2010-2011 Internship Thread

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Intern2Be said:
Hi Sunstroke. The interview is from Yale University School of Medicine (1183). Hope that's good news 🙂 I also applied to UCSD, and have yet to hear anything from them.
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Do you mind if I ask what track you applied to? I am still waiting on UCSD as well!
Thank you!
 
Intern2Be said:
Hi Sunstroke. The interview is from Yale University School of Medicine (1183). Hope that's good news 🙂 I also applied to UCSD, and have yet to hear anything from them.
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Thanks for the reply! Do you mind if I ask what track you applied to?
Thanks!
 
I'm sorry, Scubapsy. One of my colleagues also got a rejection from them yesterday. Hang in there! Hope it goes better with the others!
 
Just got an interview at the Baltimore VA Consortium (VA Comprehensive track).
 
Has anyone heard from Emory and University of Washington?
 
Children's National has called with interview invitations today
 
SingingCow said:
Has anyone heard from Emory and University of Washington?
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I have not yet heard from Emory.

FYI - I got word from my practicum site that they just recently started reviewing apps, even though their deadline was early November. It's a northern midwest VA - anyone wants to know which site, send me a private message. I've also heard that there are a lot of procrastinators in this review process.
 
Hi all

Anyone hear from: West Haven VA, Western Psychiatric, Montefiore, Beth Israel (NY), or the CBT track at MGH yet?
 
Scubapsy - this is a very trying process. I went through it last year and it sucks even more the second time going through it.

Several encouraging words - There is still a little under two weeks to hear back from other sites. A lot can be learned from a little adversity. As much as it feels like it, these rejections are not a reflection on who we are as a person, but rather an outsider's subjective opinion of how our qualifications fit with their program. Good luck.
 
This week I and my colleagues have heard from Brown, Community Healthlink (in MA), Utah Neuropsych., Jackson Miss. Medical Center, & St. John's Child & Family Development Center (in Santa Monica).
 
JatPenn said:
Hi all

Anyone hear from: West Haven VA, Western Psychiatric, Montefiore, Beth Israel (NY), or the CBT track at MGH yet?
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Several of my colleagues have applied to the child track of Montefiore, and no one has heard anything yet.
 
my colleagues and I have heard from University of Minnesota Medical School, Mailman Center in Miami, the Hennepin County Medical Center, Children's national in DC, and Lexington VA.
 
why don't some of the sites that have offered interviews send out their rejections already? I know of a few that have not done so
 
Finally got my first interview! I was getting worried because it seemed like everyone was hearing from sites and I hadn't gotten any responses yet.

It's probably a long shot, but did anyone apply (or know anyone who applied) to the University of North Dakota's counseling center? Their notification deadline was 12/1 and I haven't heard anything from them yet and was just wondering.
 
Johnson42 said:
Scubapsy - this is a very trying process. I went through it last year and it sucks even more the second time going through it.

Several encouraging words - There is still a little under two weeks to hear back from other sites. A lot can be learned from a little adversity. As much as it feels like it, these rejections are not a reflection on who we are as a person, but rather an outsider's subjective opinion of how our qualifications fit with their program. Good luck.
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Sorry you have to go through this a second time, hope it works out for you this time around.

getting a Ph.D. ia about endurace...hang in there everyone!
 
Sunstroke2009 said:
Do you mind if I ask what track you applied to? I am still waiting on UCSD as well!
Thank you!
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No problem, I applied to this placement at Yale: Acute Inpatient Unit (APPIC #118324)

Good Luck! This part of the process is stressful!
 
uespm said:
why don't some of the sites that have offered interviews send out their rejections already? I know of a few that have not done so
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Take UF and MGH, for example. I think they sent out invitations before Thanksgiving!
 
SingingCow said:
Take UF and MGH, for example. I think they sent out invitations before Thanksgiving!
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I'd really like to know about the CBT track at MGH. Do you happen to know if they have sent out all of their invitations?

Thanks 🙂
 
Intern2Be said:
No problem, I applied to this placement at Yale: Acute Inpatient Unit (APPIC #118324)

Good Luck! This part of the process is stressful!
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Thanks, Intern2Be! I applied to the Hispanic Clinic track. Yeah, waiting on the responses has been very stressful. I would really just like to know from the sites and then start to mentally prepare for some of the invitations that I have received. Good luck as well!
 
edified1 said:
This week I and my colleagues have heard from Brown, Community Healthlink (in MA), Utah Neuropsych., Jackson Miss. Medical Center, & St. John's Child & Family Development Center (in Santa Monica).
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In regard to "Jackson Miss. Medical Center", do you know if that was the University of Mississippi Med Center?
 
lpt09 my colleagues and I have heard from University of Minnesota Medical School, Mailman Center in Miami, the Hennepin County Medical Center, Children's national in DC, and Lexington VA.
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Do you mind if I ask what kind of news your heard from Mailman Center in Miami- and when?
 
Hi all, I am still waiting on 10 sites (I've already received rejection emails from Boston Consortium, UCLA, the Portland VA, and the Center for Multicultural Studies). A 0% hit rate is not very comforting...:scared:. I am practicing ACT on myself (CBT doesn't work as well for me) in order to feel better about this whole process:help:. 😉

My classmates have all received several interview offers (Boston Consortium, McLean, Wisconsin, Brown, UCLA, Stanford, Children's National Medical Center in DC, Mailman, LSU, NYU, UNC, and several others that I can't remember... mostly child sites).

I heard that UCSD is still turning in their rankings, so we should hear within a week (a rather long time when waiting is torture). Any news from UIC, Western Psych, or the Palo Alto VA?

Hang in there, everyone!
 
Johnson42 said:
.... these rejections are...an outsider's subjective opinion of how our qualifications fit with their program. Good luck.
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Or the name of the reputable adviser who wrote your letters. Frankly, I saw plenty of less qualified candidates match last year who came from big name advisers. When sites are interviewing 70-150+ people for 5 or 6 slots its just not humanly possible to fairly and equally consider how each candidate fits with the program. Let's face it, in many cases the best man for the job doesn't make the cut.
 
manko7 said:
Or the name of the reputable adviser who wrote your letters. Frankly, I saw plenty of less qualified candidates match last year who came from big name advisers. When sites are interviewing 70-150+ people for 5 or 6 slots its just not humanly possible to fairly and equally consider how each candidate fits with the program. Let's face it, in many cases the best man for the job doesn't make the cut.
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I was just talking to someone today about how it seems as though a big component to all of this is not necessarily "what you know, but WHO you know..." The variables are so vast who knows *why* applicants get rejected. Take for example your application vs. another application who has a LOR from someone in the field who used to work for/graduated from the site you're applying to. Situations like that could be how the person next to you gets chosen instead of you. Doesn't mean you weren't qualified or didn't have a stellar application ... the other person just simply knew someone. Good luck to you all.
 
TenaciousGirl said:
I was just talking to someone today about how it seems as though a big component to all of this is not necessarily "what you know, but WHO you know..." The variables are so vast who knows *why* applicants get rejected. Take for example your application vs. another application who has a LOR from someone in the field who used to work for/graduated from the site you're applying to. Situations like that could be how the person next to you gets chosen instead of you. Doesn't mean you weren't qualified or didn't have a stellar application ... the other person just simply knew someone. Good luck to you all.
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Indeed. I still remember last year the head of the department callously saying to me "Well Manko7, we certainly didn't expect you to not match!" Of course his student matched- with a program whose director was the former student of our director. This student had seen fewer patients than myself and had even fewer reputable pubs. Many sites purport to find the candidate with the best "fit."

"Fit." I have never heard a compelling elaboration of that phrase.

At one point in history African Americans and hispanics didn't "fit" in this culture. Women didn't "fit" in politics. I always chuckle silently to myself when I hear this phrase. As if I would prefer professional unemployment for a year (which is what non-match is) to a place where I ostensibly didn't "fit." A person with a good record can certainly "fit" for a year. He or she may not be completely satisfied, but a person with a record of success can make opportunities happen.

I understand folks want to be optimistic about this process. But the internship now has a non-match rate that is tantamount to the unemployment rate of the Great Depression during the worst years of that sordid era. I see nothing beneficial or redeeming about this process. I'm tired of interviewing with faculty and students who had less experience, less research impact, and less diversity of training when they were at my level. They have climbed the ladder of success and pulled it up behind them.
 
Scarycat said:
Hi all, I am still waiting on 10 sites (I've already received rejection emails from Boston Consortium, UCLA, the Portland VA, and the Center for Multicultural Studies). A 0% hit rate is not very comforting...:scared:. I am practicing ACT on myself (CBT doesn't work as well for me) in order to feel better about this whole process:help:. 😉

My classmates have all received several interview offers (Boston Consortium, McLean, Wisconsin, Brown, UCLA, Stanford, Children's National Medical Center in DC, Mailman, LSU, NYU, UNC, and several others that I can't remember... mostly child sites).

I heard that UCSD is still turning in their rankings, so we should hear within a week (a rather long time when waiting is torture). Any news from UIC, Western Psych, or the Palo Alto VA?

Hang in there, everyone!
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UNC has sent out invites/rejections already? I haven't heard anything yet.
 
More updates... a couple of my classmates have received interviews at Kaiser San Diego and Didi Hirsch (in the LA area)... I'm still waiting on both of those sites. *sigh*
 
I am waiting for Kaiser as well...
Found this earlier, so I thought about posting it here for those who are registered with the APPIC intern-network. The first part may not apply anymore though:

Everyone,

Before everyone on this list has a heart attack because one person has
reported hearing back from a site, let me state categorically that it
is EXTREMELY EARLY FOR ANYONE TO BE HEARING BACK ON THEIR APPLICATIONS
OR GETTING OFFERS FOR INTERVIEWS! Many application deadlines haven't
even passed yet, much less have sites had the opportunity to review
materials and contact applicants to set up interviews.

So, if you haven't received any notification yet, all that means is
that you are one of 3,500 other applicants who also have not yet
received any communication from sites and who feel like they are the
only one in North America who hasn't heard anything.

Remember that each APPIC-member site is required to list in their
Directory information the date by which they have committed to
notifying every applicant as to whether or not they are being
interviewed. Those are the dates that you should attend to, and you
should not count on hearing anything prior to that date. APPIC
recommends, but does NOT require, a December 15 notification date,
which some sites use and others don't. Check the Directory to be sure.

If you want to make yourself really anxious for no good reason, you
can: (a) wonder how each site notifies applicants (alphabetically?
by date the application was received? by astrological sign?, etc.)
and how you will fit in that process, (b) start worrying two weeks
before the "interview notification date" in the Directory about why
you haven't heard anything and then assume it must be bad news, or (c)
assume that if a classmate hears from a site before you do, it means
you're toast. All of these are tried and true methods of generating
gobs of anxiety while waiting to hear from sites.

Seriously, go by the dates in the Directory, and assume you'll hear at
11:59pm on those dates and not a moment earlier. Will some notify you
days earlier? Yes, but some won't. One year, I sent out my
notifications the evening of my interview notification date, and I was
surprised how many applicants told me that they had assumed they
weren't getting an interview because they hadn't heard anything from me.

In the relatively infrequent event that you don't hear from a site by
the end of that day, you should call or e-mail the site the next day
to inquire about your status.

Greg
 
Greg posts that every year.....thankfully.

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My first match I didn't match. I only applied to top tier placements, I received quite a few interviews, and I thought all but one went really well. My top placement seemed like a perfect "fit"....which is why not matching dumbfounded me. I didn't understand how that could happen. Students that didn't have nearly the stats I did, received less interviews than I did (at lower-tiered placements), somehow found their way to getting matched, and yet....there I was. The worst was running into professors who were excited to hear where I was going (because they knew some of the places I had interviewed), and then having to tell them I didn't match.

I was miserable for a couple of days, and then grinded through a day of Clearing House, only to decline my offers because they just weren't a good fit. I didn't want to talk to anyone about it, but I happened to start talking with a professor (former DCT at a top site) who's opinion I really valued, and he explained the usual breakdown at his former site: "50% of the people applying get cut because they just aren't competitive as other applicants. 30% are competitive, but they don't really match up with what we training. The last 20%...they are all great candidates, but they still have to narrow it down for interviews." He said post-interview there are usually 20 people could all do well at the site, but they need to still rank them somehow.

I've spoken to other DCTs, and they sometimes have to rank based on who would likely rank them high. It is a tough game, because sites want to get good people in, but they can lose out on other solid candidates if they shoot for the moon and miss.

Every site has a different set of criteria, so it is hard to say what gets some people picked over others. Sometimes it is a LOR, other times it is a good set of pubs, while other times it is some kind of speciality training that would meet a need at the internship site (ex. DBT focus, with a good research fit too).

Everyone just needs to hang in there, as it is a long road.
 
JatPenn said:
Hi all

Anyone hear from: West Haven VA, Western Psychiatric, Montefiore, Beth Israel (NY), or the CBT track at MGH yet?
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I'm still waiting to hear from West Haven, Western Psych, and MGH (CBT track) as well (along with 8 others!). I know at least some letters for the Behavioral Med track at MGH went out, and I know of one person who has heard (positively) from West Haven, though I believe it was for the Health Psychology track (I applied to the General track). I've heard from 4 places, but they've all been mentioned in previous threads.

Are sites required to send rejection letters, or do some just operate by not getting in contact with you if they don't want to interview you?
 
How are you all handling interview offers that you are not 100% sure you want to take?

Here is the deal- I applied to 17 sites and only heard back from 1 so far -with an interview offer. The site that made the offer is not exactly my top choice (though I would be happy to be there). Given my finances, it is likely that I can only afford to go on about 5 interviews (because I will be flying to every single interview).

-How in the world do I tactfully avoid responding to the site for 11 days regarding the interview offer (it says let them know at my earliest convenience) without sending the impression that I am not interested?

-MANY of my sites have interview/open houses on Jan 6 - 8! Is this common? How are you all handling this?
 
childpsych11 said:
How are you all handling interview offers that you are not 100% sure you want to take?

Here is the deal- I applied to 17 sites and only heard back from 1 so far -with an interview offer. The site that made the offer is not exactly my top choice (though I would be happy to be there). Given my finances, it is likely that I can only afford to go on about 5 interviews (because I will be flying to every single interview).

-How in the world do I tactfully avoid responding to the site for 11 days regarding the interview offer (it says let them know at my earliest convenience) without sending the impression that I am not interested?

-MANY of my sites have interview/open houses on Jan 6 - 8! Is this common? How are you all handling this?
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1. You can always inquire about phone interviews at sites you may not be able to fly to because of budget restrictions. Some sites will be fine with it, and other will not.

2. 11 days....hmm, that's not good. I'm not sure if 11 days have gone by, but you need to contact them ASAP to at least schedule a phone interview.

3. Some sites will offer optional open houses, which can be helpful for checking out the facility, but I'm not sure how helpful they are in getting a spot. It could also be a regional thing, as some places will be interviewing a lot of locals, and an open house can give people a chance to see the facility.
 
Colleagues and I have heard from: UAB, OU, Brown, Salem Virginia VA, Univ of Mississippi/Jackson, Vanderbilt Counseling, Tampa VA, Bay Pines VA, Rush, Cincinnati VA... and that's all I can remember. 😀

And we, like so many people on the forum, seem to be going crazy from the waiting! :scared:
 
going crazy and having a very difficult time concentrating/getting any work done!
 
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