psychenav Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 Hello all, This is my first post ever and am eager to hear back from folks here. I plan to app for a MS/PhD(preferable) in Cognitive neuroscience. The details of my profile are as follows. Before that, all of my experience till now are from India... Profile: GPA : 3.48 / 4 Psy subject GRE: 650 General GRE: Yet to take. Degree: - BA English Literature (Major) & Psychology (Minor) - 3 years - M.Sc Counseling Psychology with thesis, India - 2 years Research experience and achievements: - Gold medalist and University topper. - Dissertation in Health Psychology (6 months). Presented and won national level best scientific paper award for the same. - Internship in Counselling Psychology (6 months) - worked with cancer patients and their families Work Experience: - Academic Counselor for a nationally acclaimed training institute - 2 years - Student Counselor for a residential school - 6 months. One of my main worries is that my education and experience are not from within the US. I would greatly appreciate anyone sharing their experience on how universities value my education and experience. My dream apps are Stanford and Berkeley. I am open to any suggestions/comments from people here to understand what I need to do to even stand a chance for getting an admit. Thanks a lot !
Saik Posted February 22, 2011 Posted February 22, 2011 Hi, Welcome! Those credentials look pretty impressive for a MS program. I'm not familiar enough with PhD programs to say anything, but I would venture a guess and say you'll do well in finding a school for a master's. Good luck! P.S. And get on the GRE! Hello all, This is my first post ever and am eager to hear back from folks here. I plan to app for a MS/PhD(preferable) in Cognitive neuroscience. The details of my profile are as follows. Before that, all of my experience till now are from India... Profile: GPA : 3.48 / 4 Psy subject GRE: 650 General GRE: Yet to take. Degree: - BA English Literature (Major) & Psychology (Minor) - 3 years - M.Sc Counseling Psychology with thesis, India - 2 years Research experience and achievements: - Gold medalist and University topper. - Dissertation in Health Psychology (6 months). Presented and won national level best scientific paper award for the same. - Internship in Counselling Psychology (6 months) - worked with cancer patients and their families Work Experience: - Academic Counselor for a nationally acclaimed training institute - 2 years - Student Counselor for a residential school - 6 months. One of my main worries is that my education and experience are not from within the US. I would greatly appreciate anyone sharing their experience on how universities value my education and experience. My dream apps are Stanford and Berkeley. I am open to any suggestions/comments from people here to understand what I need to do to even stand a chance for getting an admit. Thanks a lot !
irreducible Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 I found these statistics from the University of Washington (which is very strong in the biological sciences) to be very useful: http://grad.washington.edu/about/statistics/admissions/admissions10.pdf Unfortunately it appears that the psychology phd program is the most difficult one to get into (at least at UW). Good luck!
ConventionalWisdumb Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 psychnave, Keep in mind the # of schools to which you apply counts greatly. Last year I applied to 4 schools with 2 interviews and got in nowhere. This year I applied to 17 schools...so far 1 admit and 3 other interviews. It all depends on stuff (profound, I know).
TheDude Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Numbers aside... a lot of this process was about luck. Saik 1
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