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You seem like you already have a good decent background. As someone in a behavioral neuro program, I agree with the other posters that class A vs. class B isn't going to make or break you. I'd recommend stats if you haven't taken it (or even if you have. you can never have enough stats) and keep up with the research. But, if you're set on the options you listed, I'd take the upper level neuro class. A good bio-based neuro class is never a bad idea.

Hey, I did this at all my interviews. It's really not so bad. I mostly got asked fairly general things. Questions about my past research, why I wanted to work with Professor X, what I was interested in studying, and of course random "what do you like to do for fun" type questions. Basically, after the interviews are over, all the faculty will get together and discuss the interviewees, and see what the general consensus is. It's actually kind of advantageous to you, so if you make a few mistakes in an interview with one faculty member, but rock your other interviews, they're more likely to just attribute it to nervousness since it wasn't an across the board type thing.

I had to go for a second round of apps as well. It wasn't too fun to have to re-apply and rewrite all those statements of purpose, but worth it in the end. Good luck to everyone here!

Also be prepared for questions about your past research (if applicable) as well as more open-ended questions. "What do you enjoy doing in your free time?" came up at every single interview I had...not a difficult or trick question, but it can kind of throw you for a loop if you get into that one track INTERVIEW MODE mindset like I tend to do. Remember the interview isn't necessarily so much of a way to assess your credentials (which they can get from your application/CV) but perhaps more of a way to asses you as a person and see if you're the type of person they want in their program.

My professor this semester encouraged us to use R. I really love it, but I agree that the SPSS interface is quite polished.

Haha, this book was both my undergrad stats book, and now my first year grad stats book. Like you said, it's not nearly as dry or boring as math textbooks. I also like that he doesn't put his sole focus on SPSS (which I hate).

Aw, I wish this thread had been around last year when I was applying! Good luck everyone!

For the most part, no one really cares about AW

1. I'm not really sure, but yay NC schools! I did my undergrad at Wake. 2. Research experience certainly helps, but lack of it is not necessarily a dealbreaker like it usually is with PhD programs. You say you're a junior though, so you still have time to get involved in research, if you haven't already. This is also an excellent way to form relationships with professors who will write you letters of recommendation. 3. ~9 seems pretty standard. My undergrad adviser told me to apply to about 10 (though I was applying to PhD, and he suggested applying to a mix of Masters and PhD programs just in case) 4. Yes, adcoms take the rigor of your undergraduate school into account when looking at GPA. Keep in mind though that there will be other applicants from equally good or better schools with top GPAs. But a lower GPA isn't necessarily an application killer if your other credentials are good! I had a 3.1 cumulative..

With regard to letters of recommendation, I'd have the MD's write my letters. Two of my three letter writers weren't from my undergrad institution and had no clue about my academic abilities. I just attached a CV and a transcript to my requests for letters.

I'd imagine you have a pretty good chance.General Psych MA programs (especially the unfunded ones) tend to be slightly less selective (in terms of GPA/GRE) than PhD programs. Not that your scores are bad at all, but you're in a good position with regard to GPA/GRE for MA programs.If you're worried about not having taken many psych classes, a lot of General Psych programs are designed for people like you who weren't psych majors but eventually want to have a psych-related career. If you're really worried about it, you could take the psych GRE subject test if you think you can do well.

You do it on test day. No, you don't have to memorize them.You can look them up.

Agreed. I know non-native speakers who have done much better on verbal than native speakers. That said, one thing that might help you is to just read. Memorizing words is all well and good, but honestly knowing the definitions of a bunch of random words that might or might not be on the test probably won't help you that much. Reading will improve your vocabulary and understanding of the English language and sentence structure. Also, this is completely unrelated, but fuzzylogician, for some reason your profile image is what shows up for every single thread in my notification feed, regardless of if you've actually posted in it.Weird.

We have the same luxuries. Bread machine is so awesome. Throw some ingredients in, and fresh bread in a few hours. Also good for pizza dough. Love my electric tea kettle. Not just for tea, but also for quickly boiling water for rice or pasta (or whatever else). I also keep one in my office for when I'm starving and want to make myself ramen noodles.

I've been told by a couple advisers that, although it varies greatly from school to school, some places frown upon this kind of thing. They see it as you not really knowing what you want to do. But, like I said, this varies. A lot of the applications I filled out asked if I was applying to multiple programs within that school.