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I'm in a similar situation, and I would also be interested what people have to say about this.

You would discourage a student from applying to a program just because you cannot write him a letter?

Anyone have an idea how much AW scores matter for psychology programs? My verbal and quantitative scores are pretty good (V: 165 Q: 160) but AW is pretty terrible (4.0).

Hey all, I'm rather new here, and I don't know if this has been addressed before. I did a forum search and didn't find anything, so here we go: I know some psychology Ph.D. programs require interviews (as specified on their website). However, there are some schools that don't explicitly say whether or not an interview is required. I know that the school where I am completing my undergraduate degree doesn't require interviews of prospective graduate students, but instead invites them to an optional "recruitment weekend," where the prospective students have basically (if unofficially) been accepted, and we are just trying to sell them on our program... I talked to my research advisor, and she said that when she was a prospective graduate student none of the schools required an interview, but that it is becoming more common. My question is this: Just how common are required interviews for psychology Ph.D. programs? If the school's website doesn't explicitly say they require an interview, would I be safer to assume that the do or do not require an interview? For people who are already graduate students: what schools did you apply to and which ones required interviews? Which ones had recruitment weekends, etc.?