2012 APPIC Internship Application Thread

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DoctorSiggy said:
I wanted to say THANK YOU to the person- username "The Hobgoblin."🙂 Because of meeting her on this site and her kindness, she was willing to switch an interview date with me!!!!!!!!!!!
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🙂 Thanks!

Everyone's a winner in this little exchange.

This forum is awesome.
 
Just got back home from the most awful interview (I want to crawl in a hole). My nerves got the best of me - ugh!

This process is so nerve racking... that being said, has anyone heard from Mt. Sinai Adolescent Center or Youth Consultation Services? I am still waiting to hear from 8 sites. Tomorrow is going to be either really good or really bad!

Good luck everyone!! :xf::xf::xf:
 
Invitation to interview at Cal State Northridge CC. Invitation came via phone call.
 
God, all my rejections came last. It's like anyone who wanted to interview me wanted to do it ASAP and then everyone who wanted to reject me took their sweet time...

Rejection via email from Trinitas. That sucks. I liked them. That is rejection no. 6...

Cambridge Health Alliance called people, but not me... I'm gonna guess that means a rejection...

This week has been rejection week... Oh, well.

Waiting on Manhattan Psych, LIJ, and Lincoln.
 
The Hobgoblin said:
God, all my rejections came last. It's like anyone who wanted to interview me wanted to do it ASAP and then everyone who wanted to reject me took their sweet time...

Rejection via email from Trinitas. That sucks. I liked them. That is rejection no. 6...

Cambridge Health Alliance called people, but not me... I'm gonna guess that means a rejection...

This week has been rejection week... Oh, well.

Waiting on Manhattan Psych, LIJ, and Lincoln.
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Yep me too! I'm at rejection 9, but 8 interviews...so, I'm not really complaining. Still sucks.
 
dharmapsy said:
Not to sound patronizing, condescending, or trite but GOOD FOR YOU!!! The hardest part and first step toward feeling better is realizing that we can't do it alone and reaching out for help. Then to admit it to others so that they realize they're not alone is extremely courageous. I hope you realize how much strength you truly have, in spite of how this very difficult process has made you feel.

It stinks that this process makes truly capable people feel so terrible. We all are ready for this, or our programs wouldn't let us get this far. Good luck everyone😍
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That's very nice to say, thank you. I am seen as the 'calmest' person in my cohort, so when I get distressed I am lucky enough to have friends that notice and push me to take care of myself. I hope this helps other distressed folks be okay with doing the same 🙂
 
phdstudnt said:
I am definitely non-functional. As with you, I have not been this depressed in a long time. I feel spacey - so spacey that I am afraid to drive. I have zero focus. I am the lowest performer in my cohort, so I have zero desire to even interact with my closest friends at school socially. I just can't tolerate hearing about how they have 7+ interviews. I am hopeless and despondent. Every time I get a rejection email, I spend ten minutes crying. In fact, February 24th - the date - now sends me into a panic. I have always prided myself in handling extreme and even chronic stress well. Not any longer. I have reached a level of helplessness that I honestly don't think I have ever felt before... :cry:
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This process does engender a sense of helplessness. And part of gathering your professional self is getting the support and help you need from your program--maybe not other students who are preoccupied with their own fate this year, but definitely faculty and those whose professional support should come with your tuition. Also, for anyone who is facing no interview invitations this year, remember that you can act on your behalf and proactively choose to withdraw and re-group. Your graduate program has an ethical obligation to help you sort out what to do at this point and there is no dis-honor in withdrawing and focusing on a different path for next year.
 
Cmd- sorry to hear. What happened? Was it your first interview?
 
To others who received interview invites from the Ohio Psychology Internship program,

Did you respond to the TD and tell her whether you were attending/whether you preferred morning or afternoon for your interview? I responded several hours after i received the invite last week and she never emailed me back. I'm curious if others have had similar experiences. I don't want to call and be a pest, but I would like some confirmation so I can plan ahead!
 
gib85rem said:
Hello to you too! Which track are you applying to? Best of luck to you!
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I applied to both tracks and indicated a preference for Forensic. Did you apply only for BMed? I can't wait to just know the final tally and move forward!
 
docma said:
Also, for anyone who is facing no interview invitations this year, remember that you can act on your behalf and proactively choose to withdraw and re-group. Your graduate program has an ethical obligation to help you sort out what to do at this point and there is no dis-honor in withdrawing and focusing on a different path for next year.
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This is an interesting suggestion. I told myself if I don't get any interviews I would not withdraw and I would rank at least 1 site in order to be counted so the numbers truly reflect how dismal this process is. People who withdraw from the match are not counted in the match percentages, right? My understanding is that as terrible as the match percentages are, they are slightly inflated because people who do not receive interviews often withdraw so they aren't counted in the "not matched" numbers.

With that said, I do think there is something to be said for taking care of your own well-being and mental health. I agree, there is nothing wrong with withdrawing and deciding what is best for you.
 
Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan (not Pueblo)
Patton State Hospital
Napa State Hospital

Also, I know Columbia University Medical Center has sent out invites - anyone gotten a rejection? Still waiting to hear something from them as well.
 
Thank you to those of you who responded to my request for advice about my scheduling dilemma! Your input was helpful!
 
RileyG said:
This is an interesting suggestion. I told myself if I don't get any interviews I would not withdraw and I would rank at least 1 site in order to be counted so the numbers truly reflect how dismal this process is. People who withdraw from the match are not counted in the match percentages, right? My understanding is that as terrible as the match percentages are, they are slightly inflated because people who do not receive interviews often withdraw so they aren't counted in the "not matched" numbers.

With that said, I do think there is something to be said for taking care of your own well-being and mental health. I agree, there is nothing wrong with withdrawing and deciding what is best for you.
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Yes, I think that staying in the hunt and living with that stress and outrage while you wait to rank for many weeks is a hardship you don't have to choose. If the feedback from this process, random and brutal as it is, is that this year you have very limited choices if any, then why not withdraw, complete the dissertation, find work that has some satisfaction and income in it if you can, and re-enter the fray with most of the work done and your options improved in some ways. Down the road almost no one will know or care or ask about when you "matched."
 
docma said:
Yes, I think that staying in the hunt and living with that stress and outrage while you wait to rank for many weeks is a hardship you don't have to choose. If the feedback from this process, random and brutal as it is, is that this year you have very limited choices if any, then why not withdraw, complete the dissertation, find work that has some satisfaction and income in it if you can, and re-enter the fray with most of the work done and your options improved in some ways. Down the road almost no one will know or care or ask about when you "matched."
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I agree with you for the most part. Can't you do all those things and still submit rankings? Please correct me if I'm missing something...
 
081103 said:
Cmd- sorry to hear. What happened? Was it your first interview?
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First interview... and it was a group interview. The staff asked us why we wanted to be at the site and then we had to conceptualize a case. That was it for questions. Is that normal? I thought they were going to pose more questions. That was the interview. 2 questions. I totally froze when conceptualizing my case. And then after I flubbed, it got the best of me. I sounded like a complete ditz. ugh. I am so embarrassed 🙁

Sorry to vent!
 
MonkeysUncle said:
Let's hear people's coping strategies for dealing with rejection/anticipation of rejection this week. For me, it's a steady mix of Lego Harry Potter on the Wii, Reddit, coffee, tea, excessive sleeping, bouts of exercise, and gin martinis. Also some serious procrastination in regard to my dissertation. How are you guys dealing?
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I wikipedia everything like the movies I'm semi-watching (leave it in the background while I'm working) and their actors, directors, producers. For example, HBO here in Asia has been doing a James Bond movie each night, so I would read about the author of the books, Sean Connery, which lead to reading about Leonard Nimoy (who is also 80 wow!), then William Shatner, etc etc.

I also read various forums. I even started to go to the pre-allo forum when this forum is dead. Funny thing is I joined a thread on cheating, and now I have a business idea hehehe. hope no one steals in the next 10 years.

If I'm really bored, Angry birds or PvZ. If the workers here at the mental hospital I'm at convince me, we go to a karaoke place (very big in Vietnam, I live next to several, and the walls are thin, I hear them sing every night until midnight).

Right now, just too busy with my projects and dissertation to really be depressed with rejections/anticipation. I have four left to hear from, and two of them have already sent invites.

13 completed apps - 6 interviews - 5 rejections (including an incomplete app) - waiting on 4 (one was one incompleted, but I sent supplement in late, so not sure if still being considered)
 
First interview... and it was a group interview. The staff asked us why we wanted to be at the site and then we had to conceptualize a case. That was it for questions. Is that normal? I thought they were going to pose more questions. That was the interview. 2 questions. I totally froze when conceptualizing my case. And then after I flubbed, it got the best of me. I sounded like a complete ditz. ugh. I am so embarrassed 🙁
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That's too bad. A faculty member at my program was discussing interviews and made the point that if sites do things like that, probably you don't want to be spending a year of your life there anyway - made me feel a little better about the process. The first one is kind of practice anyway, it will get easier from here (that's what I'm telling myself anyway).
 
RileyG said:
I agree with you for the most part. Can't you do all those things and still submit rankings? Please correct me if I'm missing something...
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Yeah, you absolutely can do all those things (except withdraw) and still submit rankings. It's true that people withdraw every year because they don't get any interviews and so the Match percentages are a bit inflated because they don't count the people who withdrew.

If you withdraw, you can withdraw just for Phase I or for both Phase I and Phase II. (I guess people who changed their minds about participating this year would withdraw from both, as it seems unduly limiting otherwise... You don't know which sites will be available in Phase II until Phase I is over.)

I'd encourage people to participate in submitting rankings for the match if they already paid for the match fees in order to more accurately represent the match imbalance. However, if it's at the cost of your wellbeing, it's not worth it. (If it's not impacting your wellbeing, then use your $130 to make a difference for future applicants and the field!)
 
MonkeysUncle said:
Let's hear people's coping strategies for dealing with rejection/anticipation of rejection this week. For me, it's a steady mix of Lego Harry Potter on the Wii, Reddit, coffee, tea, excessive sleeping, bouts of exercise, and gin martinis. Also some serious procrastination in regard to my dissertation. How are you guys dealing?
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Angry Birds and chocolate
 
Am I the only one who finds angry birds extremely frustrating? haha
 
RayneeDeigh said:
Am I the only one who finds angry birds extremely frustrating? haha
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How could I forgot...fruit ninja! but I only play that on my phone, which is currently off since it doesn't work abroad. love that game!
 
generic rejection email from Tuttleman (Temple) Counseling Center about an hour ago and personalized letter sent to my apartment rejection from Norwich University this afternoon. Starting to feel sick. Two interviews (Notre Dame and Santa Ana College) and 5 rejections...waiting on 14 more.
 
Invitation to interview by mass email to North Central Bronx :laugh:
Rejection from Gouverneur (snail mail!) stating they had 120 applicants for four positions. It was a nice letter though despite its content!
 
Seaside said:
Invitation to interview at Cal State Northridge CC. Invitation came via phone call.
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What time did you get your phone call? I'm assuming they are going to be a rejection for me as I have not heard anything today from them.
 
paramour said:
:idea: Hmm, so when I apply next year, do you think "I know a Canadian" will have any pull on those sites? 😎
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LOL hell yes it will! 😛 I'll just tell them that you laugh at my jokes and they'll be like "oh, she's practically Canadian herself!" and let you in.
 
I still haven't the slightest what angry birds even is... Flock of birds flying around crapping on folks' vehicles? 😕
 
RayneeDeigh said:
LOL hell yes it will! 😛 I'll just tell them that you laugh at my jokes and they'll be like "oh, she's practically Canadian herself!" and let you in.
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Excellent! I was contemplating whether it would even be worth it to apply to the few that are APA-accredited that I'm interested in or whether I would be laughed right out the door before I even submitted my application materials. 😛 I'll just have you write one of my LORs and I'll be good to go!
 
Has anyone heard from the VA Hudson Valley Healthcare System? I am fairly sure that it is a separate site than the Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital whose internship program closed, but no one has mentioned it on studentdoctor yet, and I'm still waiting to hear back...
 
buddhachick said:
This made me laugh as I lay here watching a miserable movie in my own utter misery.
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Hang in there! I am watching Morning Glory on Netflix. It's dumb and predictable. Misery is also an option on netflix, but I can't handle that movie 😀
 
I FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

Phone call from CSU Northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of January, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!

22 apps, 1 interview, 13 rejections

Every one counts! I feel so much relief, even if it is just one.
 
eudaimonpsyd said:
i finally got an interview!!!

Phone call from csu northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of january, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!
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congrats!!!!! :d
 
Has anyone heard from Miami Children's? Interviews or rejections?
 
congrats!🙂
im still waiting to hear from them as well...hope they aren't done with the calls!


eudaimonPsyD said:
I FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

Phone call from CSU Northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of January, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!

22 apps, 1 interview, 13 rejections

Every one counts! I feel so much relief, even if it is just one.
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hoosierpsyd84 said:
Hang in there! I am watching Morning Glory on Netflix. It's dumb and predictable. Misery is also an option on netflix, but I can't handle that movie 😀
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Oh my gosh, I watched that last night! Haha. Yay for mindless tv.
 
eudaimonPsyD said:
I FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

Phone call from CSU Northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of January, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!

22 apps, 1 interview, 13 rejections

Every one counts! I feel so much relief, even if it is just one.
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Congrats! As our DCT says, "You only need one internship" 🙂
 
eudaimonPsyD said:
I FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

Phone call from CSU Northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of January, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!

22 apps, 1 interview, 13 rejections

Every one counts! I feel so much relief, even if it is just one.
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Yes, every one counts!!! Good luck tomorrow!
 
eudaimonPsyD said:
I FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEW!!!

Phone call from CSU Northridge this evening. Offered various interview days throughout the first three weeks of January, can be either in person or on the phone.

Finally get to see my score improve!

22 apps, 1 interview, 13 rejections

Every one counts! I feel so much relief, even if it is just one.
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Congratulations!!! Like you said, every one counts!
 
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