Atlanta VA rejection:
Thank you for your Phase II application to the internship program at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. We received 178 applications for our 1 unfilled position, and we are interviewing 11 applicants. We have finalized our decisions regarding whom to invite for an interview and include in our final Phase II rankings, and I'm sorry to inform you that your name is not on the list. The decisions are not always easy, but in this limited time period for Phase II we had to make them quickly. We made substantial cuts based solely on numbers, including intervention hours, numbers of integrated reports, and experience with basic cognitive and personality assessment tools. We realize that we undoubtedly miss out on many quality applicants by doing this, but it allows us to spend more time with each remaining application and help determine fit between our training model and applicants’ interests and experience.
Good luck with the process and in the future. Our VA has hired many psychologists who did not get interviews when they applied here for internship (or did not match at all the first year they applied), so our paths may very well cross again.
