franki_j

Thanks for the responses! I was especially grateful for the one about Columbia's post-bacc in Psychology, which I had no idea existed. I have been looking into this option quite a lot since it was suggested. I think that I would either want a PhD or PsyD. What I am doing now is extremely research heavy, ie spending hours in the library with no human interaction, and while I do not want to spend my entire life solely focused on research and not interacting with other human beings, as most of my profs seem to do now, I also do not want to stop researching completely. I still enjoy academia, just not to the extreme extent which seems to be required by my field.

I am seriously thinking about going back to school for a second undergraduate degree in Psychology. I received a 3.6 GPA during undergrad with a double major: history/English and finished in 3 years. I spent a year after undergrad waitressing and applying to graduate school. Currently, I am completing a Master's degree at NYU's Interdisciplinary Draper Program, where most of my classes were English/gender studies (I have a 3.7 GPA). I am writing my thesis on white women performing in blackface. My original plan was to apply to English and American Studies PhD programs next year. Here is where it gets complicated. Last year, I entered therapy for an eating disorder. My therapist helped me so much, and I am still seeing her. Previous to going into therapy, people had always told me what a good listener I was or that I should become a therapist, etc. but I never paid any attention. For me, therapists were something abstract; I never really knew what they did and could never imagine going into therapy or being a therapist, even though I do love to help people (this is one of the things that bothers me about my field; it is pretty elitist and most of the work you are doing has no impact on people in the "real world"). Anyways, as I write my thesis and finish up my MA, I find myself seriously thinking about foregoing my current plan and going back to school to earn another BA in Psychology (I have literally no psychology classes under my belt) in order to apply to PhD programs in Psychology. I am wondering what the people on this board think? I would want to transfer the credits from my first undergrad degree so I would not have to take any core classes and just take the Psych classes and gain research experience as well. Any advice? How doable is this? Thanks in advance!