Im nervous I dont have enough to get into grad school

[fieldhockey09]

I am a junior in undergrad right now and here are my stats: 

I am a double major in Psychology and Criminal Justice. 

I am apart of the honors program at my school. 

I am involved in psychology club, criminal justice club, psi chi (honors psychology department club), and alpha sigma phi (honors criminal justice club). 

I am involved in a lab at my school and have done previous lab work at another college for a summer. 

I am planning on doing two internships my senior year (next year). 

My gpa overall is a 3.56 and my psychology major gpa is a 3.73 and my criminal justice major gpa is a 3.67. 

My biggest concern is the GRE and the program I am applying for (Clinical psychology with a concentration in forensic psychology, law psychology, or forensic psychology: depending on the program). 

I would love to hear your acceptances to schools (grad-if you have any) and what your application stats looked like. 

Thank you :) just a worried college student here lol 

[psychfemme]

I'm in my senior year in undergrad and I am currently applying to clinical phd programs. I'm a project coordinator in a clinical law psychology lab currently, and the thing my lab looks for the most in grad students is relevant research experience. Two out of three of the grad students in the lab got in right out of undergrad. All of the grad students had some form of law internship and at least 2 years of research experience. 

My gpa is similar, I have 3 years of research experience (2 labs), am doing an honors thesis, and I'm also heavily involved in the psych club at my university and with psi chi. The grad students in my lab seem fairly confident I will at least get interviews this application round; I'm not so sure, but I really don't know lol. 

My biggest piece of advice is to try to present a poster at a conference/complete an honors thesis if you can! 

Not sure if this helps or not! 

[PsycUndergrad]

What kind of research experience do you have? Most successful applicants will have 2+ years of solid experience (I.e., not just data entry or data collection) with some poster presentations. Publications are even better. Honestly, most people don’t go to grad school straight from undergrad and instead work in full-time research positions for a year or two to bulk up their CV.
 

Clubs, clinical experience, etc. don’t matter much (if at all) for grad applications. I would recommend focusing on getting as much high quality research experience as possible, refining your research interests (fit with advisor is key!), and studying for the GRE. 
 

I’m a 3rd year clinical PhD student, for reference.

[fieldhockey09]

21 hours ago, PsycUndergrad said:

What kind of research experience do you have? Most successful applicants will have 2+ years of solid experience (I.e., not just data entry or data collection) with some poster presentations. Publications are even better. Honestly, most people don’t go to grad school straight from undergrad and instead work in full-time research positions for a year or two to bulk up their CV.
 

Clubs, clinical experience, etc. don’t matter much (if at all) for grad applications. I would recommend focusing on getting as much high quality research experience as possible, refining your research interests (fit with advisor is key!), and studying for the GRE. 
 

I’m a 3rd year clinical PhD student, for reference.

Summer before my sophomore year I was a research assistant as a drug addictions rodent lab and did rat injections, inhalations, and conducted a few rounds of experiments that were used in the data. This semester I joined a lab with my advisor and I am working on two projects within her lab. I am running participants for one and doing the blood analysis/centrifuges for another. I am expected to present a poster presentation on at least one of those projects. I also am running an experiment through psych club and am expected to go to Boston for our poster presentation as well. Unfortunately, at my school we dont have a forensic psychology lab here and I am in the processes of contacting a director at another school to see if I can get into one of the labs there.    

[fieldhockey09]

21 hours ago, psychfemme said:

I'm in my senior year in undergrad and I am currently applying to clinical phd programs. I'm a project coordinator in a clinical law psychology lab currently, and the thing my lab looks for the most in grad students is relevant research experience. Two out of three of the grad students in the lab got in right out of undergrad. All of the grad students had some form of law internship and at least 2 years of research experience. 

My gpa is similar, I have 3 years of research experience (2 labs), am doing an honors thesis, and I'm also heavily involved in the psych club at my university and with psi chi. The grad students in my lab seem fairly confident I will at least get interviews this application round; I'm not so sure, but I really don't know lol. 

My biggest piece of advice is to try to present a poster at a conference/complete an honors thesis if you can! 

Not sure if this helps or not! 

Unfortunately, we dont have a clinical law psychology lab at my school but I am in the process of contacting a director at another school to see if I am able to participate in that lab. The one professor that teaches forensic psychology hasn't taught the class in 4 semesters and is currently not conducting any research. Thank you! Im projected to present one maybe two posters next semester at a local conference and a conference in Boston as well. What schools are you applying too? Best of luck!