Key to the Psychology world?

[LINLI]

Hello, everyone, glad to see all your posters here

I am here to seek for your help and advice for my psychology application.

My basic information:

1) Gradated from TOP university in China, BUT major not related to Psy.

2) Good acedemic record, GPA 3.6-3.7 and my graduation paper won University Dean's award...But no lab experience, no paper published

3) GRE: V560/Q780/AW 3

4) 500 hour psychology related training and have got psychological consultant certification from Chinese government

5) 6 years working experience after graduation, which might be my bright spot... 3 years in consumer research department in Fortune 500 company and 2 years in a top management consulting firm, with top performance… My job has a lot to do with consumer research, including design questionnaire, lead agency to execute and analyze data for conclusion, both qualitative and quantitative…But of course these work are still quite different from academic lab

My interest lies in Psychology but I am also willing to spread psychology knowledge and help people live better…The ideal direction for me is positive psychology, followed by social psy and I/O... I can accept MA or PHD

Do I have a good chance? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

[liszt85]

Hello, everyone, glad to see all your posters here

I am here to seek for your help and advice for my psychology application.

My basic information:

1) Gradated from TOP university in China, BUT major not related to Psy.

2) Good acedemic record, GPA 3.6-3.7 and my graduation paper won University Dean's award...But no lab experience, no paper published

3) GRE: V560/Q780/AW 3

4) 500 hour psychology related training and have got psychological consultant certification from Chinese government

5) 6 years working experience after graduation, which might be my bright spot... 3 years in consumer research department in Fortune 500 company and 2 years in a top management consulting firm, with top performance… My job has a lot to do with consumer research, including design questionnaire, lead agency to execute and analyze data for conclusion, both qualitative and quantitative…But of course these work are still quite different from academic lab

My interest lies in Psychology but I am also willing to spread psychology knowledge and help people live better…The ideal direction for me is positive psychology, followed by social psy and I/O... I can accept MA or PHD

Do I have a good chance? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

PhD admission committees look at relevant research experience and I think you may not have enough of that. So I would suggest you to apply to both MA/PhD programs AND MA programs and try your luck. I'm guessing you'll see more acceptances to MA programs and funding might be hard to come by as funding is more abundant for PhD programs. Good luck, I don't mean to discourage you in any way, just giving you my honest opinion!