Recruitment Weekend

[MakeYourself]

I've been invited to a 2 day 'recruitment weekend' for developmental psychology. I've heard that in clinical psych often your odds of getting in at an interview weekend can be anywhere from 3:1 to 5:1. I'm wondering if you all think this will be the same for developmental? As far as I know, it's not solely a deveopmental recruit, but rather a recruit weekend for the whole department of psychology. It's also not so much of an interview weekend, there are a couple blocks reserved for meeting faculty but I don't think they will be formal interviews. It seems to me that the odds for developmental should be me more in my favour. Does anyone else have any experience with non-clinical recruitments?

Thanks!

[svh]

I've been invited to a 2 day 'recruitment weekend' for developmental psychology. I've heard that in clinical psych often your odds of getting in at an interview weekend can be anywhere from 3:1 to 5:1. I'm wondering if you all think this will be the same for developmental? As far as I know, it's not solely a deveopmental recruit, but rather a recruit weekend for the whole department of psychology. It's also not so much of an interview weekend, there are a couple blocks reserved for meeting faculty but I don't think they will be formal interviews. It seems to me that the odds for developmental should be me more in my favour. Does anyone else have any experience with non-clinical recruitments?

Thanks!

I think it totally depends on the program. I was just at a social psych "interview" weekend, but the impression I got was that it was more of a recruitment than an interview weekend. I've only been to one so far, so I don't know this can be generalized.

[watson]

In our department, all the areas except clinical pretty much accept 1/2 of the students invited to interview, with the others put on a waitlist (unless you do something to totally put the faculty or grad students off). Sometimes if we're really impressed or looking for a bigger class it goes as high as 3/4. For example, this year we interviewed 8 for social, accepted 4 off the bat, put 2 on a waitlist with likely admission if we get a decline, and 2 on a waitlist with very low chances of admission (since we figure we'll get at least 2-3 out of the first 2 groups so we won't have to fill spots). 2 years ago though, we interviewed 8 and made 6 initial offers--5 ended up accepting so the next year we made fewer offers.

[Behavioral]

For Marketing, all-day interviews were not golden tickets to admission. One of the programs that invited me out accepted 2/10 interviewees; another 2/7; and another 1/5. These also doubled as recruitment weekends in that they were the only times applicants got to visit the schools on the departments' dimes.

I had two formal recruitment weekends (post-acceptance), which were scheduled around faculty 1:1s, grad student lunches/drinks, etc., which were really nice.

[MakeYourself]

Thanks for the responses everyone! I guess I won't really know how many people they will be accepting until I go there.