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Harvard / Stanford / Yale - what would you choose? for PhD in Organizational Behavior / Theory (Macro)

I am wondering will a school frown down upon a 303 GRE score. I studied for a few months and the first time I took it I scored 300, 146 quant and 154 verbal with a 4.0 writing. I waited 21-days and retook again, scoring a total of 303, 148 quant, 155 verbal and I am still waiting on my writing score. I have my Master's in Industrial/Organizational Pyschology and I have three years of research experience. Please advise!

Hello guys, I recently applied to OB PhD programs and in the process of waiting for interviews/admission results. Haven't seen a forum page for OB applicants (let me know if there is already one!) and thought I'd just open up a new thread to share information. Is there anyone who already received interview offers or admission results (reject/admit)?

Hello Grad Cafe-ers! I'm starting a new thread for OB PhDs for the Fall 2012 application season! (the other thread seemed dead) I'm interested in seeing what the overall volume of people going for this is like, and which programs are hot! I remember using this site like crazy 2 years ago when I was applying for a Masters! So, I'm finishing that MS in I-O Psychology right now, and I'm going to apply to a couple of amazing schools because I happen to live very close to them. I had a VERY bad GRE in 2008 (before the changes - not that it made anything better), but I'm thinking with my completion of an 80 page thesis and about 2.5 years of various research and professional experience, I'll be able to compensate. Plus, I'm lucky that these schools have profs that have similar research interests to the work I've done for my thesis! So what does anyone think? I could really use the support, but I'm also pretty good at receiving constructive feedback - so feel free to let it rip... 2008 GRE: 960 TOTAL!!!!! (Ahhhhhh)...hey at least it got me into a Master's program! Low-tier BA in Psych: 3.85 GPA Mid-tier MS in I-O Psy: 3.86 GPA GREAT LETTERS: VP at Fortune 500 company (PhD), Associate Dean in College of Business, and my thesis advisor (I-O) 2.5 Years of paid research experience in academic and organizational settings + 1.5 years of independent research for thesis Schools: Berkeley Haas Berkeley Social-Personality Psych Stanford GSB Indiana University (safety)? I'm feeling especially nervous because these are some crazy schools. But I already started reaching out to some of these profs and surprisingly I've had some encouragement (I think they just tell everyone that stuff)! What do you all think? Looking forward to responses to my questions, but also to hear about everyone else's plans =D -Mike