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thank you all! I LOVE THIS WEBSITE. hahahahhah tons of PhD student sharing experiences with rookies.

to rockandroll , 3point 14, lewin00, stereopticons, : TONS of thanks!! this is REALLY HELPFUL!!! I've made these 5 schools on my list ! Marked them down ! One more question! My parents are extremely traditional and by traditional , i mean they really care more about the "reputation"of the school, which is "whether it's famous or not" , rather than the actual quality of the psy programs they provided. Meanwhile, I do know that it's a matter about if i could get great training program, but i just don't want to let them down. this is another thing that bothers me. i know this question sounds silly, but please, give me some suggestions. What do you guys think?

Hi guys, I will be a senior in this upcoming Aug, but i'm so confused now... I don't know which way i should choose, or even which area i should choose. I'm interested in both clinical and I/O. i'm doing an internship in social services, it's about crisis hotline and children program from a domestic violence prevention program. I have a 3.68GPA, GRE not taken yet. Unfortunately , I have to pay the tuition by myself so I was thinking about either gap a year to gain more experience in research and better GPA to get in to a PhD program/ and more time to prepare, or just go ahead and try some master programs at the end of this year? (I do think master programs will give me a good time to relax and figure out what i want and interested in.) But here comes the question, does any of you guys know any M.A programs that provide fundings? Or even partial fellowships, assistantships? I've searched for tons of the schools , it turns out that most of the good schools only accept PhD student.... I know this is long post, but please give me some advise, any advises would be extremely helpful to me at this point....i am just so LOST. Appreciated your time !!!!!!!!!

it helps me a lot as well while reading these advs. thanks for the posting. i think i need to take sometime rethinking about which area i wana go for....maybe a year drop off would help.