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I am a US citizen but I study in another country where I grew up in (I lived in the US for a few years in elementary and went to US for exchange during my junior year in college). My native language is not English, but my English is fairly fluent. My keywords of interest would be "Aging, Family, positive psychology (resilience, well-being, PTG), Health (chronic illness, stress, coping), Emotion and Culture." Thus, I am planning to apply for clinical, health and social psychology that are related to my interest (although i would say clinical psychology as my primary interest). I was wondering what are my chances in getting into these programs?

1. University: I would say the top university in the country i grew up in. Currently 5th year. Psychology major.

2. GRE: V-640/800; Q- 800/800; AWA-4.0

3. GPA: Cumulative 3.925/ Major-a bit higher than cumulative gpa/ UCSD (exchange for a year during junior year)-3.788

4. Research Experience: Currently conducting an individual undergraduate research with grant from National Science Council (but still under process, no results or publication) and participated in weekly lab meetings.

5. Clinical Experience: volunteering in elder care center (but not for very long)

6. Recommendation letter (chair from our dept, my advisor for my lab work, still looking for the third one.)

What are my chances?

I am asking because most of my professors in our dept. tell me that in the past, nearly no one from our dept got into clinical psychology phd program directly (is it because they are international?). Those who successfully got into clinical psychology phds go for a master of something-related first. They tell me stories of those who have excellent grades, graduated from clinical psychology masters in our dept, have much research and clinical experience-- never got into clinical psychology phd programs directly, let alone I am only an undergrad with relatively few research and clinical experience. Sometimes it is a bit discouraging...So i want to ask whether I have any chances of getting into clinical psychology programs such as USC, UCSD/SDSU, UW, UCB, ASU? Affective science in stanford? or like health psychology programs in UCLA? aging related field in Michigan? I just don't know what's the fittest school for me. Having a very very hard time selecting schools. Am I aiming too high?

Thank you for your comments in advance! :)

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