Generic_Applicant Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Anyone applying to UWO? Their gpa cut off is lower and acceptance rate seems slightly higher than uoft and such (because of less people applying perhaps). Less competitive school in some way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smith2016 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Anyone applied to the University of Arkansas or the University of Mississippi for the fall 2016? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FacelessMage Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 2 hours ago, Syedahum said: Anyone applying to UWO? Their gpa cut off is lower and acceptance rate seems slightly higher than uoft and such (because of less people applying perhaps). Less competitive school in some way? I may be applying there again (I applied last year, but my application was incomplete due to a late reference letter). I've heard that it's fairly competitive. I think smaller programs in general (like places such as UNB, Regina, etc) that only get 50-60 applications per year just do so because they're just small, and maybe not as well known. UWO does get a lot of applications though, for a Canadian program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeeeeletedpeacetgc Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Anyone dreading this period of uncertainty from now until sometime in January as much as I am? I find myself constantly reviewing my (already submitted) applications, re-reading my CV, SoPs... Searching for more information about previous applicants/current students in these programs.. Gees. Edited December 7, 2015 by pkc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych_Law Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 17 minutes ago, pkc said: Anyone dreading this period of uncertainty from now until sometime in January as much as I am? I find myself constantly reviewing my (already submitted) applications, re-reading my CV, SoPs... Searching for more information about previous applicants/current students in these programs.. Gees. I'm avoiding reading over my SoPs and CV so to not come across any errors that I can't fix anyway. But I'm definitely checking my email way more often than I need to and going over the qualifications of students at the programs all the time. Hopefully I can just set this aside as the holidays come closer and not focus on it. deeeeeletedpeacetgc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKYU Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 32 minutes ago, pkc said: Anyone dreading this period of uncertainty from now until sometime in January as much as I am? I find myself constantly reviewing my (already submitted) applications, re-reading my CV, SoPs... Searching for more information about previous applicants/current students in these programs.. Gees. Me! Also checking gradcafe religiously... deeeeeletedpeacetgc and VentureIntoNothingness 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VentureIntoNothingness Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 1 hour ago, TKYU said: Me! Also checking gradcafe religiously... Second you guys. I, in addition, am obsessed with emailing/calling programs as if I am chasing them romantically. (I sort of am...) Psych_Law 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piagetsky Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 It may change once the deadlines have officially passed and I know that programs are actually reviewing applications, but I am strangely calm right now.... Psych_Law and VentureIntoNothingness 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinderellacomplex Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 1st round, applying to 10 Ph.D. and 5 M.A. Ph.D.: Kent State St. John's Mercer Med School U Minn Tulsa Suffolk Missouri - St. Louis GWU Harvard U South Dakota M.A. / M.S.: UCCS (Colorado Springs) Boston U Towson UNC Wilmington McGill IPN (Integrated Program in Neuroscience) ClinicalApplicant07 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePianist Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) 1 hour ago, cinderellacomplex said: 1st round, applying to 10 Ph.D. and 5 M.A. Holy cow! I'm barely holding it together applying for 8 doctoral programs...are you managing okay with your 15 applications? Edited December 8, 2015 by JoePianist Piagetsky and Psych_Law 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClinicalApplicant07 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 1 hour ago, cinderellacomplex said: 1st round, applying to 10 Ph.D. and 5 M.A. Ph.D.: Kent State St. John's Mercer Med School U Minn Tulsa Suffolk Missouri - St. Louis GWU Harvard U South Dakota M.A. / M.S.: UCCS (Colorado Springs) Boston U Towson UNC Wilmington McGill IPN (Integrated Program in Neuroscience) For the record, I'm getting my masters at UNCW right now and they are getting a PhD program starting next year. It's a wonderful program and I have nothing but great things to say about it! Good luck! JoePianist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic_Applicant Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Haha and I'm applying to 3 (maybe even 2) programs.. Oh boy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych_Law Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 20 hours ago, cinderellacomplex said: 1st round, applying to 10 Ph.D. and 5 M.A. Ph.D.: Kent State St. John's Mercer Med School U Minn Tulsa Suffolk Missouri - St. Louis GWU Harvard U South Dakota M.A. / M.S.: UCCS (Colorado Springs) Boston U Towson UNC Wilmington McGill IPN (Integrated Program in Neuroscience) So what's the close total of how much it has costed to do the application process for all of these schools? My budget has been tight with just 6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePianist Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 18 hours ago, Becks_Psych said: So what's the close total of how much it has costed to do the application process for all of these schools? My budget has been tight with just 6! As far the total cost for my 8 applications: Official GRE score report: $27 per school x 8 Official transcripts: $10 per school x 8 Application Fee: $50 estimated average per school x 8 Overall, I'm spending roughly $696 on applications this year I could have used this money to pay a month's worth of rent, or a Playstation 4 WITH a 40" HDTV Psych_Law 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piagetsky Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 2 hours ago, JoePianist said: As far the total cost for my 8 applications: Official GRE score report: $27 per school x 8 Official transcripts: $10 per school x 8 Application Fee: $50 estimated average per school x 8 Overall, I'm spending roughly $696 on applications this year I could have used this money to pay a month's worth of rent, or a Playstation 4 WITH a 40" HDTV $50 application fee?! The fee at one school I applied to was $220 CAD, and all the rest of them were $100! Now, granted, I did benefit from the CAD-USD exchange rate, but still.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FacelessMage Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 2 hours ago, JoePianist said: As far the total cost for my 8 applications: Official GRE score report: $27 per school x 8 Official transcripts: $10 per school x 8 Application Fee: $50 estimated average per school x 8 Overall, I'm spending roughly $696 on applications this year I could have used this money to pay a month's worth of rent, or a Playstation 4 WITH a 40" HDTV You have to pay for transcripts? That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artsy16 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 $50, wow! Mine were on average $75. I had to pay $35-$40 for each school for my transcripts, because I had multiple transcripts from multiple schools (home university, study abroad, etc). My total costs of applying to 7 schools was about $750-$800. Definitely ruined my semester savings plan VentureIntoNothingness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piagetsky Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 On 12/7/2015 at 4:09 PM, VentureIntoNothingness said: Second you guys. I, in addition, am obsessed with emailing/calling programs as if I am chasing them romantically. (I sort of am...) I keep telling myself there is no need in checking status multiple times a day for deadlines that haven't even officially passed yet. (Ask me how that's working out.) FeelTheBern and deeeeeletedpeacetgc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smith2016 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Is someone having problem with the UCLA's application? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wootar Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 I think we can all relate to this! deeeeeletedpeacetgc, acole1177, Piagetsky and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy_may Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) On November 17, 2015 at 1:17 AM, FacelessMage said: I'm applying to work with John Edens. His research is pretty similar to what I'm doing now. Looks like we are all applying to Edens haha! I applied to work with him last year too... He said that he gets 80-100 applications for his lab per year so I'm not super hopeful. This is my second year applying... I am hoping to get into a program that has some sort of Forensic Psychology relevance, as I want to be doing Forensic Assessments. I am currently enrolled in George Washington's Forensic Psychology Masters. So if any of you want to talk about that program I would be glad to speak with you! I applied to 12 schools last year and interviewed at 3... I was the alternate at one school but ultimately didn't get in. This year I applied to 10... Sam Houston, Baylor, Texas A&M, University of Houston, Drexel, Fordham, George Mason, Alabama, John Jay, and Emory. Most of these programs have a forensic psych concentration or have a professor that is interested in psychological assessment. Good luck to everyone in this niche of forensic psych applying! Its really hard to get into... I'm not expecting much out of my applications this year as I decided in October to reapply so I didn't have time to retake my GREs. Don't get disheartened if you don't receive interviews/acceptances your first year! Most of us have to go through this process multiple times as there are so many applications.. Last year Drexel had 600 applications for 7 spots. But I also am happy that I had this year in between UG and reapplying... Just looking at the differences in my applications from last year, I learned so much and was able to accumulate a lot of life experience! Good luck everyone! I know it is a really stressful time! Last year I started getting notified in January for interviews if that helps at all for a sense of a time line! Edited December 12, 2015 by daisy_may Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClinicalApplicant07 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 School Name: University of Georgia Date Interview Invite Received: 12/14/14 Degree: PhDType: ClinicalNotified via:EmailFrom:Administrative assistantInterview Date: 1/25 Additional Info: Social event the night before This school had an early application due date so don't start worrying quite yet if you aren't hearing from places. Most schools don't let you know until early January! Good luck everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applicant38 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 @ClinicalApplicant07 Congrats! I am also applying to UGA. I didn't realize they would start sending invites so early! Would you mind letting us know your POI? Do you know if there is one round of emails or do invites trickle out? I'm anxious now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FacelessMage Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I can't take the suspense of waiting! This is going to be a long Christmas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClinicalApplicant07 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 2 hours ago, Applicant38 said: @ClinicalApplicant07 Congrats! I am also applying to UGA. I didn't realize they would start sending invites so early! Would you mind letting us know your POI? Do you know if there is one round of emails or do invites trickle out? I'm anxious now! Thank you very much! Don't be anxious! I just received an email from Auburn University that their professors each have a different method of contacting students and would be sending invites over the next month and a half, so there is a large chance that UGA is similar and will still be sending out invites. My invite was personalized to me, and not a group message if that makes you feel any better. Don't get yourself too worked up because this is still very early. I know it can be scary but we have awhile before we should start really getting nervous. UGA had an early deadline, but most schools don't send out invites until the first and second week of January. I don't know if it would be appropriate to mention my POI publicly, but I will share if you message me privately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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