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MeekoKeeko

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    Detroit, MI
  • Application Season
    2015 Fall
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    PhD Media Anthropology

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  1. Faculty are also trying to make sure someone is a good fit. Mentoring a graduate students can be a lot of work and there is a great deal of financial investment, as well as time. It benefits them just as much to get to know the candidates as well as possible, and some things will never shine through a "paper" application (I know they're all online now, yadda yadda). I think faculty are just as curious (maybe more so) about who we are as we are curious about them. Just my two cents/another perspective on the situation.
  2. ALOHA! Unofficially accepted to UH Manoa for Developmental Psych!! Had no phone interview, but was asked follow-up question a month ago via email. Emailed last week to inquire about status, received reply last night (Sunday night?? lol) that the decision was made "late last week" and to look for my official letter in the "near future"!!
  3. I'm considering a few Developmental Programs, but I can't seem to find much information regarding funding and GRE scores etc, compared to Clinical programs. Are Developmental programs equally as funded? THANKS!
  4. Thanks so much for the help, guys. It's really appreciated. I think I just got overwhelmed by having missed such an (apparently and obviously) important factor in admissions. I will definitely be speaking to the professors with whom I work.
  5. Ok, I'm going to stumble through this, so bare with me. I've recently graduated with a B.S. in Psych from Wayne State University. I have a poor-ish GPA (3.5), and a less than perfect in-subject GPA (3.7). I do have three years of undergraduate research experience, and four years as a volunteer for a children's support group program. I also received decent GRE scores (V- 760, Q- 710, W-5.5), and I do believe I will be receiving a couple of very strong LORs and one somewhat strong LOR. I have, according to the PIs of my current labs, a great sense of my research interests and good personal statement. My concern is that I have been completely ignorant about posters or publications. To be honest, I didn't even know undergraduates did these until I stumbled upon this forum. No one in any of my classes, my labs, or in my chapter of Psi Chi has mentioned any of this; not even the professors I've spent a couple years working with have. So am I royally screwed? And is there any way as a post-baccalaureate student, that I might be able to take a directed study course and work on a research topic for publication? I feel like I missed the boat big time on this, and I'm panicking... (yes, I do know that I should not.) I feel like maybe if I had been an honors psychology student, I might have known about this poster/publication ordeal, but I switched to psychology late in my career, as it wasn't until then that I became impassioned for research. But I guess that explanation would be best saved for my applications. So what-da-ya think? Do I stand a chance? Can I get published in a year and a half as a post-bacc? Am I fretting over nothing? Is the academic culture at my school fricken wacky and out of touch? LOL Gah! PS - I am currently enrolled as a post-bacc student, as I am just filling my time (between three volunteer research assistant positions) with extra fun psych classes. Also, if you're curious why I didn't apply when I graduated from undergrad (in 2010), that is because I finished my bachelors degree during the beginning of chemotherapy, and was subsequently out of commission for 10 months thereafter. (More on this in a later thread, as I have some seriously dubious thoughts on battling cancer and my personal statement.)
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