Fall 2020 Developmental Psychology PhD

[cupidcello]

Hi all!

Three cheers for December 1st, everyone!  I've been waiting for today as 2/3 schools I've applied to have a due date of today (the last one is Jan 1st).  I suppose I'm also waiting for December 2nd as I understand that several schools have different time deadlines on the 1st (i.e. midnight, 17:00, 23:59 etc.). I'm also waiting for just one more recommendation letter to one school (That school's portal was down when they were ready to submit. Sigh. One would imagine that this wouldn't happen during such an important time.).

Anyway, I might post tomorrow to cheer everyone again.  Hope everyone is hanging in there alright!  I'm actually working on some thank-you notes at the moment. 'Tis the season to be thankful, right?

[emotional]

Wooo!! got all my apps in!! Feels amazing to have done everything on my end and now its in the admission committee's and universe's hands 

[cupidcello]

2 hours ago, emotional said:

Wooo!! got all my apps in!! Feels amazing to have done everything on my end and now its in the admission committee's and universe's hands 

Congratulations!!

[devpsych2020]

20 hours ago, goldenxpenguins said:

Hi! Congratulations on submitting all of your applications! I am also applying to Michigan and I did not see anywhere on the application to upload unofficial GRE score reports either. I think that may only apply to applicants who had to take the Psychology GRE Subject Test. If you look here: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/prospective-students/graduate/application-procedures.html and scroll down to GRE, then "Clinical Science Area", it says:

GRE Subject Test: You will be asked to submit your overall score and percentile rank and upload a PDF copy of your score report into the application. If you do not have your score when you submit your application, please email your score report, your name, and UMID number to psych.saa@umich.edu on or before December 1st. This applies to the subject test ONLY. 

Hope this helps! 

 

Thanks so much for clarifying this! I am relieved now.

I got some questions about what next:

1. Does anyone know when you start hearing about the decision? I am referring to the...bad news...rejections. This is my first time so Idk much yet but some of my friends who are applying for the 2nd or 3rd time said that some schools announced the rejection in a week or two. (I am assuming via application status?)

 

2. How common are waitlists in psych phds? The only school I know for sure does it is U Minnesota. 

[emotional]

On 12/1/2019 at 8:25 PM, devpsych2020 said:

Thanks so much for clarifying this! I am relieved now.

I got some questions about what next:

1. Does anyone know when you start hearing about the decision? I am referring to the...bad news...rejections. This is my first time so Idk much yet but some of my friends who are applying for the 2nd or 3rd time said that some schools announced the rejection in a week or two. (I am assuming via application status?)

 

2. How common are waitlists in psych phds? The only school I know for sure does it is U Minnesota. 

1. I think this is highly dependent by each program. I've seen that some programs send out invites as early as December and others sending out invites closer to the end of February/beginning of March. I am assuming that formal rejections would go out closer to March and April, once offers are made and accepted.

2. Not entirely sure about this, I don't think programs openly advertise this information. You can look at the grad cafe result page to see if people have been waitlisted for the programs you applied to.

 

I hope this helps!

[goldenxpenguins]

@emotional Were you the person that posted on the results page about getting an interview invite for UC Riverside? 

[emotional]

@goldenxpenguins nope, haven't heard from any programs yet

[goldenxpenguins]

@emotional Neither have I and now I see why people say not to check the results page lol. I was already anxious and now I'm even more anxious. 

[emotional]

@goldenxpenguins lol, im surprised that interview invites are already out when the app was due only 3 days ago... but! we definitely have a long while left to go, keeping that positivity up!

[goldenxpenguins]

@emotional That's exactly what I was thinking lol and it's hard to stay positive, but I will try! 

[psychochef]

I'm the person who posted an interview invite to UC-Riverside...feel free to PM me for POI.

[devpsych2020]

On 12/4/2019 at 12:57 PM, emotional said:

1. I think this is highly dependent by each program. I've seen that some programs send out invites as early as December and others sending out invites closer to the end of February/beginning of March. I am assuming that formal rejections would go out closer to March and April, once offers are made and accepted.

2. Not entirely sure about this, I don't think programs openly advertise this information. You can look at the grad cafe result page to see if people have been waitlisted for the programs you applied to.

 

I hope this helps!

Thanks! I will certainly check out the results page. 

I noticed clinical psych and else are starting to hear back from schools. Hope we developmental applicants update about the news as well as things progress haha.

[SocialPsych2018]

Hi! I primarily applied to social psych programs, but also a few social/cog/dev profs. I was the person with the dev cog NYU skype interview. Feel free to DM me if you want to know POI!

[emotional]

Got my first informal skype interview invite! Ahhh!

[cupidcello]

1 hour ago, emotional said:

Got my first informal skype interview invite! Ahhh!

Spectacular!!!

[goldenxpenguins]

1 hour ago, emotional said:

Got my first informal skype interview invite! Ahhh!

Congratulations! Would you mind telling me your POI initials or can I just DM you? 

[cupidcello]

Hi!  I got a request for an informal interview (scheduled for next week)!  (I do assume that this is a good thing--I hope it is.)  Woo-hoo!  Please send a direct message for any further information--if interested.  I'm just...wow!! Yay! 

[emotional]

25 minutes ago, cupidcello said:

Hi!  I got a request for an informal interview (scheduled for next week)!  (I do assume that this is a good thing--I hope it is.)  Woo-hoo!  Please send a direct message for any further information--if interested.  I'm just...wow!! Yay! 

Congratulations! Definitely good news!! 

[justacigar]

Did anyone here apply to UMN's developmental psychopathology and clinical science program?

I recently found out they don't even conduct interviews before acceptance/rejection! For some reason that makes me even more nervous? Like you don't have a chance to prove yourself in an interview, its all just on paper. Yikes! 

[emotional]

1 hour ago, justacigar said:

Did anyone here apply to UMN's developmental psychopathology and clinical science program?

I recently found out they don't even conduct interviews before acceptance/rejection! For some reason that makes me even more nervous? Like you don't have a chance to prove yourself in an interview, its all just on paper. Yikes! 

I did apply to UMN but to their development psychology program. I did have in-depth correspondence with 3 of the faculty I listed in my application. Two of them did emphasize how they do their application process very differently at UMN's Institute of Child Development. They emphasized the community-based model that the department takes, and your application is reviewed by the entire faculty, not just the faculty who you indicated. They highlighted that students are admitted to the department, and the faculty as a whole decide who to admit. Apparently, in the first year, you have the opportunity to "shop around" the different labs and get a better sense of which lab is better fit for your research interests. 

I can see how not factoring an interview in the admission process can be concerning, but I also wonder if it's related to how their program is structured. They possibly just review the materials in the application to ensure that every applicant are being compared on the same materials. Since the faculty as a whole decides who to let in, then individual interviews with individual faculty members may not hold  a lot of weight. But then again, this kind of begs the question of why not have an interview weekend with the whole department before sending out offers... might be related to funding, not sure.. 

[justacigar]

1 hour ago, emotional said:

I did apply to UMN but to their development psychology program. I did have in-depth correspondence with 3 of the faculty I listed in my application. Two of them did emphasize how they do their application process very differently at UMN's Institute of Child Development. They emphasized the community-based model that the department takes, and your application is reviewed by the entire faculty, not just the faculty who you indicated. They highlighted that students are admitted to the department, and the faculty as a whole decide who to admit. Apparently, in the first year, you have the opportunity to "shop around" the different labs and get a better sense of which lab is better fit for your research interests. 

I can see how not factoring an interview in the admission process can be concerning, but I also wonder if it's related to how their program is structured. They possibly just review the materials in the application to ensure that every applicant are being compared on the same materials. Since the faculty as a whole decides who to let in, then individual interviews with individual faculty members may not hold  a lot of weight. But then again, this kind of begs the question of why not have an interview weekend with the whole department before sending out offers... might be related to funding, not sure.. 

Thats good to know! I did have a phone conversation with one of the faculty there, though we didn't have time to talk about admissions which is a bummer. I also know that program is going to be uber competitive. Just nervous having to wait for acceptance or rejection for another month or two lol 

[wildmonkey]

Out of curiosity, I wonder what % of applicants get an informal Skype interview. And out of those, what % wind up getting a formal invite. I'm sure it depends on the program and POI, but just curious what the approximate average is. 

[cupidcello]

On 12/11/2019 at 4:53 PM, emotional said:

Congratulations! Definitely good news!! 

My apologies--I never replied!!  Thank you!!

[fake187]

Someone just posted a skype interview with Notre Dame, and they mentioned that there wouldn't be in-person interviews. Do you know if this is only for Dev Psych applicants, or do you think it would also apply to cog psych applicants?

[devpsych2020]

If you posted about hearing back from Rochester, would you mind PMing me mentor's initials? I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance!