Typical profile of an applicant who is accepted into graduate school?

[rhapsody24]

For those of you who have been accepted, what was your applicant profile like? What was your gpa, gre score? How many years of research experience did you have? What ranks were the schools that accepted you? Did you get into a masters or PhD? What field were you accepted into? I am planning on applying to I/O programs. Input from anyone who has been accepted would be helpful! Thank You!

[Arcadian]

GPA: 3.2 overall, 4.0 psychology

GRE: 1250 (680 q, 550 v)

1 year of research (and nothing to show for it except a decent letter of rec)

I was accepted at UT Dallas, a relatively small but up-and-coming research institution. It's ranked #2 in the UT system (behind Austin), its population and funding are both growing, and they are bringing in some great faculty from other universities. I feel like I kind of "sneaked in the back door" so to speak, because it will become increasingly more difficult to get into this program as they start receiving more applications. But it really is a great fit for me, as the department is focused on the precise research directions I want to pursue. They offer both PhD and terminal Master's degrees in several areas (the main divisions are developmental/social/cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, systems neuroscience, communication science, and speech-language-pathology/audiology). I am in the PhD program for cognitive neuroscience.

http://bbs.utdallas.edu/

Edited August 28, 2011 by Arcadian

[honkycat1]

For those of you who have been accepted, what was your applicant profile like?

What was your gpa 3.5,

gre score? Q:720 V:600

How many years of research experience did you have: I would say 2.5? first half year mostly doing RA stuff at a social personality lab. 2 years in a cognitive psychology lab. 1 talk presented at a undergrad cognitive science conference my junior year, 2 posters presented in my senior year (SJDM and Midwest CogSci Conference, all first authorship)

What ranks were the schools that accepted you? We don't really rank and my GPA sucks but I was voted the outstanding senior for my major at Michigan State Univ.

As far as I/O goes, I got into a pretty good phd program so I might be able to help you out