William_James

Definately don't lose hope until the end. My friend last year was looking at a shutout, and then suddenly in March he got emailed from one of his top schools b/c the first interview went terrible. So the prof called my friend and he ended up getting in. Point is, there's always a chance of second-round interviews. The "hot shots" will sweep up all the first rounds of interviews. But, they can only go to one school!

In the worse case you take a year off, gain some lab experience, retake GREs, just push hard as you can. This is my second time around, and the time I took off in between made a big difference not only in making me more competitve, but helping get a grasp on what I'm most interseted in studying the next many years of my life. This is SUPER important - I know some people who got into PhDs right out of undergrad and burned out quickly because they never took time to really think deeply about what they wanted to do. Finally, just remember there's a lot of luck invovled!

anyone else who didn't have much action this week from their schools? What do you think...next week will be the big week for notifications?

anyone else who didn't have much action this week from their schools? What do you think...next week will be the big week for notifications?

It's really program dependent. Some do informal interviews to figure out who to invite to the formal one and some do interviews over the web. I know a couple of people who had skype interviews because of the professor's schedule (traveling, etc) and feasibility. So neither good or bad really.

"If you don't get a reply it might be a sign that this is not the program for you."

I think that's false in almost every case. The reason you don't get a reply usually is because they are very busy. Most professors will even tell you that they are not working on exactly what you're interested in if you had listed your interests. There's not much you can read from a non-reply, even though our intuition is to take it as rejection. Mostly, it is unfortunate because you don't know for sure if they are taking students.

In terms of reading into more detail than usual in a reply, I also wouldn't look into it much. A professor currently taking students told me she gets lots of emails and responds to as many as she cans, but in the end she forgets most, and even if she remembered a few waits to put the notes to the stats. So really it's just how you stack up to the competition.

I'm actaully very familiar with what is in this site and how it works. You've missed the point of my first post, which is to make a psychology-specific notification thread for psych grads who browse this specific forum section. The other points of it were summarized by me in the original post and also by gellert above. I'd also add that some people will want to claim the posts on the other section of the site so that if people happen to be applying to or get into the same program they can talk about it in more detail here.

Also, I don't see any reason to waste space on my thread - if you don't find this thread useful then don't use it. Others who do will use it. Doesn't seem unreasonable.

Wow, so much dislike. Maybe I was offering a link to be helpful, in case the OP hasn't seen that section already? The link's not helpful?

The results pages also exist so that people can look things up in a systematic way and not have to hunt here and there for threads that might have dozens or hundreds of posts so it's most beneficial to report things there.

I'm actaully very familiar with what is in this site and how it works. You've missed the point of my first post, which is to make a psychology-specific notification thread for psych grads who browse this specific forum section. The other points of it were summarized by me in the original post and also by gellert above. I'd also add that some people will want to claim the posts on the other section of the site so that if people happen to be applying to or get into the same program they can talk about it in more detail here.

Also, I don't see any reason to waste space on my thread - if you don't find this thread useful then don't use it. Others who do will use it. Doesn't seem unreasonable.

I wanted to get this started. Even though there is a results section, use this thread to claim them or more importantly to give any helpful details you are willing to share (e.g., when interview dates are, how many accepting, who contacted you, etc) that you learn when contacted. It's helpful to put your research focus and area. Also, some people are comfortable listing their stats.

Best of luck to all!

I'm actaully very familiar with what is in this site and how it works. You've missed the point of my first post, which is to make a psychology-specific notification thread for psych grads who browse this specific forum section. The other points of it were summarized by me in the original post and also by gellert above. I'd also add that some people will want to claim the posts on the other section of the site so that if people happen to be applying to or get into the same program they can talk about it in more detail here.

Also, I don't see any reason to waste space on my thread - if you don't find this thread useful then don't use it. Others who do will use it. Doesn't seem unreasonable.

There's a whole section of the website dedicated to this already.

I wanted to get this started. Even though there is a results section, use this thread to claim them or more importantly to give any helpful details you are willing to share (e.g., when interview dates are, how many accepting, who contacted you, etc) that you learn when contacted. It's helpful to put your research focus and area. Also, some people are comfortable listing their stats.

Best of luck to all!

"If you don't get a reply it might be a sign that this is not the program for you."

I think that's false in almost every case. The reason you don't get a reply usually is because they are very busy. Most professors will even tell you that they are not working on exactly what you're interested in if you had listed your interests. There's not much you can read from a non-reply, even though our intuition is to take it as rejection. Mostly, it is unfortunate because you don't know for sure if they are taking students.

In terms of reading into more detail than usual in a reply, I also wouldn't look into it much. A professor currently taking students told me she gets lots of emails and responds to as many as she cans, but in the end she forgets most, and even if she remembered a few waits to put the notes to the stats. So really it's just how you stack up to the competition.