Quant_Liz_Lemon

I had the same problem. For some programs, I had to combine POIs in order for my interests to match up. For others, the fit was a smidge of a stretch. (Unsurprisingly, those stretch fits were my implicit rejections).

Perhaps we could stop inundating the thread with these PM requests? Another idea, instead of asking someone to PM you info, PM them and ask them for the info.

I have a section titled manuscripts in prep. I only include projects were the data has already been collected and analysis is in progress. In my SOP, I included future plans for my research. (I had to fly out to Harvard to pick up some primary source material for my longitudinal study...)

Interview Weekends ASU (Quant) : Feb 20-23 Davis (Quant): Feb 25ish Duke (Social): Jan 24-26 KU (Quant) : Jan 25 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 14-16 Yale (Social): January 27-28 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

He does in his unabridged CV. Here

I didn't even ask if I could take it... I just signed up and then showed up. I guess it helped that most of the psychology faculty think I'm a grad student. Who am I to correct them? But seriously, take stats classes. Mind you, I'm in quant, so I'm biased. However, some programs let you transfer in courses in or test out. Odds are that of all my grad classes, quant 1 will be the only thing I'm allowed to skip. And even this depends on the program.

I think you should include one. Profs hate reading sops. A cv is an abridged sop and is much less painful to read. I think that not including your cv will hurt your application.

I had to take time off for medical leave. I didn't address it in my SOP. I had a recommendor address it. He included ONE line addressing it. He didn't want to draw attention to it, but in case admin committees wanted an explanation, it was there.

1) I also wish I knew more of the literature. I came to psychology very recently and this has been a severe weakness to my application. 2) I wish I had taken the GRE again. My scores were good, but not great. Given that I'm going into quant, I should have retaken it because my verbal % was higher than my quant %. 3) I wish I had taken more classes on personality. 4) I wish that my economics major was a math major. We did a ton of math in econ, but not everyone knows that.

An RA is a research assistant. You help out in a lab run by someone else. Independent research is when you run your own project.

Hate to break it to you, but most senior thesises are based off of original independent research.

You already have a background in psych and have some quantitative skills. The market for quant psychologists is beautiful. See: http://www.apa.org/research/tools/quantitative/index.aspx And: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/education/05testers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

You should consider quantitative psychology.

My status didn't change for my programs.

Not as a peer reviewed article.

I disagree with Ginger. The email serves as more than a sneaky way to circumvent the app process. I used it to make sure that there were openings in my pois' labs. No lab openings means no interview, regardless of your application strength.

I was asked how long I planned on taking for my degree.

I concur. Research experience is really the most important thing. LORs will be good if you have done good research with your profs and don't have a serious personality disorder. If you have kickass research, no adcom will care if you have a low gpa [3, inf) gpa. When I asked one of my pois, what my odds were, he knew all my stats minus my gpa. All he asked was if my GPA was above a 3.5.

**Why aren't you studying (something from your other major)? My two majors are psych and econ; I was asked why I wasn't interested in behavioral economics or decision making. **Why didn't you use (flawed method) for your thesis? This was a sneaky question. My data violates assumptions of independence, so this interviewer was making sure that I wasn't just following my advisor's instructions.

Well, in my field there's are two types of interviews. Competitive and Recruitment. In competitive interviews, flights are not paid for and there are fewer spots than applicants. In recruitment interviews, flights are paid for and the acceptance is typically forthcoming as long as you don't reveal that you're crazy. This type of interview is more about wooing the applicant than determining who to admit.

Story of my life/winter break. (Well, except for the proverb...) I've been doing as much work as possible, just trying to distract myself. In the last 7 days or so, I've learned a new method (cox regression), consulted (using my old econ skills), cleaned a data set, and started reading Simonton's Introduction to Historiometry. I know that if I don't distract myself, I'll be insufferable. I'm a wee bit neurotic.

Official acceptances with funding and what not?

That could work because you have multiple work awards. You could also toss those in with academic honors and awards. My offer still stands to swap/share cvs. Instead of posting the link to my googledoc cv, just pm me for it.