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I think we should also add that 40 hours week should be enforced. How can we finish our dissertation working like crazy...?
As MCParent & Jon Snow noted...great applicants can not match and have it still work out in the end. I didn't match in my first go-around either. Best of luck to everyone.
EVERYONE should take 30 seconds and sign the Occupy The Imbalance petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/psychology-internship
Wow, 1041 applicants for 222 spots.
http://www.appic.org/Match/MatchStatistics/MatchStatistics2012PhaseI.aspx


got my 4th choice, and am psyched 🙂 . It wasn't my first choice city, but was certainly my favorite or second favorite neuropsych program.
My 5 interviews were all at ivy / top tier university hospitals. In the future, do you think it would be wise to recommend people apply to a greater variety of programs? I feel lucky to have placed anywhere at all, considering the high caliber of everyone I met on interviews. It was the same people I saw interviewing at these spots over and over, and there are only so many spots to go around...
I think it's actually closer to 1500 that are eligible to compete for the 222 spots. because while 1041 were left unmatched there were 426 people that withdrew from phase 1.

Yeah, I did the math the same way. Wrong, wrong. wrong.If you count the people who withdrew from the Match in the total number of applicants, you get a match rate of 67%. 1 in 3 people who registered for the Match didn't match.![]()

I think it's actually closer to 1500 that are eligible to compete for the 222 spots. because while 1041 were left unmatched there were 426 people that withdrew from phase 1.
I was one of the unmatched so here's to hoping I can get one of those 222! 🙂 Good Luck to everyone in phase 2, I know it's difficult but we'll be ok!
Congrats to everyone that matched!!!
If you count the people who withdrew from the Match in the total number of applicants, you get a match rate of 67%. 1 in 3 people who registered for the Match didn't match.![]()
Some great sites in Phase 2! Good luck to us all 🙂
I started a discussion on the 2012 stats here. I didn't want to bog down this thread with it, but I think it is a worthwhile discussion.
The most impactful stat I've extrapolated from the released 2012 APPIC Match data: 52.2%
That is the % of registered applicants who successfully matched (Phase I) to an APA-acred internship site.
Agreed. Just glancing through the list on my phone, I saw UNC, Duke, Miami VA, Brown (this seems to be a recurring trend, as I believe they had phase II spots in 2011 and 2010 also), Baylor, and UCSF, among others.
Duke and Baylor were both in Phase II last year as well though I'm not sure if it's the same tracks (I haven't looked at the list yet)
Agreed. Just glancing through the list on my phone, I saw UNC, Duke, Miami VA, Brown (this seems to be a recurring trend, as I believe they had phase II spots in 2011 and 2010 also), Baylor, and UCSF, among others.
Good catch. I wonder if it's due to them ranking exceedingly low numbers of applicants per spot coupled with the fact that their interviewees are simultaneously being ranked highly by large numbers of other programs...?
Is the Brown spot a "research track" spot? I've heard through the grapevine that one of their research tracks is often left unfilled because they interview very few people for that particular slot. I don't know if this is true for all of their research tracks, however.
we are a step closer to being real psychologists!
and good luck!
1 in 3!!! That is so F***** up!!! That pisses me off.![]()

Yup, me too😡 What's worse is being one of the 1500 applying for the 40something APA sites left unmatched-and having 0 of them meet your training/career goals. 😱 the system sucks![]()
Looks like there are 6 VA spots left out there for you folks dead set on getting a VA internship. Good, I guess..until you relaize you are one of at least a couple hundred (out of the 1000 unmatched) that dead set on that dream.
You get the Best Use of Smilies Award for the day. 😍
I'd like to echo the congratulations for those who did match and I send all my luck to those who have yet to match.
I am one of the lucky ones (yes, I do think luck has a lot to do with it) who did match and have a question...has anyone else not heard from the site to which you matched? My understanding is that the sites should call all the students who matched at their site between 11 and 1. It's almost 2! Should I call/email my site or is that not necessary?
My thoughts are with those of you who didn't match. My own program had a few people not match and they were very, very strong applicants.
And for those of you who did, congratulations!

Now we wait for all the people who think petitioning will help change the imbalance. These of course will be cued by the discussion of professional schools versus funded university programs. I can see on some list-serves this old discussion going already.
Hey there everyone! I withdrew from the match when the time came not because I didn't have any sites to rank (I got two interviews) but because I realized that the system was deeply broken and felt that removing myself from it was the most ethical choice I could make, particularly as I have support from a local psychologist in attempting to build a local internship that will eventually apply to become accredited. So basically I thought it would be better to try to get another internship going as a way to address the problem in a small way


I didn't match, 2nd year in a row. I'll see what's available in Phase II, talk to the director of my program about my options, and maybe withdraw from school (not going through the internship application process again!).
Quynh, I'm shocked that you didn't match. Good luck with Phase II and beyond.
What a bold and unselfish move to make! Kudos to you
I matched and am so relieved to finally be done with this process, as this was my 2nd time applying. I'm also thrilled about my site and location, Utah Valley University, in Orem, UT.
Congratulations to everybody who matched; I hope your internship year is productive and rewarding! To those who didn't match, I wish you the best in Match 2, or, any other goals you decide to pursue![]()
Don't give up; at least there is a match II
(Not to mention 30-60k richer, as those jobs pay unlike practica.)(Not that I've attempted to get hours for this licensure, since finding out about the option.)Thanks, Romy, for posting that. It'll be very helpful for people next year. Good luck with CAPIC next week!
Thanks but I'm pretty sick of this. 😛 I called the state licensing board and discovered that I could probably get licensed as a non-psychologist with my MA in Clinical Psychology, with 2 years of full time supervised work, and by passing the test. If I had known that when I finished classes - or if I'd even known who to call to check - I could be licensed now.(Not to mention 30-60k richer, as those jobs pay unlike practica.)(Not that I've attempted to get hours for this licensure, since finding out about the option.)
I'm probably applying to 3 programs (one adult oriented APA accredited program that I applied to in Phase I this year, one child/family APPIC member site that I applied to in Phase II last year but wasn't allowed to rank *insert virulent curses against my program's faculty here*, and one child/family APPIC member site near my husband's office that I haven't applied to before). If I get no interviews, that would be great. Clear signal that it is time to move on. If I get 1-3 interviews and the sites are okay, I still don't know if I'd be allowed to rank the 2 APPIC ones. If my program's faculty have a change of heart and allow me to "make my own" internship, that might be workable for me... But overall, I don't think I want to do this anymore.
I didn't get into psychology to be anyone's hero, for the glamourous lifestyle, or for the fame and riches but I did think I would, at some point, get some kind of positive recognition of my hard work for the field from someone I'm not related to. Hasn't happened. Haven't been paid for the majority of the services I've provided (most were practica). And even when I was paid and helped kids deal with trauma from sexual abuse, helped parents develop healthy relationships with their kids, or helped kids disclose suicidal ideation and/or hallucinations to their parents, I wasn't even paid half the hourly rate that my computer programming friends get for their freelance work setting up websites for companies, in their pajamas on their couches at home. Not a fan of psychologists right now.
*grumble grumble grumble*
How many sites are people who didn't match planning to apply to, if you've gotten that far yet?
I definitely feel you right now. I remember getting to a point after I didn't match two years ago where I wanted to scream about how much work I'd done, how much money I'd lost, how many times I'd moved, how much sleep I'd lost, how much positive feedback I'd gotten-- and I still couldn't prove to the powers that be that I deserved to be a real psychologist.
I really hope your program cuts you some slack this year, especially after the stunt they pulled last year. Perhaps if they hear this is your last real push before you take a different route, they'll be more receptive.
But, seriously, it kills me that our profession pushes out good people this way. I don't blame you for thinking of different options at this point. It just frustrates me to no end that the system fails so hard that people do have to make decisions like this.