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Rejected from the University of Western Ontario, by e-mail from my POI this morning. Reason: Another applicant was a better fit in terms of research interests.
 
Sorry Western. This sounded like such a sure thing. Did that 'other applicant' already accept or is your POI just hoping? Maybe there is still a shot there... Try to keep positive with this. It is Canada eh, the land of last minute acceptances.

Maybe you're meant to take a year off to be with your dad. Have you heard back from the other couple schools that you applied to?
 
Thanks for replying. The e-mail didn't say whether the other applicant had accepted, but I assume so. Either way, this was a rejection; I definitely got the impression that the decision was final. It's disappointing, because I thought we had a pretty good match.

I haven't heard from the other two schools yet, but I know they've both at least started making offers to other students-- so I'm kind of resigning myself to applying again next year. Still, I can't quite kill that little shred of hope, you know? Your screen name seems pretty apt right about now.
 
Has anyone heard (or know of someone who has heard) from York, UBC, or Concordia?
 
LaLuna123 said:
Has anyone heard (or know of someone who has heard) from York, UBC, or Concordia?
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I didn't apply to York or UBC, but I did to Concordia. Haven't heard a word from them and my status on their website is still 'pending'. Anyone else apply there?

Anyone heard from Windsor, Manitoba or Regina?
 
My status was finally updated on the McGill admissions website to say that my application is being reviewed (before it just said that there were documents pending), so maybe something will actually happen soon...😕
 
I called a few schools, Concordia is sending out decisions on the 8th of March, York and McGill should have your POI call you within the next few weeks if they're interested. York has called a few people already (they do phone interviews). UBC doesn't do interviews and should send out letters soon...
 
LaLuna123 said:
I called a few schools, Concordia is sending out decisions on the 8th of March, York and McGill should have your POI call you within the next few weeks if they're interested. York has called a few people already (they do phone interviews). UBC doesn't do interviews and should send out letters soon...
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Thanks for calling them!

Guess I'll have to be on edge next week waiting for Concordia...

Thank god this will all be over soon one way or another.
 
WaitingKills said:
Thanks for calling them!

Guess I'll have to be on edge next week waiting for Concordia...

Thank god this will all be over soon one way or another.
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I think the secretary said that they would be sending letters AND emails, so we may find out on Thursday!

Also, I forgot to say that at McGill they said that they may or may not interview, it's up to the POI.
 
I just spoke to my POI at York (via email) and unfortunately she let me know that I did not make the short-list of candidates.

Interestingly though, she also said that due to the cap on admissions, they were not able to accept ANY outside Phd applicants to the program this year.

I hope that those of you that have applied will still take this news with a grain of salt until you have heard back from your programs/POI's directly. It's possible I could have misinterpreted my POI's message.

Good luck to everyone!
 
Ok. Called Concordia and decisions were made yesterday for acceptances and waitlists. I'm a big old reject. But if you call - she will tell.

Called Manitoba too and the grad secretary said that letters should be going out sometime next week.

Good luck everyone, I hope we here of some acceptances here.
 
WaitingKills said:
Ok. Called Concordia and decisions were made yesterday for acceptances and waitlists. I'm a big old reject. But if you call - she will tell.

Called Manitoba too and the grad secretary said that letters should be going out sometime next week.

Good luck everyone, I hope we here of some acceptances here.
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U of M's grad secretary scares the living daylights out of me. lol
 
Wow, York isn't taking any outside applicants to the PhD program?

That's pretty crappy, you think this is the sort of thing they might know in advance and discourage people from applying?

Although I suppose that, coupled with the fact that their funding is terrible, their application process is poorly designed, and all my interactions with faculty/staff there have resulted in their being at least rude, if not downright mean, I should be glad I'm not going there!

Not that I'm bitter about this whole process or anything😉
 
RayneeDeigh said:
U of M's grad secretary scares the living daylights out of me. lol
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Hehehe. She does seem quite....unfriendly, doesn't she. I've had to talk to her a couple times and always the same thing.
 
WaitingKills said:
Hehehe. She does seem quite....unfriendly, doesn't she. I've had to talk to her a couple times and always the same thing.
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I had to deal with her to hand in my SSHRC application back in the fall. I was in a good mood that day so I walked halfway into the office and was friendly. Unfortunately that meant that I was also more than a few feet from the door when she decided to lecture me about how going to the US for grad school is a bad idea. That ruined my day. haha. Now whenever I see her I just duck into a hallway.
 
Has anyone heard anything?

I'm thinking the Canadian schools are still kind of quiet...
 
Denied - Windsor (called secretary)

Denied - Regina (spoke with POI - aren't taking any ph.d student's this year)

? Manitoba - Grad secretary wouldn't say anything other that letters were mailed last friday.

Does anyone here have good news? (Congrats again RayneeDeigh)
 
WaitingKills said:
Denied - Windsor (called secretary)

Denied - Regina (spoke with POI - aren't taking any ph.d student's this year)

? Manitoba - Grad secretary wouldn't say anything other that letters were mailed last friday.

Does anyone here have good news? (Congrats again RayneeDeigh)
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Thanks 🙂

That's weird about Regina. I know that they had a lot of financial trouble a few years back... they might still be recovering.

I'm really anxious to hear from UBC.

If you get into Manitoba I shall give you the grand tour! lol
 
tkj said:
btw, one of my profs went to U of Saskatchewan! I think he mentioned that they tend to emphasize the clinical training more than the research, but then again, my memory sucks. anyway, he's a really cool dude, so I'm sure there must be some really awesome people there!!!
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Thanks, that's good to know!
 
Still waiting to hear from a few BC schools...it's driving me crazy! I'm putting all of my eggs in the Canadian basket...I'm feeling really positive about it! C'mon, Canada!
 
What's up with McGill??? I have heard nothing from them whatsoever! 😱 Have they made decisions?
 
LadyInRed said:
What's up with McGill??? I have heard nothing from them whatsoever! 😱 Have they made decisions?
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I emailed my POI at McGill and he had already interviewed his candidates and made offers. I was unfortunately not shortlisted....
 
A rejection letter came for me today from Manitoba. 🙁
 
WaitingKills said:
A rejection letter came for me today from Manitoba. 🙁
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Oh I'm sorry 🙁

Our psych building doesn't have any working printers anyway, you'd hate it. 🙂
 
RayneeDeigh said:
Oh I'm sorry 🙁

Our psych building doesn't have any working printers anyway, you'd hate it. 🙂
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😀 hehehe. That's great to hear! I was also thinking that I would probably end up blowing up the graduate secretaries office because she is so bitter/b*itchy sounding.

Maybe it's for the best. I can work and make money for a year before going to school again....
 
WaitingKills said:
😀 hehehe. That's great to hear! I was also thinking that I would probably end up blowing up the graduate secretaries office because she is so bitter/b*itchy sounding.

Maybe it's for the best. I can work and make money for a year before going to school again....
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She really should be studied for science. I swear, I wanna catch her napping one day and tape a smiley face to her head.

Things work out the way they're meant to. I'll likely be applying again next year too so we can do this song and dance all over again together. lol
 
<--Canadian (U of Manitoba)

WTF is up with McGill?! Their counseling program was my emergency, last-chance backup, and I didn't even get an interview!

Well, screw them, I'm moving to Florida!

Why did the U of M Admin. Ass. say that going to a US school was a bad idea? That's just dumb. Bling bling for me when I go.
 
JockNerd said:
Why did the U of M Admin. Ass. say that going to a US school was a bad idea? That's just dumb. Bling bling for me when I go.
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Ha! Sorry that made me laugh. Bling bling? 🙄 (I'm trying to control the 'How old are you' comment!)

Yep, probably because it's super expensive! Bling bling the other way... money out of your pockets hun. Even if your program is funded, you have to pay for health insurance (I was quoted $1500 US/year at one school I applied to), and usually student fees. Combine that with crappy exchange rates and higher living costs (on average), it's way cheaper to study here.

Good luck when you go down there. Just keep in mind that most psychologists in the states are paid quite equivilantly to ones up here, and only one has made Dr. Phil status.

ETA: Oh ya. I don't know about McGill, but I do know that the majority of Canadian programs don't interview.
 
WaitingKills said:
Ha! Sorry that made me laugh. Bling bling? 🙄 (I'm trying to control the 'How old are you' comment!)

Yep, probably because it's super expensive! Bling bling the other way... money out of your pockets hun. Even if your program is funded, you have to pay for health insurance (I was quoted $1500 US/year at one school I applied to), and usually student fees. Combine that with crappy exchange rates and higher living costs (on average), it's way cheaper to study here.

Good luck when you go down there. Just keep in mind that most psychologists in the states are paid quite equivilantly to ones up here, and only one has made Dr. Phil status.

ETA: Oh ya. I don't know about McGill, but I do know that the majority of Canadian programs don't interview.
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I'm 23. Just being lighthearted. 😛

PAY?? Why would someone pay to do their PhD? Programs should only admit as many students as they can completely fund. It's not hard to narrow your application focus to only schools that do that. I'm funded every year at UF (for more $$ than I've made in any of the last 3 years). My health plan costs are $500 a year. I'll pay the same rent down there as I did on my second apartment in Winnipeg. Many Canadians simply don't know the facts about applying to grad schools in the US.

Why would exchange rates matter? You're going to school in the US, and your stipend/assistanceship/fellowship is in US$.
 
JockNerd said:
I'm 23. Just being lighthearted. 😛

PAY?? Why would someone pay to do their PhD? Programs should only admit as many students as they can completely fund. It's not hard to narrow your application focus to only schools that do that. I'm funded every year at UF (for more $$ than I've made in any of the last 3 years). My health plan costs are $500 a year. I'll pay the same rent down there as I did on my second apartment in Winnipeg. Many Canadians simply don't know the facts about applying to grad schools in the US.

Why would exchange rates matter? You're going to school in the US, and your stipend/assistanceship/fellowship is in US$.
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Yes, but we can't all have your GRE scores (I figured out who you are, your personality translates freakishly well in typing). So it actually IS hard to narrow the application focus, for a lot of people.

Sometimes people don't get fully funded, that's just the way it is. It's not that Canadians don't know the facts, it's that you're in a rare great position and the rest of us may not be.

Exchange rates matter if you have to pay for any part of your tuition. Let's say regular tuition is $15,000 a year somewhere, then Canadians need to have about $20,000 because of exchange. They only don't matter for you or anyone else who is fully funded. Although, your rent will be in USD I would assume.
 
That is sort of weird that you knew who I am...

My position isn't THAT great, in fairness. I made the cumulative GPA cutoff for getting into honours this year by .02. A B instead of a B+ in a course last year could've been the end of me. No publications, no RA exprience this year (my advisor isn't even in psych). Fit just trumps all. I was able to apply to programs where someone did exactly what I wanted to do, and my first cull was to remove any school that didn't give 100% funding (there is NO way I could go to grad school without funding).

(and e-mail me, Raynee, I can't figure out who you are!)
 
Got my official rejection from Western Ontario today in the mail.
 
WaitingKills said:
Got my official rejection from Western Ontario today in the mail.
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Me too. Not that mine wasn't expected, but... *sigh*.

Canadian schools seem slower to mail the rejections. I'm very sure I've been rejected from Waterloo and 99.99% sure I've been rejected from York, but I've yet to hear anything official from either school.
 
Waterloo and York really need to get their acts together. Given their admissions process I'm actually kind of glad neither school took me since I'm starting to have serious doubts about the quality of the schools if they can't even organize a coherent admissions process.

Waterloo apparently has completely filled their class, so for those of you who haven't heard by now, sorry but you didn't get in. I found this out by emailing my POI. Their website still says my application is being processed but apparently I was rejected quite a long time ago. I'll be interested to see if they even bother sending a letter.

As for York, they haven't said anything to me either. I tried contacting them two more times, and at this point I'm convinced every person I've spoken to on the staff has a personality disorder. I wonder if they let their clients answer phones for free therapy? Seriously....all my phone calls have been funnelled through a chain of probably 5-6 of the most miserable people I have come into contact with anywhere in the application process. That doesn't speak well for the school. So my fellow York rejectees, be happy😉
 
Ollie123 said:
Waterloo and York really need to get their acts together. Given their admissions process I'm actually kind of glad neither school took me since I'm starting to have serious doubts about the quality of the schools if they can't even organize a coherent admissions process.

Waterloo apparently has completely filled their class, so for those of you who haven't heard by now, sorry but you didn't get in. I found this out by emailing my POI. Their website still says my application is being processed but apparently I was rejected quite a long time ago. I'll be interested to see if they even bother sending a letter.

As for York, they haven't said anything to me either. I tried contacting them two more times, and at this point I'm convinced every person I've spoken to on the staff has a personality disorder. I wonder if they let their clients answer phones for free therapy? Seriously....all my phone calls have been funnelled through a chain of probably 5-6 of the most miserable people I have come into contact with anywhere in the application process. That doesn't speak well for the school. So my fellow York rejectees, be happy😉
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That's very weird, but similar to my experiences with UBC. All three are excellent schools... I just wish they'd get their acts together.
 
Hope you weren't offended by what I said, I'm just very frustrated by the process. I'd heard Waterloo DID have a good program, that's why I applied, I've just found their admissions process to be quite poorly designed compared to the other schools. Unfortunately, given that is the only personal interaction I've had with the school at this point, it does reflect poorly on the school, at least with me. The grad school process is very similar to job applications, and its in the best interest of the school/employer to make the process as good as such a stressful process can be for the students/job applicants. Otherwise, they will be less inclined to accept any offers that are made. Then again this could just be a personal preference issue, maybe someone slightly less obsessive about the process would not be bothered as much by not knowing😉

If it was more a matter of me being "wait listed" I would have no problem with it, but I think its common courtesy to inform me of that. At this point, every school has at least attempted to inform me of my status (even if it was "we don't know yet) at LEAST a week ago (with 9 out of 10 having done so substantially earlier). My bigger concern is that it was NOT even a matter of me still being considered, I have been formally rejected, they just have not sent notice or updated anything online. I was never even interviewed. Furthermore, according to my POI, the entire class is filled. Wouldn't it make sense to at least reject those who were not granted interviews at this point? I was clearly not a competitive candidate there. Its how every other university I applied to handles the process.

I understand the idea of schools not wanting to reject people that still have a reasonable chance of being accepted. However I consider holding on to all applications until very late in the process, and not even attempting to inform students of where they stand to be bordering on rude. I realize things like that happen, but when 11/13 schools were able to inform me of where I stood (be it acceptance, waitlist, rejection, or even just writing to tell me I am still in limbo) MUCH sooner in the process, I can't help but feel like Waterloo is doing something wrong. Even if they had just sent out a bulk email 2 weeks ago saying "We have made offers, but in case any of these students turn down our offer, you will still be considered", that would be fine. 2 other schools I applied to do this, and I have no problem with it.
 
Ahhh, now I understand.

Perhaps stating it reflected on the quality of the program was overextending a bit. I don't doubt that Waterloo offers great classes, productive labs, and good clinical training. What the admissions process has me wondering about is the more administrative garbage that unfortunately most people end up having to deal with at some point. Be it a missed thesis deadline, a schedule change, a request for medical leave, having to get approval to take outside classes/practica. Things that aren't usually taken into consideration as far as the overall "quality" of a program but can really make or break someones experience there.

Those are the sorts of things that the application process at Waterloo would have me concerned about. The sort of things that might not matter so much in the overall view of the program, but can make day to day life absolutely miserable if those sorts of systems are not well organized, well communicated, and have the students best interests at heart. Maybe Waterloo does all those things well anyways, but their application process certainly made me doubt it.
 
UVic? UVic anyone? I'm dying to know if anyone else has heard from them...I can't bring myself to contact them. :scared:
 
tkj said:
Duckygirl - I don't know how far along they are right now, but I know one of my friends interviewed there / received her offer about 2 weeks ago (and is visiting this week to check out the campus). But that's just one person though, so I'm not sure if they are finished yet.
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Thanks, TKJ...I was under the impression that UVic didn't even interview. I've know they've rejected some people, but not me. I probably on their bloody waitlist. Crap, crap, crap. Thanks so much for the info! I wish it was me checking out their campus right now........
 
If anyone is still looking to start a program in the fall, Ryerson has just announced a new MA in clinical psychology and is looking for students! Their PhD program will then be launched in fall 2009. I hear it will be a great program. Take a look at the file I attached for further information. I'd be interested to know if anyone pursues this - PM me if you get a chance. Good luck!
 

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Absolutely, seems like an amazing option! I would imagine that the competition wouldn't be too fierce this round either (even aside from not needing the GREs).
 
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