Lisa44201
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I would suggest spending the time improving the rest of your app. GRE scores alone will not get you an interview/invitation. 85th percentile is fine. Raising the scores higher than that will show AdComs that you can take tests. It will say nothing about your ability to conduct research. Unless you're looking at schools where the GRE cut-offs are higher than what you have (many will post that data on the department website), I'd leave it alone, and work on making yourself a more well-rounded applicant.
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I am finishing up my MS in a fully funded program. The concentration I'm in (Experimental) is very statistics intensive. I got my BA from a very small school, and had no publications, so I needed the time at my current program to build up my CV. I wouldn't say it's a waste of time - I learned a great deal, and think I'm more competitive this time around w/r/t PhD apps. My mentor and I have very different research focuses; his is Developmental, and mine is Personality. It's worked out fine. PM me if you'd like more info.
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I would ask, especially with the deadline for that fellowship coming up.
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TL:DR.
You can still get a clinical PhD with an end-goal focus on research. You'd get clinical training, sure, but you can still do research.Any research-based reason to having an eye on UIUIC, UVA, UCB, or any of the others? As in, are there people at those instututions who you would fit in well with? Or are you looking at the big name schools because they have big names? (Disclaimer: nothing against big name schools). Possibly the most important thing in a Psych PhD program - Clinical, Developmental, Cognitive, doesn't matter - is FIT IN THE LAB. If there are researchers in the big name schools whose labs you'd fit in well with, that's great; if you're looking at the name of the school and not the name of the researcher, you're setting yourself up for rejection letters.
I would go with no, don't share on the SOP. The SOP is the time to explain how your interests would make a good fit in Professor XYZ's lab.
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School: U Kentucky
Area: Clinical
Rationalization: I have two other interviews. Losing one sucks from a numbers perspective (as I tried to tell my sister, it's not one rejection, it's 20% of my applications this cycle; she was not amused), but my husband didn't want to move to a city.
Word: Eh.
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Neutral.If you were to take a year off, it would depend on what you did with it (i.e., research in a lab in your field, etc.); otherwise, doesn't matter, I don't think.2). If you have a good reason for underloading, I don't think it'll be a problem, provided you can explain \ have explained it (by good, I do not mean I-was't-interested-in-any-of-the-offered-courses; I mean, I/my-SO-had-a-baby-in-October, or somesuch)
3. Check the Results Search link. It's a guess. Some schools have sent out acceptances (!), some haven't extended interview invites yet.
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An interview is just that: an interview.
As far as talking to grad students: will you be staying with a student over that weekend? If so, that's a good time to ask some questions; if not, there may be time during the interview weekend specifically designated as time for current students to talk with the interview group. Remember, they were in the same place you are! They probably had many of the same questions.
Especially as a New Yorker, I tend to speak quickly. Some of the best advice I received was to think for a good three seconds (an eternity!) before I asked a question or responded to one.
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For most of mine, I had one POI at a school. I too have a fairly narrow research focus, and there aren't a whole lot of people in my specific sub-specialty. I applied to work with the people I cite seemingly every time I write a paper, as that's a pretty good clue for me that I'm interested in their line of research. These people just happen to be spread across several institutions.
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Waitlists do happen, and you may not find out you've been wait-listed until after interview invites go out. People do get accepted off of wait-lists, but it's not as common. Have you applied to any Master's programs?
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I feel a lot better this time around. I'm finishing up my Master's, and have more research experience & publications under my belt. I also have a sharper focus in my SOP this time - I almost like this one. I have two interviews this time, and one is with someone who I've met at various symposia, so it's not like I'm facing a complete stranger. We'll see what happens!
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Waitlisted at Texas Tech (Counseling PhD).
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I'm going to get mine coffee mugs from the University where I'll be headed.
I have already heard from all of the universities I applied to and I already accepted an offer. Now, I want to give a thank you note to the professors who wrote LORs for me. I don't know what to give except that it would include a thank you letter and an update on my application. Most of the profs who helped me are either diabetic or allergic to chocolates so that's out. What else would be a good token?
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If you don't start living your life for yourself, now, when will you?
I was trying to take baby steps in saving up each paycheck for a vehicle of my own. But as mentioned, that got ripped from me for tuition. I guess it just angers me because I have so many freedoms unnecessarily taken from me on a regular basis and I go crazy when it happens each time. Like when my boss told me I couldn't draw at work after I'd been doing so for over a month (boring job - does NOT require full attention) and told me that being an artist is exactly like cold-calling, I wanted to hit her. And I don't mean that lightly - I actually wanted to reach over her desk and beat her face bloody. When loved ones control me, I cry...when people I don't like control me, I get very angry. Either way, I become unstable and it's not fun.
And sadly, my mother has already told me I need to get my degrees now now now. She forced me into college right after high school. She had me applying to grad schools before I even got out of undergrad. Odds are she will have me hunting for a PhD in art (I don't think such a thing exists) before I'm done with grad school. Basically, there is no compromise with her...if you don't do it her way, she screams and verbally abuses me until I agree to everything she says. And I know my breaking down and doing as she says has roots in my childhood. Waxing psychologist now, I used to just do what she said when I was a kid because she would always threaten to hurt or kill my grandmother (her mother, with whom we lived) if my grandmother ever shot her mouth off when Mom screamed at me. So I just did whatever she said so no one got hurt. I would even lie if I had to. It was just a connection my young mind worked out and now as an adult, while my grandmother has long since passed away, I still have some thing in my head that says, "Do what she says or something bad will happen."
And my mother is also at an age now where she could have a stroke or a heart attack. She is really really good about working herself up and stressing herself out really really badly. I worry I would make her sick or worse if I don't do things her way, and I don't know if I could live with such guilt. I know this sounds silly and I think I'm going into "life story" mode. I guess I should at least be happy that I was "allowed" to go to college for something I wanted to do rather than something of her choosing. It's not even the schooling that bothers me...it's the loss of freedom of choice as well as financial crises. It's this nonsense of, "I know you better than you know you."
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true, but i love my inspiron in the blindly-loyal sort of way; i've had problems with it from the first moment. first it was this weird thing with the touch pad no one could fix, then the battery shit the bed, it only sporadically picks up wireless, etc etc - on top of the fact that it's just slow. i upgraded, which somewhat helped, but windows vista is still so slow it makes me want to cry. i love it because it has gotten me from point A to point B and sometimes back again, but my first inclination is to run screaming from a dell, though i am open to convincing.
with all that said, can you tell me about your 1720? why that computer? what are your specs?
Why this computer? I had been routinely decimating Gateways, and the Dell was on sale at the time I was looking to replace my last victim computer. My younger sister had a Dell laptop that refused to die (still worked 5+ years after being dropped onto a concrete garage floor from 4ft, etc).
ELF (evil little f*cker) stats:
3GB RAM
Windows Vista 32-bit
Intel Duo T7250 @ 2.00 GHz
17" (I think) screen
8hr battery (I did have to replace this last year)
I have bilateral carpal tunnel. It is almost impossible for me to write with a pencil; I take notes on my laptop. One of the external speaker protectors finally fell off a few months ago, and the case has a few dings here and there, but I'm hard on stuff, so it's not completely unexpected. The biggest problem, honestly, has been finding a backpack big enough for it to fit in, because the 8 hr battery sticks out away from the body of the computer. It's also seriously heavy. It does what I want it to, and when it does freeze up on me, I know what I did to get it to that point, and how to fix it. Back when I had spare time (read: no kids), I used to do some light gaming (Diablo II, anyone?), and it could handle that.
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It happens. If you haven't heard by the end of the week, maybe pick up the phone.
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I love my Dell Inspiron 1501, but it's going on 5 years, and I fantasize about Macs, though I know nothing about them.
Does anyone have any advice on a computer they purchased for going back to school? What did you end up buying? What do you wish you had bought? What specs were you looking for? And most importantly, if you own a Mac, out of all the beautiful Macs to choose from, which did you pick?
Any help is much appreciated!
I love my Inspiron 1720, which'll be three come this summer. If you've had a good experience with Dell, why switch brands? My $.02, I'd go with a newer Dell.
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I am applying to several Masters programs, but as a back-up to PhD programs. I would like to continue to a PhD. My interests lie on the border between Psych and C/CJ, so I've applied to Masters programs in both fields, but PhDs in Psych only (I'm finishing up a BA in Psych currently).
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I highly doubt people are going to laugh if you get water or a soda. When I went to interview, the going-out part was much more about being social, not sloshed. I had coffee (black, not Irish) the first night, and one beer the second. Had a great time, both nights. Ditto what one poster said about the maturity level being much better than in undergrad.
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An author received a bad review by a critic in the local newspaper. The author wrote the following letter to that critic:
"Dear Sir / Madam,
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house with your review in front of me.
Very soon, it will be behind me."
Happy thoughts, people. Happy thoughts.
- eco_env, joops and mandarin.orange
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I have every right to be angry with my profs for giving me some very bad advice. I grew up being taught that you are just as responsible for the advice that you give as those are for listening to bad advice. Moreover, it was not "solely" my decision: I was very heavily encouraged and influenced by them to pursue graduate study. I wouldn't have pursued it if they hadn't encouraged me to do so.
Um, no. Bottom line, it was your decision to send the apps out. Having said that, I too was heavily advised to apply to grad schools, and it's not looking good for me right now. I'm frustrated, absolutely, but at my advisers????- No. It's not their fault. Yeah, I too probably would not have even thought of grad school had they not mentioned it, but it's not their fault I haven't been accepted anywhere. I'm responsible for making my own decisions. I'm not sure how it is that you are not responsible for yours.
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Hahaha! So glad I'm not the only one who had to figure out what POI, LOR, and SOP meant on their own. (+1 to MojJingly!)
I think I'm going to start making-up my own ridiculously misleading acronyms so everyone else is confused as we are. For example, anyone's top school can be S.T.I.L.L.T.A.N. (School That I'd Literally Love To Attend Now)
Anyone have any others?
Not an acronym, but personal short-hand:
Snowball school: school I don't have a snowball's chance in He** of getting admitted to (but applied to anyway)
So what age are the ages of all you grad school hopefuls this year?
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