Joe22c

Hi Everyone, Good to hear the-heads up on "East of Adelaide." Does this apply to all of Adelaide? Or just the South side? What about the Adelaide and Fanshawe? Is that still considered a part of the student ghetto? Thanks in advance! - Joe

Hi everyone, My name is Joe and I'll be heading to UWO this fall for my Master's in I/O Psyc. Looking for a roommate? Yesterday I found the best apartment ever. Type: Luxury Condominium. Location: Masonville. Mall is literally outside. Across the street from a bustop. Takes 5 minutes to get into the heart of campus. Not the edge of campus - 5 minutes to get into the HEART of campus. Bedrooms/Bathrooms: 2 bedrooms. 2 bathrooms. No need to share bathrooms. Perks: Mostly grad and professional students; each floor has its own fitness room, laundry room, and garbage chute. Hardwood floors. SPACIOUS. Price: 450-500 depending on which bedroom + price of internet. It was a dream. I saw this yesterday. I called this afternoon; I was too late. It was sold this morning. I haven't stopped kicking myself since. However, there are other rooms in the same apartment. That is, the same luxury condo, the same excellent location, the same 2 bedroom/2 bathroom deal, the same amenities. However, I can't apply to these on my own because these landlords want to rent out the entire roomate. Thus, I am looking for a roommate for these. Let me know if you are interested About me: - Male, 21 years old; turning 22 this October. - Friendly introspective nerd. - Residence Advisor / Don at Queen's University. I made sure the 1st years didn't get out of control - Hobbies: piano, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Fave shows: Seinfeld, Arrested Development - Loves dogs. Don't really care about cats, though. Shoot me a PM if you're interested

Friggin awesome! Do you wanna chat more on msn or something? If so, PM me your msn address and I'll add you :-)

Thanks mate! That's what it's all "A-Boot" haha. I've actually never heard anyone pronounce about like that and I've lived in Canada for 20 years. And yeah, totes. It's sweet deals. I think more people should apply to Canadian Universities. Tuition is much cheaper and financial support can be awesome. I mean, Windsor and Guelph are low tier but they're good for back ups. Waterloo and Western are the real contenders for my heart.

UPDATES: [American Universities] Claremont Graduate University Psych MA (Accepted via email on March 2nd 2011) [Canadian Universities] University of Guelph (Invitation to Open House via email Jan 20th, likely to be accepted) Windsor Applied Social Psych PhD (Accepted via email on Feb 11th 2011) University of Waterloo's I/O Psych PhD (Accepted via email on Feb 24th 2011) University of Western Ontario's I/O Psych M.Sc. (Accepted via email on March 1st 2011) I'm very excited for the University of Waterloo: - Historically, one of the best psychology programs in all of Canada - Potentially 4 years for a PhD; skip the Master's. - 7k per year tuition, 6k per year living expenses - Financial Support = 20k for the first year, 23k for the next 3 years. The only thing is if I went to Western I would have a chance to work with some real superstars (Meyer, Allen?) in the I/O field and so I am very conflicted. Currently waiting back for more information from UWO

UPDATES: [Canadian Universities] University of Guelph (Invitation to Open House via email Jan 20th, likely to be accepted) Windsor Applied Social Psych PhD (Accepted via email on Feb 11th 2011) University of Waterloo's I/O Psych PhD (Accepted via email on Feb 24th 2011) University of Western Ontario's I/O Psych M.Sc. (Accepted via email on March 1st 2011) I'm very excited for the University of Waterloo: - Historically, one of the best psychology programs in all of Canada - Potentially 4 years for a PhD; skip the Master's. - 7k per year tuition, 6k per year living expenses - Financial Support = 20k for the first year, 23k for the next 3 years. The only thing is if I went to Western I would have a chance to work with some real superstars (Meyer, Allen?) in the I/O field and so I am very conflicted. Currently waiting back for more information from UWO

Of the 5 I've applied (3 more applications about to be sent out this monday) so far I've only heard back from 2: ---------------------------------------------- Guelph's MA in IO Psyc program: Submitted materials on Dec 15th. Notified I moved onto phone interviews Jan 20th (~ a little more than one month post submission) Phone interview on Jan 28th Notified I moved onto the short list on Jan 31st Invitation to attend Open House March 4th Windsor's Applied Social Psychology PhD program: Submitted Materials on Jan 15th Invitation to phone interview: Feb 4th (Less than one month post submission!) Western's M.Sc IO Psyc program Submitted Materials Jan 15th Claremont's MA/MS/PhD Psyc Program Submitted Materials Jan 15th Waterloo's MA/PhD IO Psyc Program Submitted Materials Jan 25th'ish. ---------------------------------------------- Meanwhile my friends in chemistry are getting free airplane tickets to do interviews. My friends in the life sciences are doing in person med school interviews. And other people are already accepted into Law School and Masters of Mangement Science at U of T. My good friend in Social Psyc is already accepted into Ohio State, Michigan, and UBC. WHERE IS MY BACKUP NET? GAH. Come on grad schools; give me my validation already!

Your suffering makes me feel better about my suffering :-) Love the signature as well haha. Let me know if you get in! A good friend of mine has already been accepted into the social psyc program at Ohio :-)

No, that's not "actually true." Yes, I've also read that statistic in PrincetonRev. Bear in mind, however, that correlation does not indicate causation. It's Ironic that Princeton Rev encourages test-takers to write as much as they can using the assumption that the correlation between length and score indicates causality as they explicitly tell readers to look out for that particular fallacy. (ProTip: That's the kind of logic flourish that'll get you points. BAM!) Perhaps writing longer = better AWA score. Or perhaps people who have better AWA scores are more fluid and have a tendency to go on and on. If the latter is true, you can't earn extra points by just rambling on and on in an attempt to imitate good writing. It wouldn't work. And again, if length is the most important determinant of AWA score, then my 5.5 would be quite the anomaly indeed considering I divided my time 50/50 on writing and editing.

Are you sure it wasn't because you wrote a crappy essay? Most people overestimate their writing quality. I got a 5.5 and I did not write large quantities whatsoever, in the sense that I wrote them in half the time allotted and spent the other half editing for quality.

Sweet, thanks for the words of encouragement. I suppose that's what I was fishing for to begin with anyways haha. I do have some research experience (4 supervisors in total; 3 of which made extensive use of me ) but no publications under my belt. But yeah; this anxiety is killing me. I just wish somebody would come out with a "You're accepted!" already; even if its a backup school, just something so I know I won't have to carry a sign that reads, "Will analyze data for food" next year. The earliest thing I applied to (Dec 15th deadline) has advanced me to their shortlist and I'm going to their open house in MARCH. Freg. I don't want to wait that long to know whether or not I have a future.

Hey everyone, A Canadian Psychology major in the house! My stats: Overall GPA 3.62 (I did Psychology // Life Sciences for 3 years before going pure psychology, so some of the life sci courses hurt my GPA) Psyc GPA: 3.70 GREs - 1480: 780 Quant - 89th 700 Verbal - 97th 5.5 AWA - 94th 780 Psyc - 97th Applied to: - Queen's University (Organizational Behaviour) - University of Waterloo (I/O Psyc) - University of Western Ontario (I/O Psyc) - St. Mar's University (I/O Psyc) - University of Guelph (I/O Psyc) - University of Windsor (I/O Psyc) And as for the States: - Claremont Graduate School (Some top faculty here; quite prestigious) - San Jose State U (Silicon Valley + California = sweet dreams! Getting an internship at Google would be a hallelujah moment) - Sacramento State U? Maybe? Still considering it. I hear State Universities are subpar and, uh... less prestigious so to speak. So disappointed I missed Stanford's early deadline (Nov 30th?!). Anyways, what do you think my odds are? Also: After a phone interview with Guelph, I was invited to an open house where they tour me around campus and buy me free dinner. Anyone know what the deal is with these open houses? I've googled it a bit before, but am always information hungry.