galipettes
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Sign up for the SANS listserv (social affective neuroscience society)....I got like 10 emails this week from them asking for people to send graduating undergrads their way for lab manager/RA positions (but be warned, a good chunk are in Europe, mainly UK)
Could you please PM me the info as well? Thanks!
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Has anyone heard back from UCD?
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Following the Notification thread can be a little tiresome given that many posts are not about Social psychology. Anyone hear news from UCSB? UC Davis?
I haven't heard back from UCD but I checked their program calendar (it's on their website). It says something about a recruitment day on 2/27...so I'm wondering if all the interview invitations have been extended.
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I get this one ALL THE TIME. It's always somewhere that doesn't even have a quantitative psych program, and when I mention this to said person or persons, they will shoot back, "Well, is it really THAT important that it's in quantitative psychology? I mean, there are other types of psychology, right?"
Right, because devoting 5+ years to a psychological subfield that I'm not as interested in would be TOTALLY worthwhile... NOT!!
That reminds me of the common "so, you'll be a psychiatrist?" saying. For some reason, everyone seems to believe that a degree in psychology means "mind-reading" and therapy.
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I hear the "you're definitely going to get in somewhere" phrase all the time. It just stresses me out more! Then it's the, "don't worry, things will work out in the end" or "just get a job!" "what's the point of wasting 5 years of school? 4 years of undergrad was enough!"
There's also that incessant commenting on how psychology is "useless"
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Just so you know, it seems that UMD doesn't do interviews. They just accept. And they will probably tell people who they've decided to take next week.
Darn. Do you think it'll be up on the ASF website before they send out the decisions via postal mail?
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To the person who put their rejection (UMD-college park) on the results survey, was it for clinical psychology?
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Who got the UMD Social Psych interview?? Who was your POI???
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Could the UCDavis poster please pm me your POI???
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Boston College, could you msg me your POI as well? Thanks!
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Nothing from UMD yet. They're supposed to have reviewed the applications this past week or next week (I forget which). I would anticipate a call next week.
How did you find out? Did you call the dept? Also, do you mind sharing who your POI is via pm? Thanks!
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Has anyone heard back from UMaryland-College Park, Boston College, or UCDavis?
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Has anyone heard back from UCD or UMD?
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you should call the dept and find out if they'll still read your application.
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That happened to mine as well. I posted the most recent ones
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I'm in the social psych PhD program at Northwestern. We have people here who got worse grades than you, but they are the exception to the rule and usually took a year off to work in a lab full time or as a lab manager. You've already applied to at this point just wait and see. However, in the mean time, start planning for the future in case you don't get in (and honestly your research experience has way more pull than the grades once you pass the first cut...your GPA is enough to keep you in the running, its the GRE scores that are a bit low). If you don't get in this year, retake the GRE and study like hell. DO NOT APPLY TO MASTERS PROGRAMS. The sad truth of it is that getting a masters in this field does NOT help you at ALL unless you weren't a psych major in undergrad. All the schools you listed will make you redo the MA/MS anyway as part of the PhD program and it won't get you out of school any faster (plus it is a huge amount of money). If you don't get in, try to find a full-time position in a lab as an RA or lab manager (I happen to know at least one social psych lab at NU is currently looking for applicants for a lab manager position...)
Thank you! that was a really helpful response. I know that my quantitative scores really brought me down and the change in the test format took me off guard. Does it not matter that I have been a RA for 3 years & conducting my "own" research?
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well, it's too late to start applying to MA programs right now... My grades do show an upwards trajectory, so I'm hoping that they'll see the steady improvement? Honestly, I just did so poorly my freshman year but my other semesters, I have been on dean's list and such... i don't know.
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Sorry for posting one of these topics, but I was just feeling really discouraged and nervous.
So here are my credentials-
major: honors in Psychology minors: French, Environmental Policy
my cumulative gpa: 3.198 (not including current semester's coursework)
major gpa: 3.724
I took my GREs twice and did not do so well...
I was above the 80th percentile for verbal and writing the first time around, 70th percentile the 2nd.
My quantitative scores are horrendous... 30th &50th percentiles.
I have research experience with 3 different labs, one cog sci, one developmental, and one person/soc psychology.
I'm still doing research in the personality/social lab and doing an honors thesis right now.
I feel like my grades are so sub par that I don't have a chance of getting in anywhere.
I have corresponded with a few POIs but I'm not sure if that means anything.
The schools I'm applying to, I know some are complete reaches but I don't know if they're all reach schools...
Northwestern, Boston College, UMD-cp, Northeastern, UC Davis.
All for a social/personality phd.
I apologize in advance for my long post!
Social Psychology Fall 2012 Applicants
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Has anyone heard back from Boston College or know when they'll be sending out invites/decisions?