Lisa44201

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.

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)

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My personal interest is criminal behavior, which is right on the border of psychology and sociology. A psychologist will look at someone who has committed a crime and try to figure out what happened in that person's life that caused that person to commit that crime. Sociologists (criminologists, really) will look at social factors, such as poverty, social support, presence or absence of social welfare programs, etc. As another poster stated, it's the difference between the micro view and the macro view: are you looking at individual trees, or the forest? It's going to depend on what you want to do, career-wise. Social psychology is pretty cool, if you're interested in why groups of people do things, or why individuals behave in certain ways in certain situations. I have a hard time wrapping my brain around some of the macro theories in Sociology, which is why I'm majoring in Psychology

Odd you haven't heard back from UN-L yet; I got a thanks-but-no-thanks from their ClinPsych people two weeks ago. No idea on the others.

I have a 3/y/o and a 9/m/o. I'm finishing my BA now, looking at / waiting to hear from MS/MA/PhD programs for the fall. Something you might want to check is if your particular college offers daycare on site. Mine does, and it's a godsend. I get reduced rates because I'm here on student loans, and they gave me a discount when my second child was born. My 3/y/o loves telling people that she and her baby sister go to college with mommy.

Meh, I'll be posting here, too. It's fewer clicks from here to the Results page.

+1: Pathological Optimism Incinerator

Getting my BA in Psychology in May. Applied to 10 programs- 8 Clinical PhD, 1 Counseling PhD, 1 PsyD. 2 rejections so far. Going batty.