2012 APPIC Internship Application Thread

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decar1 said:
Yeah, I hadn't heard about places doing that either. Applied last year and got rejection one day from a site followed by invite the next (saying I had been at the top of the alternate list). It puts you in a very weird position as you feel that they preferred a number of other applicants to you. Or at least that was how I felt. But they may not even remember that come interview time.
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I'd do your best not to let something like that bother you. I think most selection committees would be the first to tell you that their pre-interview selection metrics/criteria aren't perfect, and that qualified applicants unfortunately quite often go uninvited.

If they're inviting you for an interview (after waitlisting or even initially "rejecting" your app), they're open to the idea of you heading there for internship; they generally want to meet you just as much as you want to meet them. Just think of it as your opportunity to shine in person.
 
Hey everyone,

My DCT sent this out from the APPIC intern-network. Basically, Greg says don't freak out if you aren't hearing things. Personally, this did not make me feel much better, but I hope it will maybe assuage some of your anxiety!



APPIC INTERN-NETWORK
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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 VERY EARLY FOR ANYONE TO BE HEARING BACK ON THEIR APPLICATIONS OR GETTING OFFERS FOR INTERVIEWS! Some 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 4,000 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. The purpose of that requirement is so you can know what to expect and when to expect it. 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, and (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 "interview notification date," you should call or e-mail the site the next morning to inquire about your status.

Greg
 
so I received a notification 11/21 for an interview at University of Chicago instructing us to send in our interview date preferences (had 4 to choose from), and that they would get back to us to "confirm the date via e-mail within the next couple of days." Well, I sent off my preference that afternoon, and it's now been 8 days and I haven't heard back- is it time to re-email? I don't want to bug, but I also don't want to miss a slot due to email weirdness.
 
Sites where an interview has been offered
*just added*
11/26 Asheville VA Medical Center - phone
11/17 Baruch College - email
11/21 Bay Pines VA - email *11/22 invite*
11/22 Baylor College of Medicine (Child/Family, Adult/Adolescent, Geropsych track) - email
11/15 Bellevue-NYU (Child and Adolescent) and (Adult Track)- email
11/23 Berea Children's Home and Family Services - email
11/16 Beth Israel/ MMHC - email
11/23 Boston University Medical Campus/The Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology - phone *11/29 phone interview invite*
11/28 Brown (Obesity, child clinical, neuro, peds, adult clinical, health psych/bmed, dementia) - email
11/21 Casa Pacifica - email *11/15 email as well*
11/22 Central Arkansas VA (neuropsych) - email
11/21 Cherokee Health Systems - email
11/14 Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - email
11/19 Children's Hospital of Michigan
11/15 Children's Mercy - phone
11/22 Children's National Medical Center - phone
11/14 Cincinnati Children's Hospital (BM track) - phone
11/22 Cincinnati VA - email
11/23 Columbia presbyterian adult track
11/15 Community Healthlink Youth and Family Services (clinical child)
11/18 Dartmouth (child track) - email
11/28 Dartmouth, neuropsych track - email
11/18 Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services (adult)
11/22 Didi Hirsch Child and Family track - email
11/21 Duke - Child Clinical Track - email
11/22 Duke University Medical Center - (CBT) and (Health) - email
11/29 Dupont Children' Hospital - email
11/25 Durham VA - email
11/25 Edmonton Clinical Psychology Consortium Residency - email
11/23 Emory (neuropsychology track) - email
11/21 Federal Bureau of Prisons USP Hazelton, FCI Morgantown - email
11/17 Geisinger Medical Center (BMed) - phone
11/29 Geisinger (child track) - Email
11/21 Georgia Health Sciences University/Charlie Norwood VA - phone
11/14 Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium
11/22 Greystone Park Psychiatric Center
11/18 Interfaith Hospital
11/09 James Madison University - phone interview invite *11/28*
11/17 Kings County Hospital Child Track - personal email
11/23 King's County Adult Track - e-mail
11/28 Lexington VA - phone
11/10 Long Island Jewish (neuropsych) - email
11/29 LIJ child track
11/28 LSU health science center - adult track - emai
11/28 Lucile Packard (Stanford) - email (re-notification; email sent last week)
11/23 Mailman Center for Child Development (University of Miami) - email
11/28 MGH Child Track - phone
11/29 MGH Adult track - phone and Bmed - email
11/23 May Institute - email
11/29 McLean - email
11/18 MUSC Charleston Consortium (Trauma) - email *11/21 emailed invite for the Trauma track as well*
11/22 MUSC Charleston Consortium (Child Psychology)
11/11ish MercyFirst (invite sent week of 11/7-11/11)
11/28 MEDVAMC (Houston) - email
11/22 Milwaukee VA - email
11/29 Minneapolis VA - email
11/22 Missouri Health Sciences Consortium (VA track) - phone *11/29 invite?*
11/21 Mountain Home VA - phone
11/28 Nassau University Medical Center - email
11/17 Nationwide (Pediatric) - email
11/22 Nationwide (Child Clinical) - personal email
11/28 Nebraska Internship Consortium (NICPP) - email
11/28 NJ VA at the East Orange campus - phone
11/28 New York Presbyterian (Cornell Medical) - email
11/28 Ottawa hospital - neuropsychology - email
11/29 Ottawa hospital - track 1: mental health - email
Philhaven Hospital
11/17 Phoenix Children's - email
11/22 Pittsburgh VA - email
11/21 The Reading Hospital and Medical Center - email
11/08 Rochester BOP - mass email
11/28 Royal Ottawa Health Care Group's and at Brockville - email
11/09 Rush University Medical Center (neuropsych) - e-mail invite
11/17 Rush (Bmed) - email
11/28 Rush Medical Center Child/Adol track - email
11/21 St. Luke's Hospital (Adult general) - email ***INVITES ROLLING***
11/23 Salem VA - phone
11/29 San Jose State University - email
11/22 Sarah Reed Children's Center - phone
11/25 Sepulveda VA - email
11/28 Spring Grove Hospital - email
11/28 South Texas VA - email
11/18 SUNY Upstate Medical University, Adult Track -email
11/28 SUNY Upstate (Child) - email
11/21 University of Alabama - Birmingham (adult) and (child) - email
11/28 University of Arizona neuropsych track - email
11/17 University of Arkansas Med School (Adult)
11/18 University of Arkansas Medical Center, Child Focused Track
11/22 UCSD/VA - phone (**more calls to be made between now and Monday**)
11/07 UCSF Child and Adolescent Services
11/20 UCSF Public Services and Minority Cluster - email
11/21 University of Chicago Medical Center (Weight and Eating Disorder) and (adult neuropsych) - email
11/22 U of Chicago Medical Center - Adult track - email
11/21 U of Chicago Medical Center - child track - email
11/28 University of Delaware counseling center
11/10 University of Florida (BMed) and (neuro)- mass e-mail invite
11/15 UIC Dept. of Psychiatry (child clinical) - email
11/17 UIC (Adult) - email
11/18 University of KS- School of Medicine - email
11/21 University of Louisville SOM - email
11/24 University of Manitoba ( Health Neuro, Rural & Northern Streams) - email
11/28 University of Memphis - University Counseling Center - phone
11/28 UMiami Counseling Center - phone*11/29 phone*
11/22 UPenn (Pennsylvania Hospital) - email (*ROLLING INVITES*)
11/28 University of Rochester Medical Center Child Track - email
11/26 UT Health Science Center - email
11/21 University of Utah, Neuropsychiatric Institute - email
11/25 Vanderbilt (neuropsych) and (VA Tenn. Valley) - email
11/28 Vanderbilt (adult psychiatry - email
11/28 Western State Hospital - email
11/21 Wisconsin-Madison DOP (General Psych)
11/17 Utah State Hospital - email
11/18 VA Medical Center, Salem - phone
11/17 White River Junction VA - phone
11/21 Yale University School of Medicine (Hispanic Clinic and Outpatient Services) - phone

Sites where a rejection has already been sent
11/22 Asheville VA *11/29*
11/28 Brown (adult bmed)
11/23 Casa Pacifica
11/18 Children's Memorial Hospital
11/18 Children's Mercy
11/21 Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Child Clinical)
11/22 Cincinnati VA
11/19 Dartmouth
11/18 Denver Health *11/21 for adult*
11/27 Duke University CAPS
11/29 Edmonton Consortium
11/22 Federal Bureau of Prisons USP Hazelton, FCI Morgantown
11/22 Greystone Park Psychiatric Center
11/22 Holcomb Behavioral Health
11/28 James Madison University
11/15 Kings Country Hospital Center
11/25 Massachusetts Mental Health Center *11/27*
[COLOR="red"11/22 Milwaukee VA
11/29 Minneapolis VA - email[/COLOR]
11/22 Mt. Gretna
11/16 Nationwide Children's Hospital (Pediatric) and (Neuropsych) - mass email
11/23 Nationwide (Clinical Child)
11/23 Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology
[COLOR="red"]11/29 NY Presbyterian/Cornell
11/29 Ottawa Hospital[/COLOR]
Philhaven Hospital
11/29 Pitt VA
11/23 Portland VA
11/29 Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region
11/17 Rochester BOP
11/10 Rush University (neuropsych?)
11/17 Rush University (BMed)
11/28 San Francisco VA
11/21 Spring Grove Hospital
11/29 Stanford Counseling Center
11/21 University of Alabama - Birmingham - email
11/25 UCSD/VA - email
11/28 UNC School of Medicine (adult bmed, eating disorder)
11/22 University of Oregon Counseling and Testing Center
11/28 University of Wisconsin -- Health Psych track
11/17 Utah State Hospital - email
11/29 VA Puget Sound-American Lake
11/16 Westchester Jewish Community Services (in Spam folder)

IMPORTANT DATES:

12/15 last day for MOST interview invites notification
2/8 last day for ranking internship sites
2/24 MATCH DAY
3/1 Submission for MATCH PHASE II
3/19 Submission of ranking for MATCH PHASE II
3/26 MATCH PHASE II DAY
 
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Rejection from Ottawa Hospital. I love that the file was called "unsuccessful applicants." lol.
 
serotonin said:
so I received a notification 11/21 for an interview at University of Chicago instructing us to send in our interview date preferences (had 4 to choose from), and that they would get back to us to "confirm the date via e-mail within the next couple of days." Well, I sent off my preference that afternoon, and it's now been 8 days and I haven't heard back- is it time to re-email? I don't want to bug, but I also don't want to miss a slot due to email weirdness.
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Given how quickly dates tend to fill up, I personally would say that 8 days is enough time to have waited before sending a polite follow-up email.
 
Got an invite from MGH, Bmed elective. The email was personalized and they are doing rolling invitations.
 
RayneeDeigh said:
That's for sure!

I wish the appic website didn't choose right now to be down. I was gonna make myself an organized list of each site's notification date. :annoyed:
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I did that over the weekend while I was twiddling my thumbs... I found that while most of my sites listed 12/15 in the directory, they had something else often listed on their website or in their materials, so make you check both places (once the website is functioning again that is)! Have fun!
 
Rejection from Edmonton Consortium via a really pleasant email.

That one sucks 'cause my friends got interviews and a ton of my colleagues have gone there. 🙁
 
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything from the Boston consortium. Their APPIC page says they will usually notify by Dec. 1, but is that the date that their annual "need more time to review" email goes out, or are they not subjecting applicants to that this year🙂?

Best of luck to all!
 
Also, I know others have posted about other tracks at Duke, but one of my classmates got an interview for the Neuro track last week. Not sure the details of whether this was email or phone.
 
neuronic said:
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything from the Boston consortium. Their APPIC page says they will usually notify by Dec. 1, but is that the date that their annual "need more time to review" email goes out, or are they not subjecting applicants to that this year🙂?

Best of luck to all!
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I second this request.

Also, I just became a member of SDN, and so I wanted to post that I heard from the Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium on the 14th for an interview invite.
 
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neuronic said:
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has heard anything from the Boston consortium. Their APPIC page says they will usually notify by Dec. 1, but is that the date that their annual "need more time to review" email goes out, or are they not subjecting applicants to that this year🙂?

Best of luck to all!
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Haven't heard anything yet, but if you consider that they have 19 slots to fill, that means they need to interview a LOT of folks. That could add several days to the amount of time they need to review applications.
 
Just received an interview offer for Track 1: Mental Health (email) for the Ottawa Hospital but rejected by Edmonton 🙁
 
Last year, my rejection from the Boston Consortium came on 12/1 via email. This year, they haven't sent their thoughtful but anxiety-provoking confirmation/informational email (sent last year on 11/24). Last year, they offered interviews on 12/15 and requested that people get back to them about attending interviews by 12/10.
 
Don't know if anyone on SDN applied here, but University of Pittsburgh Counseling Center should be sending out their notifications this Friday. If I hear that changes, I will update in this thread.

Best of luck to everyone this year! 👍
 
First time posting on here since I got into grad school... eep! Been trying to stay off the site but I got too curious. Interfaith also sent out rejections. Ugh. Worst part of the process by far.
 
aesthetics81 said:
received a phone call from the director for an interview offer at the NJ VA at the East Orange campus for Friday December 9th.He said they were interview approx 10 candidates each interview day.
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Do you know if they handed out all of their interview offers today or if they are rolling?

Also, has anyone else heard about Geisinger adult track? If I haven't heard from them yet, should I assume this is a rejection?

3 rejections so far, no invites. Horrible couple of weeks.
 
Hello all! I just joined the board, but wanted to contribute my updates. I got a rejection from Minneapolis VA today via email. I also received a rejection from Milwaukee VA last Tuesday 11/22 via email. 0/2 thus far, but trying to stay positive.
 
psych0naut said:
Children's Memorial in Chicago told me they were going to send out invites today and "regrets" tomorrow: has anyone heard from them? I have not so I'm guessing it's a "no" but wanted to see if anyone got an invite yet....
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Did anybody on the board end up hearing from them today or yesterday? I still haven't.
 
PsychIntern424 said:
I second this request.

Also, I just became a member of SDN, and so I wanted to post that I heard from the Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship Consortium on the 14th for an interview invite.
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Welcome to the board🙂

Would you mind sharing if your invite to the Greater Hartford Consortium was a mass email/phone call? I applied, and haven't heard a peep! Thanks!
 
Friend of mine received a rejection from San Jose State Counseling Center. Not sure if it was email or phone, etc.
 
I just received an e-mail inviting me to the Seattle VA's open house. I also received one for American Lake earlier today.

Congrats on everyone who heard from McLean! I have not heard anything yet, so I'm assuming I'll receive a rejection but am staying cautiously optimistic.
 
Emails are out from the Seattle VA. They don't do interviews, so it's just a "you're still in the running" email.

One interesting part of the email is that they only send them out to people who they would take and make very clear that they will be ranking you.
 
I got an invite to UCSF, Public Sevice and Minority Cluster. It was personalized. I had assumed that I would not get an invite, given that they already sent invitations. Another case of not counting yourself out too early. I know this process is difficult, but we'll get through it!

Definitely excited about the invites so far. Good luck everyone!
 
westvillgrl said:
Do you know if they handed out all of their interview offers today or if they are rolling?

Also, has anyone else heard about Geisinger adult track? If I haven't heard from them yet, should I assume this is a rejection?

3 rejections so far, no invites. Horrible couple of weeks.
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Re: NJ VA, Sorry, I am not sure if they are rolling or not. good luck!
 
serotonin said:
so I received a notification 11/21 for an interview at University of Chicago instructing us to send in our interview date preferences (had 4 to choose from), and that they would get back to us to "confirm the date via e-mail within the next couple of days." Well, I sent off my preference that afternoon, and it's now been 8 days and I haven't heard back- is it time to re-email? I don't want to bug, but I also don't want to miss a slot due to email weirdness.
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I had a similar experience with that site- they didn't respond immediately to my preferences. I ended up sending another email because I had made an error on the first (way to make a great impression) and they responded very quickly to the second- it didn't even look like they had gotten the first email. Email them again is my advice
 
thank you- I did re-email. It turns out they sent a reply, but I never received itl They apologized profusely, which was sweet but not needed- email errors happen to everyone sometimes.
 
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