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  1. In my first round of applications, I received just one interview, and it was to a program that was not high on my list. I eventually received a waitlisted acceptance, but I decided to pass since it just did not feel right, even though it meant I would need to go through everything again a year later and I had no guarantee of getting another offer anywhere. In my second round of applications, I applied to several of the same places, including some very highly ranked programs, and received multiple interviews and acceptances. Going at it one more time gave me the results that fit my goals. If your application is improved from year to year, you will not be penalized for being a repeat applicant. Continued progress and experience can show increased commitment and focus. On the other hand, if you apply with nothing new to add, I would not expect your results to be different.
  2. Grad student interviews will range widely. Some are casual and helpful ways to have a breather from the "real" interviews if the grad student just provides you with an opportunity to ask them questions. However, others can be even worse than faculty interviews if the grad student gets on a power trip and decides that they want to use it on you. In that case, find any list of "potential interview questions," look for the hardest/most-annoying ones, and those are probably what they will ask. It comes down to the individual conducting the interview and (sometimes) to the style of the program itself, but for what it's worth, I definitely encountered more of the "ask me anything" type than the "I will crush you" type.
  3. I have been accepted to a funded, top-50 clinical psych PhD program. The article "a" is used purposefully there. It's just the one. While some are telling me to accept the offer as the obvious decision, the offer came from a secondary POI that doesn't quite match up with my primary interests (i.e., work is within the same overall lab and has similar approach/leanings, but, relative to my interests, the POI focuses on completely different presenting problems within a population). With that, I am desperate for more feedback. I had partially considered my application process this year as a dry run from the get-go since I felt that my application would be stronger with an additional year of research (my GRE scores are high and prime and ready to go). With that, I limited my apps to a handful of programs just to see what happened while being fully prepared to take another year to focus on building my experience before reapplying again next year. If I had been accepted by my primary POI at this school, I'd be good to go, but I am concerned about heading there with the offer as it stands now. Am I crazy to think it's a better move to build more experience and go through the application process again next year with a renewed focus on my specifically targeted interests? Or should I just accept the offer if the match seems "close enough" and just get to getting on with the program so that I can knock this degree out? I know there's no way for anyone to answer this for me, but I'm all for anonymous internet input at this point - anything to give me more thinking points.
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