs I applied to are as follows: Columbia Harvard Stanford Stern WashU Wharton Best of luck everyone!

Having a masters can be seen as harmful in top social programs as well. Generally speaking masters aren't considered research degrees, and thus, they don't really help you out in the application process. In other words, you don't get bonus points for having a masters. The only way a masters helps you in social is if you had bad grades in undergrad, but stellar in your masters program (so it helps make up for your mediocre undergrad GPA), you are now affiliated with another top university (for example, if you went to Berkeley for undergrad and then got a masters at Harvard, then you are now affiliated with two top schools, not just one), you somehow get additional research experience in your masters program, or you get great recommendations from profs in your masters program. But even the last three can be acquired by having a full-time (or even part-time) research job. My opinion is just one of many (and thus, take it with a grain of salt), but I've worked at labs at four top-10 social psych programs, and all of my advisers have told me not to go into a masters program, unless it's a statistical/methods based one. And even then, it may not help you much. As for going into clinical or social, I would go for social, but apply to schools that also have a clinical program. Then you can collaborate with clinical people but still stay in the overall discipline that you are probably supposed to be in. Also, keep in mind that clinical is MUCH harder to get into. I mean all psych programs are hard, but clinical is the hardest with the lowest acceptance rates of all the major disciplines (i.e., cognitive, social, developmental, etc.). Good luck!

The best of the best (i.e., Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, WUSTL) sometimes don't interview. Columbia interviews, and has sent out invitations already. I don't believe WUSTL interviews, but another person on this forum said they do. Yale definitely interviews. I'm not sure about the others. Best of luck!

Yes, Virginia interviews.

I thought Stanford admitted without an interview. I used to work there and that was their policy then, but maybe it has changed in recent years. Columbia definitely interviews, and has already sent out invites.