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I think I'm going to go insane from this radio silence. 

 

Most of my schools have really surprised me with how early they've been sending out interview requests... except one. Queens had the earliest deadline of all of them and still nothing (nor anything on the results page).

 

Has anyone here (clinical psych) heard back yet from a POI or the department at Queens?  :huh:

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Most of my schools have really surprised me with how early they've been sending out interview requests... except one. Queens had the earliest deadline of all of them and still nothing (nor anything on the results page).

 

Has anyone here (clinical psych) heard back yet from a POI or the department at Queens?  :huh:

I applied to the experimental stream, but I still haven't heard anything either  :(

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I think I'm going to go insane from this radio silence. 

 

When I was stressed out during the whole complete-and-submit-applications stage, I was warned by grad students that the TRULY stressful part of applying was the long months when you heard little to nothing back from the schools. I didn't believe it then, but I definitely know what they mean now! 

 

Has anybody applied to/heard anything from McGill? There has been nothing on the results page, so I am surprised that they are taking so long to contact students!

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No it's a PhD in clinical psych

I'm not in clinical and not familiar with the program generally, but the confusion might be coming from characteristic differences between American and Canadian programs. In Canada, you apply to MA/MSc programs even if you have the full intention of going through to get your PhD--usually your potential advisor has an idea of what you plan to do before you begin. In the states, MA/MSc and PhD are rolled into one, so you earn your Masters on the way to your PhD, but don't enroll in a separate Masters program. In the states, being accepted into a terminal Masters program is much different--this is when you don't have a POI.

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I'm not in clinical and not familiar with the program generally, but the confusion might be coming from characteristic differences between American and Canadian programs. In Canada, you apply to MA/MSc programs even if you have the full intention of going through to get your PhD--usually your potential advisor has an idea of what you plan to do before you begin. In the states, MA/MSc and PhD are rolled into one, so you earn your Masters on the way to your PhD, but don't enroll in a separate Masters program. In the states, being accepted into a terminal Masters program is much different--this is when you don't have a POI.

This isn't entirely true, there are big differences between US and canadian schools it's actually more dependent on the school you're applying to and the program. Most experimental programs you start in masters and have to apply to phd after. Some clinical programs are MA/PhD, uottawa is like that. Some are only PhD programs for clinical and some start in masters and you get bumped to phd after first year. Likewise same thing with POIs, some programs don't even require you to contact anyone prior to applying because you get accepted first than get matched with a supervisor later most aren't like that though. But most terminal masters programs, eg like professional ones like the M.ed you don't have a supervisor at all throughout the program but you can't apply to phd after with it.

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Got a phone interview invite from UNB clinical today for tomorrow afternoon. Earlier than I expected since deadline was just 2 weeks ago. 

Congrats FalcoNNN!!! It is a beautiful campus. Would you mind PMing your POI?

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This isn't entirely true, there are big differences between US and canadian schools it's actually more dependent on the school you're applying to and the program. Most experimental programs you start in masters and have to apply to phd after. Some clinical programs are MA/PhD, uottawa is like that. Some are only PhD programs for clinical and some start in masters and you get bumped to phd after first year. Likewise same thing with POIs, some programs don't even require you to contact anyone prior to applying because you get accepted first than get matched with a supervisor later most aren't like that though. But most terminal masters programs, eg like professional ones like the M.ed you don't have a supervisor at all throughout the program but you can't apply to phd after with it.

As I said, not clinical, so I don't have familiarity there. Most Canadian experimental programs are MA/MSc admission, then bump to PhD. Most American experimental programs are PhD programs and you receive an MA/MSc along the way. I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but this is a general trend I've observed that distinguishes American from Canadian graduate programs.

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Did anyone apply to experimental program at U of New Brunswick?

I am wondering if they conduct interviews at all. The interview process is mentioned in the description of the admissions criteria to the clinical stream, but not to the experimental...

Same for the Applied Social at Saskatchewan, nothing about interviews on the website (but for clinical they clearly state that intetviews are conducted).

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Wait so I applied to the program at UTSC in clinical psychology phd? That's not an MA

You might want to email them. They say right on their FAQ that they aren't accepting applications for direct entry to the PhD, and that it is an MA/PhD program.

https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/psych/clinical-faq#1b

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Who are these lucky souls who got invited to UOttawa interviews next week? Is this a program-wide thing (I mean the clinical stream), or is it individual profs who extend invitations?

 

Queen's and McGill also keep me mystified. Being competitive schools and all, you think they'd do things a bit faster… I emailed POIs there, and I presume/hope silence means they're still deciding.

 

If I'm ever becoming a program coordinator for a clinical psych program, I swear I will send people prompt rejections instead of just ignoring them. Crushed hopes are better than the waiting anxiety.

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Congratulations to the Ryerson acceptance!

 

Who are these lucky souls who got invited to UOttawa interviews next week? Is this a program-wide thing (I mean the clinical stream), or is it individual profs who extend invitations?

 

Queen's and McGill also keep me mystified. Being competitive schools and all, you think they'd do things a bit faster… I emailed POIs there, and I presume/hope silence means they're still deciding.

 

If I'm ever becoming a program coordinator for a clinical psych program, I swear I will send people prompt rejections instead of just ignoring them. Crushed hopes are better than the waiting anxiety.

 

 

Oh God, Ottawa is starting to make some noise! Now I'm even more nervous! 

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Who are these lucky souls who got invited to UOttawa interviews next week? Is this a program-wide thing (I mean the clinical stream), or is it individual profs who extend invitations?

 

Oh God, Ottawa is starting to make some noise! Now I'm even more nervous! 

 

I'm one of those with a uOttawa interview invitation - I can confirm that I was contacted by an individual POI and not some timeline-synchronized faculty process. As a newer faculty member there, this POI may have had a shorter stack of applications to sort through? (I dunno, that bit is speculation on my part.) Also I got the sense that faculty members freely set their own interview schedules. Considering that uOttawa ends up accepting (iirc) 15-20 new clinical students every year... I'm sure there must be plenty of forthcoming invites still in the works.

 

I also put multiple POIs in my application (lots of profs there do research in my field of interest) and I have my fingers crossed that I might still hear back from some of the other ones! I don't even really have a first, second, third choice of POIs in mind, so I would especially appreciate getting to interview with more than one of them.

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I'm one of those with a uOttawa interview invitation - I can confirm that I was contacted by an individual POI and not some timeline-synchronized faculty process. As a newer faculty member there, this POI may have had a shorter stack of applications to sort through? (I dunno, that bit is speculation on my part.) Also I got the sense that faculty members freely set their own interview schedules. Considering that uOttawa ends up accepting (iirc) 15-20 new clinical students every year... I'm sure there must be plenty of forthcoming invites still in the works.

 

I also put multiple POIs in my application (lots of profs there do research in my field of interest) and I have my fingers crossed that I might still hear back from some of the other ones! I don't even really have a first, second, third choice of POIs in mind, so I would especially appreciate getting to interview with more than one of them.

 

My POI at uOttawa said that the deadline for supervisors submit choices to the committee is February 18th. She also said that the commitee meets at the end of February to review applications but they have not set a date yet. She already interviewed me prior to the deadline of the application so I'm not worried about not getting an invite, but good luck to everyone else!  And also the interviews are individually set by the supervisor its not dept. wide or anything like that.

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If the Ryerson acceptance could share their POI, that would be great. I'm assuming all the acceptances for Ryerson probably went out for this round then., ?

 

I thought all the Ryerson acceptances had went out two weeks ago but maybe I'm wrong? I had an interview on Jan. 8th and then received an official offer on Jan. 15th. The offer letter I received states that "In total, over 350 applications were received for our graduate program, and only about 15 students are being admitted across the two MA fields (clinical psychology and psychological science)."

 

So I would imagine by now they have sent out all the offers and are waiting to hear back to see who accepts and who declines. 

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I thought all the Ryerson acceptances had went out two weeks ago but maybe I'm wrong? I had an interview on Jan. 8th and then received an official offer on Jan. 15th. The offer letter I received states that "In total, over 350 applications were received for our graduate program, and only about 15 students are being admitted across the two MA fields (clinical psychology and psychological science)."

 

So I would imagine by now they have sent out all the offers and are waiting to hear back to see who accepts and who declines. 

 

Psychological Science students always receive interview and acceptance offers well before Clinical students. A lot of clinical applicants interviewed after many Psych. Science students received their offers (me included), so the timelines are definitely different for both disciplines. 

 

Clinical students are starting to hear back now regarding their application status. It would appear that there have been a number of spots available for Clinical, but there wasn't a clear decision on which faculty member receives a clinical spot hence why the delay in us hearing. 

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I thought all the Ryerson acceptances had went out two weeks ago but maybe I'm wrong? I had an interview on Jan. 8th and then received an official offer on Jan. 15th. The offer letter I received states that "In total, over 350 applications were received for our graduate program, and only about 15 students are being admitted across the two MA fields (clinical psychology and psychological science)."

So I would imagine by now they have sent out all the offers and are waiting to hear back to see who accepts and who declines.

Yeah not sure what is happening. It's a process so I understand its a bit all over the place.

You received an offer and accepted? Would you be able to share poi, either here or PM? :)

Thanks

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