kittyoverthemoon Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 My senior year of undergrad, I "tacked on" a psychology minor because it was a potential career supplement and extreme interest of mine. I took Intro Behavioral Neuroscience, Abnormal Psych, Cognitive Psych, and Developmental Psych all in one semester and loved it. I received A's in all classes except for a B+ (just barely missed the mark) in Cognitive. I had the idea before the semester started that I might pursue Psychology further in graduate school, so I volunteered in a Music Cognition lab at my university that semester as well and it is extremely in line with what I want to study. I only have that one semester of research experience, however, but employment experience in applied behavior analysis therapy. My cumulative final undergrad GPA is 3.496 and I haven't taken the GRE yet as I'm a fresh graduate and am taking this year to plan where I want to go from here. I've done very well in biology and chemistry classes that I've taken, but they are level I and II of intro courses, so not much depth of knowledge from that area. If I continue in the lab that I'm in now for the next year, might I have a chance at getting into some pretty good programs for cognitive psychology/neuroscience or behavioral neuroscience? My specific interests range from auditory neuroscience/sound studies as related to music and speech acquisition in the autistic brain and music as autism therapy, sound production and perception of/by singers and those neural underpinnings, neural correlates of tinnitus, and sound production as communication in animal behaviours. I'm also interested in sensory systems as related to animal socialization behaviors. I've been searching all over the world for labs or faculty with interests related to mine. I'm hoping that I'm making the right decision. Thanks for any input!
MarineBluePsy Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 With your background it is possible, but it'd be a good idea for you to look at the prerequisites required by the programs you wish to apply to. All of them will list specific classes you must have completed (or perhaps are taking concurrently) when you apply. Most likely they'll all be classes you can take for a fraction of the cost at a community college.
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