Fall 2020 Social/Personality Psychology PhD

[Luigileo]

Anyone got any news about Princeton & Yale? ?

[ybuw111]

24 minutes ago, Luigileo said:

Anyone got any news about Princeton & Yale? ?

I did an unofficial interview with Yale few days ago!

[Luigileo]

1 minute ago, ybuw111 said:

I did an unofficial interview with Yale few days ago!

Congrats! Do you know when the official department email will reach applicants? Also would you mind sharing who your POIs are? I dm you:)

[Reno]

Anyone got interview invitations from UC Davis yet? According to their website, invitations would be sent out on Dec 18, but I haven't heard anything from them yet. Wondering if that means rejection...

[HAC]

School: UCSB

Type: PhD

Date of invite: 12/17

Type of invite: Email from POI

Interview date(s): 2/7-2/8
 

School: UMass Amherst

Type: PhD

Date of invite: 12/17

Type of invite: Email from POI

Interview date(s):  1/31

Feel free to DM for POI!!

 

[HanClee]

10 hours ago, ybuw111 said:

I did an unofficial interview with Yale few days ago!

Ohh congrats! I’d love to know the poi too!

[imemine]

12 hours ago, Reno said:

Anyone got interview invitations from UC Davis yet? According to their website, invitations would be sent out on Dec 18, but I haven't heard anything from them yet. Wondering if that means rejection...

I just got an in-person interview invite for Davis today! Feel free to DM for POI

[stroobs&bloobs]

17 hours ago, ybuw111 said:

I did an unofficial interview with Yale few days ago!

That's awesome! Congrats! Do you mind DMing me the initials of your POI? 

[terrycherry]

Hey does anyone know how the interview process works for social psych? Like how do they filter people out, is it that you're competing against someone else for the same prof or are you just competing for a spot in the program?

In my mind I'm imagining that profs choose one student for interviews and then during the admissions meeting, they have less spots than students so they reject some. Is this ... correct?

 

 

[Vanilla Bean]

1 hour ago, terrycherry said:

Hey does anyone know how the interview process works for social psych? Like how do they filter people out, is it that you're competing against someone else for the same prof or are you just competing for a spot in the program?

In my mind I'm imagining that profs choose one student for interviews and then during the admissions meeting, they have less spots than students so they reject some. Is this ... correct?

 

 

You apply to work in a certain professor's lab, which is why you have to make sure the professor that you are interested in working with is taking new students for the application season that you are applying to start (and that the professor's research interests match yours). Then, from what I've seen, the professor could either choose to have a brief "unofficial" phone or Skype interview with you prior to inviting you to campus to interview, or you could also be invited to an on-campus interview without doing an unofficial preliminary interview. From my understanding, sometimes professors do preliminary interviews to weed people out that may not be the best research fit. So, whether you are competing against somebody else depends on if any others applied to work with that same professor, and whether that professor is considering other applicants other than yourself. So it's possible that you wouldn't be competing against anybody else, but you should still be making an effort to impress the whole department during any in-person interviews you get invited to, not just your POI. 

I hope this makes sense, and somebody please correct me if I'm wrong! From my understanding, this technically sums up the process, and you are likely to hear back from a professor that is interested in chatting with you anywhere between December and February. 

[sam0306]

1 hour ago, terrycherry said:

Hey does anyone know how the interview process works for social psych? Like how do they filter people out, is it that you're competing against someone else for the same prof or are you just competing for a spot in the program?

In my mind I'm imagining that profs choose one student for interviews and then during the admissions meeting, they have less spots than students so they reject some. Is this ... correct?

 

 

I think this is school dependent? I heard (and I might be wrong) that Stanford admits students into their department as a whole (competing for a spot in the program), but there's also schools like UCLA where each professor is responsible for inviting students they'd like to admit to their lab, and they just pick from those that they shortlist/invite. Hope this clarifies things! 

[Reno]

9 hours ago, imemine said:

I just got an in-person interview invite for Davis today! Feel free to DM for POI

I just got an email from them saying that I won't be getting an interview, so crossing Davis off my list now...Congrats to you!

Edited December 21, 2019 by Reno

[hippyresearcher]

I didn't see a thread for this, so I'm going to post here as this seems most fitting. Does anyone know if there are threads for experimental psychology programs? I'm awaiting an interview invite from OSU (OKState). Does anyone have potential information?

[socialneurofriend]

56 minutes ago, hippyresearcher said:

I didn't see a thread for this, so I'm going to post here as this seems most fitting. Does anyone know if there are threads for experimental psychology programs? I'm awaiting an interview invite from OSU (OKState). Does anyone have potential information?

I haven't seen any, and I'm applying to the (general non-clinical) psychology program at Brown.

I'll make one: Experimental Psychology/General Non-Clinical Psychology PhD Applicants Fall 2020

[scared_and_a_freud]

School: Tulane

Type: PhD

Date of invite: 12/23

Type of invite: Email from POI

Interview date(s): 2/9-2/10

DM me for POI!

[HanClee]

Just got an unofficial Skype interview invite from Stanford! Damn, didn't expect there to still be schools screening applicants.

[Luigileo]

1 hour ago, HanClee said:

Just got an unofficial Skype interview invite from Stanford! Damn, didn't expect there to still be schools screening applicants.

Congrats!!!!! What is the initials of your POI? Thanks!

[HanClee]

11 hours ago, Luigileo said:

Congrats!!!!! What is the initials of your POI? Thanks!

just messaged!

[stroobs&bloobs]

Has anyone heard anything from Stony Brook University? 

[ybuw111]

Do you think UCLA is done with finalizing interview invitations? If I haven't received any letters/ unofficial interview, does that mean i am just straight of rejected from the school? UCLA is so confusing with its protocol.

[sam0306]

20 hours ago, ybuw111 said:

Do you think UCLA is done with finalizing interview invitations? If I haven't received any letters/ unofficial interview, does that mean i am just straight of rejected from the school? UCLA is so confusing with its protocol.

I think UCLA tries to reach out/informal-interview early (before Winter break), at least for the social department. So they probably have already reached out to the shortlisted candidates at this point. 

[Vanilla Bean]

If the person that had an informal phone interview for Pittsburgh with AF sees this, can you message me please? Thank you! 

[kkkkkkkx]

Hello everyone! I am soooo anxious about the application! Although I know it's not helping but just keep tracking updates for people getting interviews and results lol. Would love to know whether anyone received formal interview from Dartmouth? 

[Red324]

Hello! Anyone heard from UGA, UMN, KU, FSU, UNCG, UH, Purdue, UI Urbana-Champaign, or UMD? Thank you.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Red324

[11082017]

7 hours ago, Red324 said:

Hello! Anyone heard from UGA, UMN, KU, FSU, UNCG, UH, Purdue, UI Urbana-Champaign, or UMD? Thank you.

Nothing from Illinois or Minnesota for me.