Hey, first time poster here. Lovely cafe you have; I'm particularly fond of the blue shag carpet you've decided to install.
I'm interested in applying to some master's programs in I/O for Fall 2013. For my girlfriend's sake, I plan to remain in Texas, or at least in the south - neither of which are anything too special, but that's neither here nor there.
Allow me to tell you what I have to show for myself, and if you are so inclined, feel free to tell me where you believe I stand as a potential applicant. Any additional advice I am offered will be received thoughtfully, and please offer it generously, because graduate school applications and admissions are among a great many things about which I am still hopelessly naïve. I will happily give any further information about myself that you may find useful, but for now I'll just list those things which seem to me to be most relevant.
I am a senior at Texas State University. It is my sixth college to attend; I have transferred repeatedly for various reasons, none of which involved my murdering another person. I major in both Psychology and Philosophy, with GPA's of 3.75 and 3.7 respectively. My overall GPA is 3.25. It is so woefully low in large part because of the gravity of the grades from my final semester at the University of Texas: 15 hours of F's. Just so you don't have to go and run the numbers yourselves, I will save you the time and inform you that the gravity of scores like those is unrelenting. That was about 3 years ago. Since then, I've been doing quite well, grade-wise. I did not know what I would be most interested in pursuing professionally or academically after college until about six months ago. I read a bit on I/O, and found that it seems to suit me more than I had initially assessed, and conversely, an internship experience through the school proved that clinical or health psychology is notably less gratifying than I had predicted it would be. It's a shame that the internship was in working with patients of traumatic brain injury rather than something related to industry, but perhaps you will let me know if it still has any potential to bolster my standing nevertheless. I will be assisting a professor with some research that will be tangentially relevant to but not characteristically 'I/O' this Fall. She expects it to be published with my name humbly upon a footnote somewhere before I must turn in my application. She, the professor who selected me for the internship, my supervisor during the internship, and a respectable Philosophy professor of whom I've grown very fond over this past year will write my letters of recommendations, and I believe they will sparkle.
I haven't taken the GRE yet. I just started studying yesterday. My "pre-study mock-test base-line" score was 1280, and I will surely improve it. Let us say that the GRE score I will have to show is whatever score is equal to '1350.' I won't score lower than '5' on the Analytical Writing section, so let us assume that 5 is my score.
Where do you think I fit into the distribution?