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    It's worth a shot! I did the same thing when I won both the masters and doctoral SSHRC awards without an acceptance.
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    I would definitely ask about funding. I'm surprised they didn't tell you anything about it to be honest.
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    This is why I wish they had left the Master's CGS decisions at the national level rather than delegating it to the schools. It was much easier before when you could win the award and take it anywhere you want.
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    I'd focus on getting some publications. I was told that it doesn't reflect well on people with Master's degrees if they're not applying with at least one publication. If you did a thesis, that would be a good thing to try to get published.
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    It's the end of April. When I won in 2016, the letter was dated April 25. Depending on your university, you may find out earlier in April from the powers that be at your school (they usually get some sort of list before award letters go out to applicants from SSHRC).
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    I definitely agree with the fact that a good amount of application success being due to luck (after you consider all the other important factors that have already been mentioned in this thread). You could look really good one year because the rest of your application cohort isn't as shining, but in a different year be utterly unremarkable the next year. A lot of success also depends on department politics in a given year. Some POIs will be prioritized in being able to accept students in different years (especially in clinical). If you're in a fairly niche area of research (like forensics, eating disorders, or sex research), you're going to have a much harder time since there's less spots for the amount of applicants than say someone doing general anxiety or depression research. Clinical is definitely the hardest of the specialities to get into (in my opinion, it's harder to get into a clinical program than med or law school). Social psych and I/O are also hard specialities to get into, but most experimental programs are easier to be accepted into (at least from my Canadian perspective). It took me 4 application cycles to be accepted into a clinical PhD program (niche research field). I just kept working on my application every year, making sure I was seeking out extra opportunities to improve my application, and it paid off!
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    In my program, we're required to take a set program of courses each semester determined for us by the DCT (e.g., first year is ethics, professional issues, stats, and assessment second year is therapy and more stats, etc). We don't get a choice of what courses to take. The only way to stretch it out would be to take forever n the later years in getting your research/clinical hours done, but I wouldn't recommend it 1) for funding reasons, and 2) you want to be done and get paid as soon as possible.
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    Did your professors/department not recommend that you complete an honours thesis or at the very least an independent project? It puts you at an extreme disadvantage because several schools won't accept applicants without the honours thesis or an equivalent project.
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    SFU always takes a while to get back to students after interviews. After looking back on my past emails, it's likely you'll hear back this week.
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    In previous years, it's usually the 2nd or 3rd week of April, but I think the schools may hear back before. The year I won, I applied as a direct applicant and didn't hear anything until I got my letter (around April 25; letter was dated April 20th).
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    I used Indeed for all my job searching needs between degrees. I found it really helpful for digging out research positions since it amalgamated postings from universities, hospitals, and government all into one place. I definitely agree with @jennifee. Most job postings won't explicitly say that they want a master's level applicant. However, if you have a MA, that already puts you ahead in terms of people with BAs in terms of experience (unless you did a course-based Masters, in which case, you should be applying to the BA level positions for the experience anyways). After my undergrad, I applied to several jobs that called for a Bachelor's degree, but ended up being filled with people with graduate degrees. Apply for everything you can, having a job is better than having no job.
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    It's probably coming from the graduate school. I got emails like this from several schools I applied to. It's so frustrating to receive these as an applicant.
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    Hey! I was an applicant with an experimental master's degree who's now in a clinical psych PhD program. PM me and I tell you a bit more about my application experiences!!
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    UNB will admit you into the PhD program (it's a combined program anyways so it doesn't make that much difference), but will require you to retake the core skills classes (psychopathology, assessment, therapy) if you came from a program that wasn't accredited. There's a few programs that will accept you directly into the PhD with the provision that you'l take any relevant classes from their Master's program that you may have missed (I know SFU does this).
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    Rejections post-interview come from the department; rejections without an interview come later from the graduate school.
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    I'd say your chances are pretty good (depending on the school). Even if you're waitlisted, there's still a chance that you'll get an offer at some point.
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    Looking back at my old emails of previous applications, they usually sed out rejections for people who didn't get interviews a week or so after they sent out acceptances. This email will come from the graduate school.
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    They only do one round unfortunately. From what I gather, they did interviews in the last week and a half of January, and sent out offers this past Tuesday.
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    I'm in first year. My work-life balance is non-existent right now to be honest. Right now I'm mainly doing coursework, along with a research project and one day/week practicum placement. I probably spend around 30-50 hours doing coursework per week, depending on what's due in the next little while. I haven't done much with the research project yet beyond some lit review, but I imagine that it will add around another 10 hours a week.
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    It's worth a shot, but if I'm being honest, the whole application process is very random. Departmental politics do play a sizeable role as to who is accepted and who isn't. You could be the most qualified candidate in your application pool, but in some departments, if the powers to be determine that your POI isn't a priority to take students that year, you're not getting in. It's sucky. I have a friend who's POI at one school wanted to accept her to the clinical program, but the POI wasn't a priority to take clinical students that year, and the department wouldn't accept her to the clinical program (she ended up in the experimental program). If you want to improve your applications, it's worth a lot re-examining your statements of purpose, making sure they're clear and are an accurate representation of your experience, how that plays into the research you want to do in grad school, and how that all ties into the POI. Get someone to look over it for clarity and readability. Research experience also helps; try to get as much as possible.
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    The clinical program committee met today. They usually send out decisions the day after.
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    UNB will likely send out acceptances/rejections this week.
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    I published a few papers (first and second author) and worked in a research/stats heavy job for a while that exposed me to some clinical work. I also did some networking, although ymmv depending on research speciality.
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    I got accepted to my current program after 2 previous application attempts (one with an interview, one without). To be honest, grades and GRE scores will only get you so far. Assume everyone applying has a great GPA/GRE profile. You need to make sure you're excelling in your CV and SOP as well because that's where applicants will usually stand out.
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    I went through 4 application cycles before being accepted. I took the GRE and psych GRE twice (my scores expired right before my last application cycle since I wrote the exam really early in undergrad and then didn't apply until after I graduated due to health reasons).
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