2014-2015 APPIC (internship) interview thread

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Invite from Aurora Mental Health Center
Track: Child
Date offered: 1/5
Personalized email

Did anyone else get a different date, or was this the only one offered to everyone?
 
FuturePhD said:
Yes, explaining this to my parents is impossible! They seem to think that I should also be able to negotiate a salary and ask for sites to pay for hotel/travel accommodations.🤔
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Or the people who think that we get actual offers from these sites, then we can just pick which one we want to go to.
 
anxietyisfun said:
....what.

Dear Applicants,

We would like to extend our deepest apologies and regrets. A significant administrative error occurred where notifications to applicants were not appropriately processed. As such, it appears several applicants received an invitation to interview for one of our internship positions; however, many invitations were sent in error. You will each receive a corrected e-mail within the next hour. Again, we are deeply sorry for this inconvenience, especially given the high anticipation that occurs within this time of the application process.

Warmest regards,

The Village for Families and Children.
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That is awful. AND then they can't even take the time to just send the individual emails clarifying the status of each applicant? They just send this mass distressing, ambiguous email? Not a great first impression for anyone applying there, to say the least...
 
nppsych said:
So it turns out I got this too - apparently on 11/19 (it went to my spam folder, but I didn't see it, even though I was checking). I have no idea what to do with this. Is it just a really noncommittal rejection or a wait list status?
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I really don't either! My mentor suggested to rank it anyway, since we have the option and to increase the probability of matching. That is assuming I would be okay with ending up on an internship at a place I did not visit.
 
PSYPAS002 said:
Or the people who think that we get actual offers from these sites, then we can just pick which one we want to go to.
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I called my mom about getting an interview on a different coast, and she asked me, "So do you think you're going to go to the interview?" I had to explain to her that interviews are like precious rare gems... you don't get one and then just say, "yeah, I'm gonna toss this one back." Ayayay. I'll be happy when this process is over and I can stop trying to explain this madness to other people.
 
Mk1000 said:
The cookie theme is cracking me up!!! Somehow, I feel bonded to you all so much more because of that. I ate cookies (they were bite-sized, those are dangerous) last night and thought of you all. :laugh:
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I propose a new format for listing invite/rejection updates:

Please include the following information
-Site name
-Date notified
-Invite or rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks)
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone)
-Interview dates offered
- type and number of cookies eaten today:
 
PSYPAS002 said:
I propose a new format for listing invite/rejection updates:

Please include the following information
-Site name
-Date notified
-Invite or rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks)
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone)
-Interview dates offered
- type and number of cookies eaten today:
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THIS. Especially on Dec. 15th!!!
 
-Site name: Kaiser Los Angeles
-Date notified: 12/9/14
- rejection
- General tracks)=
-How notified: Mass email,
 
Site: New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Notification: 12/9/14 158PM EST
Waitlist Rejection (i.e., had been put on alternate/waitlist and said they would notify us by 12/9 if we would be offered an interview as an alternate) via personalized stock email
 
Site name - Univ of Illinois Urbana Champaign
-Date notified - 12/9
-Invite or rejection - rejection (though major props to them for getting out invites and rejections within an hour of each other)
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): UCC
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Interview dates offered - :ninja:
- type and number of cookies eaten today: 0 cookies (predict 2,187 chocolate chip after this happy hour beer with a side of dissertation)
 
In case anyone was wondering how cramming for a final tomorrow + continuing to wait for last few sites was going...
(pen included for scale)
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Richmond McGuire VAMC
Invite (but they won't say which tracks applicants are being considered for until tomorrow in a separate email)
Dates offered: 1/5, 1/9, 1/12

The part of the email that cracked me up was the instructions for responding:

"Please Read These Instructions and Follow Them (it is a test)"

.....this from the site that apologized for adding to applicants' stress last Friday, then compounded it by not notifying yesterday as promised! Maybe they just have a dark sense of humor 🙂.
 
Invitation from the McGuire Richmond VA via mass email. No track specified in the email. Interview dates on 1/5, 1/9, and 1/12.
 
-Site name: Phoenix VA Health Care System
-Date notified: 12/9
-Invite or rejection: Rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): General (I applied general, but it wasn't listed in the email)
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Mass email
-Interview dates offered: N/A
-Cookies: all.
 
grrrrrhhh

I haven't heard from a few sites people posted on here.

Killing them cookies as a result!!!!
 
PSYPAS002 said:
I propose a new format for listing invite/rejection updates:

Please include the following information
-Site name
-Date notified
-Invite or rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks)
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone)
-Interview dates offered
- type and number of cookies eaten today:
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No news from sites today... but 1 cookie, 2 brownies, and 2 non-specific baked goods. That just happened.
 
Indiana School of Medicine
-12/9
-Rejection (Generalist Track with Pediatric Emphasis)
-Mass email
 
I get that sites interview a bunch of people and it takes a while to organize everything...but seriously...waiting for confirmation of interview days is a humongous pain in my patootti, especially when multiple invitations come in a day. I'm banking on getting my first choices...if I don't I'm going to have a huge issue.
 
Did anyone else get the horrible string of 5 email rejections from UCSF-SFGH CAS.....accompanied by an email from an admin worker saying "My sincerest apologies. We erroneously programmed an email to you." :wtf:This seems to be a day for program f-ups. The worst part is I worked in that same program three years ago....and the TD wrote me one of my grad school LORs. *facepalm* This process makes no sense!!! /endrant
 
Kaiser LA
Invite
Personalized (Name) Mass Email
Open House/ Interview Dates:
Tuesday, January 13, 2014
Wednesday, January 14, 2014
Tuesday, January 20, 2014
 
singasongofjoy said:
Has anyone rec'd rejections from Central Regional? Hang in there everyone, only a few more days until the 15th...
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No news yet from Central Regional...

Has anyone else not heard from Mendota? I saw that they sent out invites but I know of a peer who received what appeared to be a mass rejection yesterday.
 
-Site name: St. Vincent Hospital/Neuroscience Institute
-Date notified: 12/9
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): No track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Interview dates offered: 1/14 (they assign either a morning or afternoon slot, I received afternoon)
-Cookies: Pumpkin snickerdoodles
 
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