Does anyone know anything about bumping your app from PhD to masters?
Do you mean how does one go about applying to a masters program at the same school where you've already put in your doc application? As in, you just want to forward your application from doctoral consideration to masters? If so I can tell you about my experience, if not, then disregard
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I wound up in similar situation my first time around--one interview, got placed on the wait-list, but then everyone from the first round of picks accepted their offers, so I was out of luck. The process was kind of unexpected: The program director called on April 15th and said that she was sorry to inform me that the applicant ahead of me on the short list had finally decided to accept their offer of admittance. In the next breath, she asked if I'd be interested in pursuing a masters instead. She had already forwarded all of the application stuff automatically when I had been wait-listed, and I had already been accepted prior to our conversation...so it was kind of like, "we can't give you a spot in the doc program, but you're already good to go if you want to do this instead."
Of course, the process is going to be different at every school. Many programs do not offer a terminal masters program, so you simply earn one in route to the PhD--students are not admitted with the intent of just getting their masters. Of those schools that do offer both, they'll often ask you to indicate on their app forms to check a box if you would like to be considered for a Masters program if you aren't accepted into the PhD program (This was how my school was, though I'm pretty sure that in my naiveness I had been so sure that I'd get in somewhere that I'd marked "no" for this question, and then they made me the offer anyway).
If you've kept copies of your app materials, I would check to see if these kinds of questions were asked, and, if so how you responded. In the event that they were and you said no, I'd guess it'd be a pretty quick fix to call admissions, say you would be interested in a masters after all, and then have them forward the materials to the appropriate people. If no such questions were asked, I would call the psych department secretary or the graduate school and ask what the procedure is...chances are they'll be able to take care of it for you and hopefully you won't have to pay yet another app fee, send your GRE scores again and all that fun stuff. In my experience, schools are pretty good about keeping application materials...I first applied two years ago, and three of the schools out of four that I re-applied to still had my transcripts and GREs on file so I did not have to pay to resend them...(one even waived the fee the second time around!) so I would guess with such a short period of time having passed, it'd be pretty easy to just send your file along.
Hope that helps, and hopefully you'll get some good news soon. Good luck!
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