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Anyone heard from France? Now I'm super confused about the process. What happens if I'm approved?

Coming this fall for a PhD in Cog. Psych! Exciiiiiiited.

E/E, VG/G, VG/E for me, 3.88 GPA. The second reviewer was a really weird guy and made absolutely no comments about my proposal. My first reviewer made me all kinds of happy. I wonder who they are...the field's terribly small...

I...got one..too??? HOLY CRAP. CANNOT THINK COHERENTLY. Surely this is a clever ruse!

In my research statement, my broader impacts section covered the cross-cultural work I've done (speakers of multiple languages, corpora of multiple languages), the variety of sources I use (highly generalizable) and my intentions to publish and present my current research at international conferences as well as disseminate the data on the internet (although admittedly some of this you can chalk up to the GNU public license, which is a lovely thing). In my PS, I addressed the cultural and economic backgrounds of the undergrads I supervise, the cross-disciplinary research group I am a member of, and my intentions to involve more women (esp. undergrads) in my field of specialization (which is notoriously male). My research is inherently disciplinary though I didn't apply as such, but I stressed my project goals as being cross-disciplinary and generalizable to effectively every existing language (seriously...). I also talked about putting all my data online and using the data as a tool for education (say, in courses) and training (to train previously mentioned hypothetical female undergrads who want to learn how to analyze large datasets of words). I'm also one of those obnoxious people who bolded and italicized all of the catch phrases they list in their guidelines, because winning proposals did that but I didn't want to have goddamn bullet points. If I'd wanted bullet points I'd have given them an outline of my life story.

I have been contacted by a professor at IU's Cog Sci program, but I applied to Cog Sci, not Psych. I think they're still in the process of figuring out interviews or acceptances. Not quite sure what they tend to do.

I only did three last year (all spaced about a week apart from each other) and was pretty exhausted. Depending on how many days these interviews are a piece, you may regret trying to do all of them, unless you're made of stamina and can do the Tour Guide Barbie from Toy Story 2 thing. If you can, stack as many as you think you can tolerate.

As far as I'm aware, it's okay to not go to some interviews, especially if they're toward the bottom of your list. A good ratio of keep to total would be 5/8, if you have to throw out the bottom ones--since I'm assuming you still haven't been accepted, so you will want a bit of a cushion. Certainly people withdraw their applications at all stages of the process.

That was part of my hesitation. I understand this as a general rule. But you could take it as a sign that they're going through the applications and should be done shortly.

I'm in the cognitive (and questionably, developmental) division, but I have heard from Cornell. I think they've started sending out invitations since they even had a sample itinerary ready for me when they contacted me.

This is actually EXTREMELY commonplace in psychology and cognitive science. It is an extremely long time to spend with applicants, and is pretty nerve-wracking for applicants, as far as I remember and from what my peers indicated. Essentially they set up a lot of activities (introduction to the department, lab tours, dinner, interviews with individual faculty members, chilling with the grad students you may be working with, etc.). Furthermore, in psychology, I don't know of many individuals who were accepted without attending the interview weekend. OP: If you can reschedule the exam at all, I would do that. It's not a lot of class to miss if it's a school you really really enjoy going to. I visited three schools last year and missed a lot of class and still ended up with a 4.0 that semester after writing a 91 page thesis. It's not undoable, though it may be pretty stressful to transition between school and visiting weekends.

Topless bar.

My list is in my signature (computational modeling and psycholinguistics), but my GRE's 700/780/5.5 V/Q/A and my GPA's a 3.88/4. Kind of vanilla stats, really. Much better than last year, but still kind of obnoxiously overachiever of me. I'm at UT, though, and I don't think we've started sending out invitations. Who are you interested in working with?

Yay cognitive science/psychology programs. I'm mostly into computational modeling and psycholinguistics, so my list of schools is: MIT - BCS Cornell - Psychology UC Davis - Psychology Rochester - BCS UIUC - Psychology Indiana - Cognitive Science Edinburgh - Informatics (MSc and PhD) So far I've heard from Cornell and potentially UIUC, but I won't know for sure for a bit. I've already accepted that MIT won't be inviting me, but that's okay. Boston was just the only city in the US on my list.