Quant_Liz_Lemon

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Then, I'll just have to wait with you. This upcoming week should be when we hear back from Davis.

Which field? (Are you referring to the most recent post?)

I would assume the opposite. The assistant prof that I work with aims to churn out a lot of research in order to get tenure. He encourages me work on my research constantly. I get a lot more attention from him than my other mentors who are both full profs and much less motivated to churn out pubs.

Research psych is incredibly vague. What do you want to research? If you already have a major in psychology, I don't understand why you would minor in it as well. Would it add to your understanding of the field? Without knowing anything about what you want to research, I would suggest the minor in CS. My programming classes were essential for running R and you will most likely need some programming knowledge regardless of your interest.

I'm not in literature, so take my advice with that in mind. I would NOT give it ANY weight. Translating a book is not the same thing as independent research. They aren't your ideas; they're someone else's. I might give you a little credit if you were to annotate it as well. I would suggest asking your advisor, who will have a much better sense of what hiring committees and/or tenure committees are looking for.

School: Arizona State University Area: Quantitative Psychology Rationalization: Even though I was "one of the most impressive [applicants] in terms of combining personality and quantitative that [my poi] have seen in several years," My POI was "the only person in the quantitative program who could supervise a combined personality-quantitative student by [him]self." He said, that "[g]iven [his] age, [he] cannot guarantee that [he] will be around for 6 more years to mentor [me] through the PhD." At least his email rejecting me was really nice. Word: Blerg

Are you translating another author's work or your own work?

Which branch of Vandy Psych?

I brought a portfolio, but that was more to hold copies of my cv. Turns out that I didn't need them. Actually, now that I think of it, I did have a list of questions in there.

Well, at least that social project can easily be connected to I/O. However, you're going to have to explain why you're earning a masters in counseling.

Also, Undergrad Math: Plenty of it (grades differ, trend is growing vividly across the time) No one knows what "growing vividly" means. You also need to specify what type of math classes you've taken.

Why type of labs did you volunteer in?

It depends on numerous factors. Some POIs may contact all the students that will be interviewing for the lab, while some POIs may not contact any of the students ahead of time. It could also be that those students, who were contacted early, had already been in communication with said POI, but did not contact those who hadn't already been in communication.

Turns out I was right the first time. Oops. Interview Weekends ASU (Quant) : Feb 20-23 Davis (Quant): Feb 25ish Duke (Social): Jan 24-26 KU (Quant) : Jan 25 Lehigh University - Interview Day - 2/15 Notre Dame (CBB/Dev/Quant): February 7-9, 2013 Stanford University (Social): February 14-16 UC Los Angeles/ UCLA (Social): January 10-12 University of North Carolina/ UNC (Quant): Feb 15 UT Austin (Social): Feb 22-23 UT Austin (HDFS): Jan 24-26 UBC (Social): Feb 7-10 University of Southern California / USC (Social): January 24-25 UC Irvine (Social): January 28-29 UC San Diego (Social): February 7-8 Vanderbilt (Quant): Feb 14-16 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 Phone/Skype/Conferences Notre Dame (CBB): December 7, 2012 WashU/WUSTL/ Washington University in St. Louis (Social): December 12, 2012 Notre Dame (Dev): December 22, 2012 UNC, Chapel Hill (Social): November 1, 2012 (Unofficial chat) UT, Austin (Social): January 10, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 4, 2013 UC Riverside (Social): January 7, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 3, 2013 UNC (Social): December 18, 2012 PSU/ Penn State (Social): January 14, 2013 University of Alabama (Social): January 18, 2013 Santa Barbara/ UCSB (Social): January 10th, 2013 UCSC/ UC Santa Cruz (Social): January 8th, 2013 UCSD/UC San Diego (Social): December 27th, 2012 USC (Social): December 20th, 2012, January 10th, 2013

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I think it depends on the program and field.

I reread my letter. Oops. I was a day off. Interview Weekends ASU (Quant) : Feb 20-23 Davis (Quant): Feb 25ish Duke (Social): Jan 24-26 KU (Quant) : Jan 25 Lehigh University - Interview Day - 2/15 Notre Dame (CBB/Dev/Quant): February 7-9, 2013 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 15-16 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 8th Phone/Skype/Conferences Notre Dame (CBB): December 7, 2012 Washington University in St. Louis (Social): December 12, 2012 Notre Dame (Dev): December 22, 2012 UNC, Chapel Hill (Social): November 1, 2012 (Unofficial chat) UT, Austin (Social): January 10, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 4, 2013 UC Riverside (Social): January 7, 2013 UC Berkeley (Social): January 3, 2013 UNC (Social): December 18, 2012 Penn State (Social): January 14, 2013 University of Alabama (Social): January 18, 2013 UCSB (Social): January 10th, 2013 UC Santa Cruz (Social): January 8th, 2013 UC San Diego (Social): December 27th, 2012 USC (Social): December 20th, 2012, January 10th, 2013

You should have a prof write a letter as they are more qualified to comment on your ability to do graduate level work. An alumn won't be able to influence the admission committee.

Mine was unofficial. My POI isn't allowed to hand me anything official until interview weekend.

Don't replace your prof recommendation!

Vanderbilt's program is newer and has fewer graduates, but all the professors there are top notch. Kris Preacher just got inducted into SMEP. They also have more funding for grad students than OSU. OSU is more established and larger, but they're blended in with behavior and decision making. I don't know about the prof quality. I would look into who's in SMEP.

I applied to USC and Vandy in quantitative where a few quant profs focus on BG. I've heard from Vandy, not from USC.

1) I don't know if this is true but there are a few quant psych programs jointly housed in education and psych. Vanderbilt comes to mind. 2) You might want to look at behavior and decision making programs: OSU and CMU have them. 3) Research experience can compensate. It depends on what the coursework is that's dragging you down. 4) Make sure you take Linear algebra. (I didn't. It wouldn't fit into my schedule. I suspect that this was one of my weaknesses).

I used citations without the full reference. I cited the longitudinal study I've been working with and papers the pois had written.