I-O Prospects

You have to look at taking a year off as a chance to move in the opposite direction; sieze the opportunity to get better at stats/math. I felt as if I were in the same boat as you when I was in my undergrad and masters. www.khanacademy.com <--- a bunch of youtube videos here. Hundreds. Stats, tons of math, history, etc. ^^^^^^^ Graduate of MIT. Great at explaining things. Start for the beginning and work your way down to an appropriate level. I seriously doubt you'll need to study diff. eq. for any non-math based program. I will be using his help to study for my GRE the second go-round.

Thank you. It does. I guess I'm going to study and retake the GRE to get a little extra oomph in my application. Any experience with the new GRE? I've been out of the GRE loop for a couple years now.

Hello all, this is my first post. I was wondering if anyone had any insights into UCF's I-O (M.S.) program. Has anyone attended or been close to anyone that has? Specifically: How did you find the curriculum? Focused? Challenging? Did you have a life? How was admissions competition? Your GRE? GPA? Other relevant experience? Here's a little info about me: I attended a mid-sized state school in Florida for both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I graduated with just a 3.33 overall undergrad GPA, 3.8x Psychology GPA (60 hours). I then completed 19 hours in the I-O Master's program at my school. I wasn't too thrilled with the curriculum, but loved the profs. I swapped over to another track and started taking general classes. I bailed my second semester in the program with a GPA of 3.68 and went over to earn a M.S. Administration with a 3.8 overall grad GPA. I think landed a sweet GA gig and enrolled in the MBA thinking this would be the way to go. I decided after my first semester in that this program wasn't for me...you can see a theme here. I attribute it to a) being stuck at the same school, not meeting the faculty/program interviews, and not performing adequate time preparing myself on what really motivates me/research interests and aligning my focus with some of the professors. I'm really social with profs when it comes to random chatter...might be too social. I am really quiet in class. My limiting factors are my GRE (1090) and research experience. I perform very well in classes, grade wise. Looking to change my lack of "sharing" in class. TL;DR: I'm interested in getting back into Psychology. I want a program that fits me well. Part of my leaving my original program was because I-O students were stuck taking "core" classes from the four main areas of psychology. I continually asked myself why I had to take developmental psychology, adv. cognitive psych, and cog. neuro as an I-O student. It's something I still don't agree with. Many students complained to faculty and they were not interested in changing it. My voice would just be another set of breaths that would be ignored; I bailed. It looks like UCF's program is 100% focused. How were job prospects? How were internships? I am ultimately interested in a Ph.D but just in case I don't land a slot I would like to have experience in consulting or performing corp. functions such as t&d, test development, etc., so that I may land that job. Out of all the Public I-O programs in FL, I like this one the most and am really only interested in UCF's. How do you think I my chances are? Stats: GRE 1090 (640q, 450v) Didn't study. Should I retake under new GRE format? GPA: 3.33 Cumulative undergrad, 3.8x last 60 hrs, 3.8 cumulative M.S. ***Will already have a master's help me out?*** Research: I did tons of directed studys and have nothing to show for it. My files are gone. However, I do have my name on a student presentation...last position though. LOR's: No problem. Internship: I *might* have one coming up, performing ALL sort of office functions.. some HR based functions. For a Nursing Agency I have worked for since Jan. 2008. Thanks! and sorry for the long winded post. Just found this board and really like it.