biopsyc22

For an update, I've yet to receive any reject/interview letters or emails. My programs were experimental psychology/biopsychology. Programs applied to: Rutgers, WSU, UT Austin, ASU, WUSTL, K-state, UVM, UDel

No invite or reject yet from Emory. I applied to the neuroscience & animal behavior within the psychology department, but it's a joint program between Psyc and Neuroscience departments. Good luck to us both!

When did K-state send your interview request?

Surely I'm no the only one scouring both this board and the other place for schools that have already sent interview/reject emails. But that other forum is only for clinical students, which doesn't help us would be experimental people as our due dates are usually 2-4 weeks after theirs. Format: Emphasis: Your background and rough grades: Programs applied to: Interview invitations, method of delivery, and date received: Rejection notifications, method of delivery, and date received: Have any of your programs sent other people invites: Format rational: 1) Different departments often have different due dates. 2) How do you compare? Let's find out! 3) It helps other applicants find their programs. 4 and 5) Method of delivery and date help us know if an invitation/rejection should have arrived. Clinical people mostly receive invite phone calls from their adviser interest while most rejections are sent via email; a few people have received both mass invite/reject emails or snail mail letters. 6) You may still have a chance! My applications: Your background and grades: Psychology major, over 30 hours of zoology type courses, and 7 terms as a RA. Grades: upper division was 3.8 while lower division were bad due to misdiagnosed health problems, for which I provided medical documentation. Whether or not that applicants you out is yet to be seen. Programs applied to: Rutgers, WSU, UT Austin, ASU, WUSTL, K-state, UVM, UDel Interview invitations, method of delivery, and date received: None Rejection notifications, method of delivery, and date received: None Have any of your programs sent other people invites: WUSTL and WSU's biopsychology departments have sent invites to at least one person each. Note about WSU: they didn't receive or otherwise lost one of my transcripts and didn't notify me until 13 days after the due date. Then the offered to extend their deadline by 2 days while my university was shut down for the break. Best of luck and please help network with your fellow aspiring experimental psychologists.

No, you shouldn't mention it. The exception: if depression significantly impacted your grades and you have medical documentation to back up your claims. If your grades over all are bad, then this won't help. But if you have one very clear low point, then providing medical documentation may be appropriate. Openly discussing any type of sexual dysfunction is really a taboo and may be taken as you not having proper personal boundaries, which will reflect poorly on your ability to be a mental health professional. Recall that therapist-client relationships are therapeutic relationships and therefore have very stringent rules to be followed. This is actually written into the APA ethics code. Your communication with clients is solely for their benefit and treatment and it is an ethical violation for you to communicate personal information for your own purposes. Mind you, I'm not claiming this is your intention with wanting to share such information - but interviewers may perceive it as such! Also, grad committees have hears hundreds of applicants say they want to become a professional psychologist to "help people." It's cliche, unoriginal, and beating a dead horse. If this is a Ph.D. program, then you should talk about research interests. The entire point of getting a Ph.D. is doing research, so you need to sound interested in doing research. They might not care if you intend to pursue research after completing your Ph.D. Just remember that as a Ph.D. student you're being paid to publish papers with your adviser's name on them. As an academic, their career is based on publishing papers.