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Rejections: Northwestern University University of Iowa

If there is a dinner with the graduate students the night before the interview, am I going to be really over dressed in a dress and heels? I wish that how we dressed didn't matter at all and we could all just show up in jeans and t-shirt and not worry about it!

There's a lot of threads on here about good, funded master's programs. William and Mary, Wake Forest, Villanova, and NYU all have good experimental programs, and William and Mary is fully funded, Wake is at least partially funded (not sure, but I think some people are fully funded). I can't speak for the other programs, but the focus of the W&M program is do research, get published, get into a PhD program. I think including a POI is a good idea on a Masters app, but I think that the research fit is a little more flexible than in PhD programs.

Haha. Oh. The power of missing just one letter. I thought she said "I think there are a few people..." not "I think there are few people." Now I look silly.

That last part is extremely unfair. Some of us desperately need to work another job just to make ends meet. Not because we want to live comfortably, but because we want to live at all. You should take your own advice and remember that everyone is coming from different circumstances. Ignore that, apparently I can't read. I think if the job is research or at least career related (teaching a course at another local school) then it's ok. Talk to your advisor about it first.

Interview Weekends ASU (Quant) : Feb 20-23 Davis (Quant): Feb 25ish Duke (Social): Jan 24-26 KU (Quant) : Jan 25 Lehigh University: February 15 Notre Dame (All): February 7-9, 2013 Stanford University (Social): February 14-16 UCLA (Social): January 10-12 
UNC (Quant): Feb 15
 UT Austin (Social): Feb 22-23 
UT Austin (HDFS): Jan 24-26
 UBC (Social): Feb 7-10 
USC (Social): January 24-25
 UC Irvine (Social): January 28-29 
UC San Diego (Social): February 7-8 Vanderbilt (Quant): Feb 14-16
 WUSTL (Social): Feb 21-23 Yale (Social): January 27-28 University of North Carolina (Social): February 7-9 University of Rochester (Social): February 1-3 UCSB Feb 22-23 Univ of Oregon February 1 - 3 University of Toledo (Exp-Social): Jan 25th or Feb 11th UC Berkeley (Social): February 11-12 American University (Social): February 11 IU-Bloomington (Social): Feb 15-16 Florida State (Social): Feb 21-24 Rutgers-Newark: February 15 OSU (Quant): February 15 Penn State: February 14-17 University of Alabama: January 27-20 Texas A & M University: February 28 - March 2 University of Michigan (unofficial): February 21-24 University of Chicago: February 16-18 University of Minnesota: March 1-2 University of Denver: February 21-24 Cornell: March 8-9 University of Delaware: February 21-22

Me too, please.

Sigh. Can the person who got accepted to Miami University let me know who your POI is?

Seconded.

This. No one likes to interact with someone who goes in feeling superior without any information to base it on (are you older? I don't understand how you can say before you even meet these people that you know more and have more life experience). "Unempathetic" is way, way different than being a jerk who thinks he/she is better, knows more, etc, etc, etc. No one is asking you to become BFFs with every grad student in the department, but you really have to be friendly, nice and polite.

I did early on, but not for the last couple that I posted.

Got this on on the SAN listserv last week. Research Assistant Position in Social/Developmental Neuroscience A Research Assistant position in cognitive/social neuroscience and developmental psychology, at the undergraduate, or post-BA level, is available in the Brain Development Imaging Lab (BDIL; http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/bdil/web/BDIL.html) at San Diego State University (SDSU). Our lab investigates how different parts of the brain are connected and how they work together in typical and atypical development. We work with children and adolescents with autism, trying to understand what happens to the brain when typical developmental processes are disturbed. Dr. Inna Fishman, who is going to be a primary mentor for the RA, is specifically focusing on investigating social brain circuits, that is, those brain networks that help us navigate – and thrive – in complex social situations as we grow and mature. Our chief research tools for examining those questions are neuroimaging techniques (including functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging) combined with comprehensive neuropsychological and behavioral testing. The person in this position will be responsible for database maintenance, subject recruitment, fMRI data acquisition and, most importantly, for fMRI data analysis. The ideal candidate will have at least moderate comfort level / previous experience with brain data analysis (e.g., EEG, fMRI) and familiarity with programming and scripting (e.g., some knowledge of Matlab is very helpful). However, these are not requirements, as we have had many capable students who were able to acquire and profess the necessary skills while working in our lab. A long-term commitment (at least one year) would be ideal, as the above analytic techniques require extensive training and involve a relatively prolonged learning curve. That being said, a motivated student will have an opportunity to carve out her/his own research project and to carry it to fruition, including publishing a manuscript. Position is available immediately. To apply, please contact Inna Fishman at 619-574-2299 or ifishman@projects.sdsu.edu.

UIowa person, can you PM me your POI and area?

Me too, please.

Wait, you're applying to undergrad? Do you have to declare a minor right away? That's odd. My suggestion would be take a class in each. See which appeals to you more, and then decide.

I was too last year, but nothing this year. Who knows.

Oh, excellent. That does make me feel better. I know last year they didn't invite people until after SPSP, but I wasn't sure about this year.

Princeton Social poster from today, can you PM your POI? Thank you!

Same here!

Yeah, I figured it was a recent decision. It's disappointing, though.

I wish I'd known that before I applied. Oh well.

Well, in that case, since I don't feel guilty about posting it now, can the person/people who got the Princeton and UVA (non-clinical) interviews PM me? I'm just desperate for information, since I've heard no news, good or bad.

Neither of the schools I asked about have been posted here.

I would PM them if I knew who they were, but I do not, seeing as how there are no usernames on the results search.

I hate to inundate this thread with posts like this, but can the person who posted the UW info share their POI? Thanks!